[X&Y] "Do You Know Who The Hell I Am?"
Published: Fri, 08/25/23
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“DO YOU KNOW WHO THE HELL
I AM?”
It was late afternoon on October
25th,1975. Every one of my school-
aged friends and I were glued to
our television sets.
Evel Knievel was about to jump
14 Greyhound buses.
And he did so, successfully…just
three short months after crushing
his pelvis and breaking who-knows-
how-many other bones in a failed
attempt to jump double-deckers
at Wembley Stadium in London.
As soon as the broadcast was over,
all of my buddies and I simultaneously
burst out of our front doors scrambling
for our bicycles.
We had to go jump curbs and stuff,
even though dusk had fallen and it
was cold outside.
My guess is that every pre-teen boy
in the United States was doing the
same thing.
Indeed, the jump had resulted in the
highest-rated telecast in the history
of ABC’s Wide World of Sports.
If you’re not old enough to remember
Evel Knievel, you’ve at least heard of
him.
He was one-of-a-kind and there will
never be another like him.
Even later, in a world of next-
generation daredevils like Travis
Pastrana, Felix Baumgartner and
even Knievel’s own son Robbie,
not even Nitro Circus has ever
captured zeitgeist in a bottle in quite
the same way.
The guy was an “a-list” celebrity by
every definition of the word. There
were television appearances and
full-length motion pictures.
There was even an entire line of
Evel Knievel toys that bore his
household name. They flew off the
shelves.
In retrospect as an adult man, I fully
realize that such fame didn’t come to
him simply because he jumped his
motorcycle.
More so, it was the sheer IDGAF
swagger with which he carried
himself.
He was known for saying what he
was going to do, and then doing it.
In 2002, long after Evel Knievel’s
heyday, sports talk show host Jim
Rome scored a rare radio interview
with him.
During the segment, the infamous
1974 attempt to jump the Snake River
Canyon with a rocket-powered
“Skycycle” came up.
When asked what he thought his
chances were of surviving the jump at
the moment he strapped in, Evel
answered, “50/50”.
When Rome challenged why in the
world anyone would try that jump
against those kind of odds, there was
a deafening three seconds of radio
silence.
Evel then calmly, but sternly delivered
his now legendary response.
“Do you know who the hell I am?”
Jim Rome, normally one of the most
brash and cocky figures in sports
journalism, was left nearly speechless.
Robert Craig Knievel, the man, was no
doubt a bit of an anti-hero. He was a
substance abuser and was once jailed for
assault.
But he knew who the hell he was.
Infamously, women loved him for it…even
physically, by the thousands.
Indeed, it wasn’t just the motorcycles, the
buses and the broken bones that captured
everyone’s imagination.
There was just something about that guy.
He was about as close to Invincible as
they come.
Evel Knievel died on November 30th, 2007
of natural causes at age 69. He had stared
death in the eye his whole life and lived to
tell about it. Ironically, after years of hard
livin', he essentially died of old age.
Now, you and I might not be the kind of
guys who will accept 50/50 odds on our
lives just for the thrill of jumping stuff.
But we should still know who the hell we
are.
Whatever our passions and purpose are
as a man, we should boldly, assertively and
yes…even dominantly go after them.
You may be led to believe that the here-
and-now is a vastly different world than the
one Evel Knievel thrived in
.
But I would say the more things change, the
more they remain the same.
Men who represent the Invincible spirit
exude personal power.
Not only do they lead more fulfilling lives
while holding their heads up high, they win.
They win with women, they win in their careers
and they ultimately win genuine the respect of
all around them while doing so.
Too many men are running scared nowadays.
We’ve been told our masculinity is “toxic” and
that simply being heterosexual makes us
complicit in “rape culture”.
We’ve been subtly led to feel as if “dominant”
somehow rhymes with “abusive”.
My simple question to you is this…
Are you going to let someone else brand your
identity as a man according to whatever
agenda they’re on, or do you already know
who the hell you are?
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Be Good,
Scot McKay
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