Change your Evel ways
College football should dominate your TV time this afternoon, meaning TiVo is the perfect device to capture, save and review later the specials that are coming up on Evel Knievel, thanks to ESPN Classic.
From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, ESPN Classic will rotate two shows in honor of the daredevil who died Friday at the age of 69.
"The Impossible Jump" (10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.) is a half-hour show that focuses on Mike Metzger's attempt to jump the fountains at Caesar's Palace, which Knievel attempted in 1967 and ended in a spectacular rubbery crash. Included in this show is plenty of footage from Knievel's Caesar's Place jump and interviews with the daredevil.
"Touch of Evel" (10:30 a.m., noon and 1:30 p.m.) is another half-hour documentary on his life, where friends and family talk about him, and his jumps at Snake River Canyon and Wembley Stadium are replayed.
Seems you gotta go out to the video store if you want to find the George Hamilton 1971 movie, "Evel Knievel," which is how most of us Baby Boomers really got to know him and consider him the real X Games athlete.