And to those who think Knievel found Jesus only because he's afraid to die, Knievel says: "Let them say what they want to say. I'm a long ways from dying."
Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
A long way, indeed. I remember watching every televised jump that there was of Knievel and probably would have sought to bronze my Daredevil Stunt Set if I wasn't too occupied with it. Probably just as well that mom & dad never let me even think of getting a motorcycle.
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