For me it was my favorurite lunch box!
For me it was my favorurite lunch box!
I had the action figure and stunt cycle set
Barracking Your Bama wrote:
For me it was my favorurite lunch box!
His idiotic and over-hyped attempted Snake River Canyon jump. It ended up making Geraldo Rivera's search of Capone's vault seem like must-see T.V.
A lot pf pain every morning when he woke up and every day until he passed. And I think he did not regret any of it. RIP.
I think of a parachute slowly descending down into the SRC.
Partying with his son and nephew back in 83-84, "partying" should be taken as an understatement.
Sitting at our kitchen table and reading about his Snake River Canyon jump in the newspaper.
Just two years ago I was in Twin Falls and saw his ramp and the little exhibit in the tourist info at the bridge.
Now hundreds jump off that bridge.
We have come a long way when it comes to stupid things.
He was big when I was in that 5-10 year old group and took it at face value that this was legitimate big deal. We also had ridiculous shows like That’s Incredible and Battle of the Network Stars. If it was on TV it was important!
It was must see TV then. If you didn’t see it live you didn’t see it all so there was an urgency to making sure you were dialed into whichever of the three networks was covering it at the exact moment it happened. It wasn’t going to show up in your news feed or be available on YouTube later.
Bad ass.
But you have to view it through the right lens. You can throw a dart and hit an MX rider today who is regularly jumping a motorcycle further than Evel ever did. But that's how most things are. Could Roger Staubach take apart a modern NFL secondary?
The Booty Hunter wrote:
Bad ass.
But you have to view it through the right lens. You can throw a dart and hit an MX rider today who is regularly jumping a motorcycle further than Evel ever did. But that's how most things are. Could Roger Staubach take apart a modern NFL secondary?
Roger Staubach would be far and away the best passer in NFL if he played today.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, 1967
Pull the other one wrote:
I had the action figure and stunt cycle set
Same. Made me want to buy a motorcycle. Making ramps and jumping over cans with my bicycle had to do until I was old enough for a motorcycle.
Bad -Ass. I believe his documentary is on Netflix. It's worth watching.
Nineteen-seventy-two I lost half of one of my front teeth on a bike jump trying to copy him.
Barracking Your Bama wrote:
What Comes to Your Mind When You Think of Evel Knievel?
The most bada$s daredevil of all time that I wanted to be exactly like, when I was 5 years old.
First thing that comes to mind when I hear his name is lots and lots of broken bones.
My grandfather, who rarely had two words for anybody, seeing him on TV and proclaiming, "what a jack-ass!"
Flagpole wrote:
This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv-ePgAhXrU
Me, too!
I wish mine wasn’t thrown out when we moved in 1984.
Actually, it was probably tossed out years before that.
Cultural phenomenon! When you could reach the world. Now the path to world fame feels easy, but isn’t.