RIP Evil Kinevil

“Not the way I thought he would go out

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/11/30/kneviel.ap/index.html?cnn=yes”

“I remember him well, even his interviews by Howard Cossell.

Christ, he wasn't that much older than me.”

“How many cars will the hearse jump on the way into the cemetery?”

“Pulmonary fibrosis sucks. RIP dude.”

“Who?”

“My road-trippin' buddies and I were in Butte, Montana in August 1974 and waited for Evel Knievel to show up for rumored a pre-jump party.

Butte was loaded with motorcycle and other travelers who had heard of Knievel's boast to "drink the town dry" starting at the Freeway Tavern(I think that was the name).

He finally showed up with Bobby Riggs and the free beer commenced to flow.
Until then people were pretty stingy and nursed their beers..........."where is that S.O.B.?"

Within minutes the floor was wet with beer.
I have a 6' 8" wingspan and offered my services to pass the six packs from the bar on out to the eager party-goers and help get this thing going.
At first the bartender looked skeptical but quickly realized that I was doing a public service.
"Hey man, Evel is payin'!!"

My buddies and I shook hands with Evel and Bobby and swilled some beers. We then filled our army jacket pockets with as much beer as we could carry and saddled up the sickles and headed east to a place where we had been camping for a few nights.”

“Right, Tilt, and you remember Capt Kangaroo and Howdy Doody:)”

“Wow i remember watching his stunts when i was a little kid(the grand canyon) My family would gather around the TV and watch. He is part of my childhood memories.
so sad.

fly on dude!”

“YO X, the correct spelling in your link.


Ha ha ha ha !!!

Yo Maple, it was the Snake River Canyon.”

“Popped the chute before clearing the tower.       < WINK >”

“We didn't stick around for the stupid canyon jump, just the party and then hit the road.”

“Marko had his gas tank full of cash and some weird drunk dude wearing a foot ball helmet riding bltch...”

“I used to have an Evil Kinevil action figure! of course I was about 8 at the time Marko was swilling beer with the dude.”

“That is pretty cool it just made me think of easy rider.”

“I had that action figure too Roam. Had a motorcycle with it.”

“Evel was wearing something that looked like Elvis Light and carrying a cane with a glass door knob on top.

It couldn't have been a diamond...............nah.”

“Ride into the sunset, after jumping 10 cars of course.”

“Yes MarkO, it was a diamond studded walking stick with bourbon in it. (I believe he made that claim himself.)

When I was a kid we used to copy Evil all the time, including many of the injuries, lol.

When I was in 5th grade and my younger sister was in third, she had a handicapped friend who used to ask me questions constantly whenever I would see the two of them together. I always answered his questions with outrageous fabrications beginning with my name: Evil Knievil. For the next two years whenever he saw me at school he would politely say, "Hi Evil!"”