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Message: [QUOTE="davidkopp, post: 3666303, member: 247693"] Here's another fun story: $2 Steak Special by David Kopp I was 23 in the summer of 1979. I weighed 400 pounds and I had $400,000 in the cage at the Dunes. In other words, I was the coolest. After playing all day at the Dunes, I went downtown to have dinner with my friends. Rick Klehammer and Cissy Bottoms. We were waiting for one more person, identity long since forgotten, and then we going to eat at the Horseshoe. There was a big crowd (for 2 AM) and I quickly saw why: A silver Stutz Bearcat parked at the curb. I heard someone say it was worth $100,000. In 1979, the fanciest American cars sold for less than $25,000. The car belonged to Evel Knievel, the famous motor cycle daredevil. He was inside shooting craps. He had his body guard watching the car--- a pretty big guy… but he smelled scared to me. A young kid walked up and put one finger on the hood of the car. The bodyguard swatted the kid away and said “the next person who touches the car dies”. Being the obnoxious young man that I was, I went over and put one finger on the same spot on the hood. Just for a second. The body guard shook his head and said “touch the car again and die”. He didn’t look like much, so I walked up again and put my hand on the hood…For about 5 seconds. He went inside. I assumed he was summoning security. Two minutes later Teddy Binion came out. Laughing. He said “David, do we have a problem here?” My friends and I went inside and enjoyed the $2 steak special. My wife Madison was a 6 year old child in Chicago on that day. We were married on December 20 2013. A few weeks later at the Venetian, a guy walked up to Madison and said “Your husband is an a**&$#@.” She smiled sweetly and said “What’s your point?” [/QUOTE]

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