What kind of parents name their son Evel, especially with a last name like Knievel?
Well... if you would WATCH THE MOVIE...
Wicki-Wicki wrote:
After a police chase in 1956 in which he crashed his motorcycle, Knievel was taken to jail on a charge of reckless driving. When the night jailer came around to check the roll, he noted Robert Knievel in one cell and William Knofel in the other. Knofel was well known as "Awful Knofel" ("awful" rhyming with "Knofel") so Knievel began to be referred to as Evel Knievel ("Evel" rhyming with "Knievel"). He chose this misspelling because of his last name and because he didn't want to be considered "evil".
Well, Knievel is dead. That certainly counts against him. I was never alive for Evel Knievel's height of badassdom, but I would still have to say Norris is the more badass. Norris actually has martial arts skills and is pretty well built, Knievel's claim to fame was just putting his own body on the line, which I just do not see as being particularly badass. I really do not see any competition here.
A factoid which I first heard from my babysitter when I was around 7. That's what happens when your babysitters are a family of bikers....
I have lots of childhood Evel Knievel memories.
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I remember seeing commercials for that. Looked almost as cool as the Easy Bake Oven!
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