A Sad Goodbye to Steve-O

Rick Wilson · Post by **Rick Wilson** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:54 am

I will miss him and his shows.

AAAhmed46 · Post by **AAAhmed46** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:36 am

Does this mean all the thousands of parodies of him over the net and the media will slowly fade away into extinction?

JimHawkins · Post by **JimHawkins** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:47 am

Bill wrote: We like our puppy. Here is Maverick at 6 weeks, just before we took him home.

These days he's a bit difficult to cradle. Instead, he's taken to trying to kiss you
with these flying leaps that will knock your teeth out if you're not careful.

We're working on that...

- Bill

Great looking pup there Bill, I'm jealous.. Best of luck with him..!

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:49 pm

Adam wrote:
Maverick?

Based off the book/movie charecter?

Sort of... Based instead off the TV program, which preceded the movie by at least a generation. But it's also based upon another character that my son remembers

Here is Maverick #1

MAVERICK

U.S. Western

A subversive Western with a dark sense of humour...

The series was created by producer Roy Huggins and developed out of a story (co-written with Howard Browne) in which Huggins tried to see how many TV Western rules he could break and get away with...

The Maverick brothers were not heroes in the traditional Western sense. They were devious, cowardly card-sharps who exploited easy situations and quickly vanished when faced with potentially violent ones....

The series also reveled in colourful characters as well as presenting wild parodies of other TV programs of the period....

- The Museum of Broadcast Communications

And you may recognize the fellow who replaced him in the series. He later made his name with another macho role.

However... This is who number 1 son was thinking of when he thought the name up.

Ultimately the name stuck because of the underlying meaning.

someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

- Bill

Glenn · Post by **Glenn** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:51 pm

Here are someinteresting looks at Irwin's influence:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/0 ... index.html

AAAhmed46 · Post by **AAAhmed46** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:32 am

http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/news/in ... 450213.htm

Because this is just what steve wanted...

Uechi Dude · Post by **Uechi Dude** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:12 pm

It was one of the saddest days of my life....I still cannot believe he is gone.

TSDguy · Post by **TSDguy** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:05 pm

AAAhmed46 · Post by **AAAhmed46** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:13 am

So...he could roll?

JimHawkins · Post by **JimHawkins** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:23 pm

AAAhmed46 wrote: Because this is just what steve wanted...

Obviously...

TSDguy wrote:

Steve doing MAs too... What a power house he must have been, with all that energy.. How cool is that!

I thought I saw him using grappling moves on Crocks, thought it was a coincidence, apparently not..

Thanks for posting that....

F'in amazing guy...

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:31 pm

I've watched Steve's show for years. I've also been a martial arts instructor since 1978. I've taught and physically manipulated literally thousands of human bodies through the years.

After a while, martial artists with the kind of experience I have begin to size people up pretty quickly just by the way they hold themselves and move. Watching Steve move on his show just when fooling around was amazing. The one guy I can think of who moves similarly - like a monkey at times - is Joey Pomfret.

And there are very few humans built as compactly as SteveO.

So am I surprised to seem him grappling or doing what appears to be some "casual Muay Thai?" Nope... And when you think about it, any man who loves to grapple with wild animals is going to consider a martial artist playing games in the gymnasium as "warmup."

Wish I had him as a student or - better yet - a personal friend.

- Bill

AAAhmed46 · Post by **AAAhmed46** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:57 pm

Ive only seen clips of his show(I dont have cable)

He certainly was a strong man no doubt.