I loved watching Evel Knievel when I was a kid. There have been many daredevils, but it’s going to be a long time before anybody captures the hearts of American’s like “America’s Legendary Daredevil.”

He did everything, from jumping buses and cars to trying to jump the Grand Canyon on a rocket powered motorcycle. He jumped fountains and all sorts of things, and not only did he jump them, but he crashed to. And when he crashed it was spectacular. It’s amazing that he lived as long as he did if you think about some of the things that he tried.

Nobody was better at branding himself than Knievel. He made a fortune on his image alone - of course he risked his life to create that image, but if you ask somebody to think of a daredevil, there’s only one name that comes to mind.

Knievel’s son Robbie followed in his father’s footsteps becoming a daredevil himself. He even jumped a portion of the Grand Canyon like his father had attempted to do so long before.

Many of Knievel’s records and stunts have been broken - but nobody really cares because it’s the name and the image, the daredevil and the person that is going to be remembered.

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