Evel Knievel has died, He was 69 years old

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Posted by TigerClaw on Nov-30-2007 21:39:

Evel Knievel has died, He was 69 years old

The famous daredevil Evel Knievel has died, He was 69 years old.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...l.ap/index.html

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CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.

Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.
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Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.

Immortalized in the Washington's Smithsonian Institution as "America's Legendary Daredevil," Knievel was best known for a failed 1974 attempt to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a spectacular crash at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. He suffered nearly 40 broken bones before he retired in 1980.

Although he dropped off the pop culture radar in the '80s, Knievel always had fans and enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in recent years. In later years he still made a good living selling his autographs and endorsing products. Thousands came to Butte, Mont., every year as his legend was celebrated during the "Evel Knievel Days" festival.

"They started out watching me bust my ass, and I became part of their lives," Knievel said. "People wanted to associate with a winner, not a loser. They wanted to associate with someone who kept trying to be a winner."

His death came just two days after it was announced that he and rapper Kanye West had settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel's trademarked image in a popular West music video.

Posted by Spacey Orange on Nov-30-2007 21:40:

Nooooooooooooo!

Posted by Amduscias on Nov-30-2007 22:15:

omfg nooooooooo

Posted by stren on Nov-30-2007 22:40:

wow I thought he was younger

Posted by L.E.N. on Nov-30-2007 22:45:

RIP

Posted by nchs09 on Nov-30-2007 22:48:

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Posted by Abercrombie on Dec-01-2007 00:26:

Natural Causes? Where's the drama? Worst stunt ever.

fail.

Posted by jupiterone on Dec-01-2007 00:36:

Damn...

R.I.P

Posted by Darkarbiter on Dec-01-2007 00:38:

This is an actual person! Wow! I thought it was just a joke name...

Posted by Ian on Dec-01-2007 00:44:

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter
This is an actual person! Wow! I thought it was just a joke name...

jebus.

Posted by BTG on Dec-01-2007 00:55:

he lived a lot longer than he should have.

Posted by DigitalPhoenix on Dec-01-2007 02:43:

shit...mad respect for that good old boy:
he knew what he wanted and it made him happy..no matter how many broken bones

thanks for the thrills - RIP

Posted by Krypton on Dec-01-2007 02:48:

WOW. Yesterday, I heard Evel on the morning radio show here in tampa doing an interview about his settlement with kanye west. Weird..

Posted by Cloudburst on Dec-01-2007 02:48:

I recognize the name, but I had no idea who he was or if he was even a real person.

Posted by Lira on Dec-01-2007 04:34:

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Originally posted by Cloudburst
I recognize the name, but I had no idea who he was or if he was even a real person.

Posted by shaw on Dec-01-2007 08:00:

4:1 odds on wayne newton dying tomorrow in a motorcycle stunt.

Posted by chach on Dec-01-2007 19:50:

Posted by woscar on Dec-02-2007 02:06:

Fuck, this sucks. The man was and always will be a legend.

Posted by BeatFreak on Dec-02-2007 17:38:

he jumped the pear;y gates

Posted by Jarvmeister on Dec-02-2007 22:18:

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Originally posted by woscar99
Fuck, this sucks. The man was and always will be a legend.

He wasn't a legend when he was two years old.

Posted by DJ Shibby on Dec-03-2007 01:40:

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Originally posted by woscar99
Fuck, this sucks. The man was and always will be a legend.

Only because he had the balls to do what most of us don't: live.