Question of the Day - 23 September 2021

Sure. Here’s a recap of Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel's most memorable moments in Las Vegas. 

First, lore has it that he was in Vegas to attend a fight at Caesars in late 1967. Laying his eyes on the fountains out front, it was love at first sight and he knew he had to jump over them, which he attempted less than two months later. 

Probably the most famous stunt performed in Las Vegas was, indeed, Knievel’s attempt to make a motorcycle jump 150 feet over the fountains at Caesars Palace on December 31, 1967. He cleared the fountains, but fell a little shy of the target on the ramp. His head-over-handlebars crash was captured by his then-wife Linda, who was filming the event. The accident didn’t kill Knievel, but he sustained numerous injuries and was in a coma for a month. Did it stop him from ever jumping over stuff on a motorcycle again? Hardly! Mere months later, Knievel attempted another jump in Scottsdale, Arizona. Broke a leg in that one. 

Sin City didn't come into play in Knievel's life for more than 20 years. In 1999, he married his long-time girlfriend -- on a platform at the Caesars fountains.

Evel was certainly watching when his son Robbie successfully jumped the Caesars Palace fountains in 1989. Robbie dedicated the jump to his father.  

And another of Evel's sons, Kelly, is a co-owner of Evel Pie, a pizza place on Fremont Street that features some Evel Knievel memorabilia and a rock 'n' roll theme. It opened in 2016, long after Evel passed away from pulmonary disease in 2007 at the age of 69. But his name, fame, and legacy live on there -- and will, reportedly, soon as well at the museum when it arrives. 

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