The fountains at Caesars Palace have held a mystical and myth-making fascination for some unknown reason with daredevils, stunt guys and motorcycle mavericks. Maybe it’s the spectacular setting at center Strip? Maybe because the legend has played out with Caesars and Cleopatra and the 200,000 spectators who pass by each day? Maybe its because Caesars has always prided itself as the Vegas home of unique and unusual sporting events?

Luxe Life has learned that the FOX TV network has been in on-going talks with Robbie Knievel who is following in the footsteps of his legendary stuntman father to reprise his 1989 motorcycle jump across the top of the fountains.

Robbie executed it perfectly to honor his father who had failed the same ill-fated jump 22 years earlier on New Years Eve 1967 for an ABC-TV broadcast. (Fun fact: actress Linda Evans was the camera girl back then because she was married to John Derek who was the stunt’s director!) Now Robbie wants to do it again this coming New Years Eve as part of FOX’s New Years Eve spectacular live broadcasts stretching from Times Square New York to Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.

“Evel was without doubt the daredevils daredevil and still a gentleman with a heart of gold,” said Caesars President Gary Selesner when Evel died just after Thanksgiving last year. Robbie became the first person to clear the famous fountains and was followed by American Freestyle Motocross X-Games champion Mike Metzger who became the first rider to complete a backflip over them.

I met Mike, complete with him showing the word PAIN tattooed inside his mouth, back in May 2006 at Caesars when he also set the record for distance landing 125 feet from takeoff. (For the record that was beaten with a backflip and a 160-foot jump, but not at Caesars by Jeremy “Twitch” Sternberg.)

Details haven’t been released yet but Robbie wants to make his new jump even more unique and special to guarantee a New Years Eve ratings winner for FOX. He’ll also be competing with NBC’s Carson Daley who will be anchoring the Peacock Network’s live telecast from Times Square that is also planning Vegas live segments to bridge the three-hour time difference between the two coasts!

Robbie, who rides high-performance Honda CR-500 motocross bikes, has set 20 world records with over 250-spectacular jumps including the 1999 Grand Canyon jump of 28 feet. over a 2,500-foot deep gorge, a jump his father wanted, planned but was never able to get permission for. Earlier this year he successfully jumped over 24 Coca-Cola truck cabs at Kings Island in Cincinnati, cleared 21 Hummers at the Texas Motor Speedway in June and earlier this month cleared 25 Dodge vehicles at the Six Flags amusement park in St. Louis.

At his newly located workshop and headquarters in Western Pennsylvania, the 46-year-old motorcycle daredevil, known as “Kaptain” is laying out various super-scenarios for the hoped for jump. I’m told he still has two more jumps planned before thinking of retirement to recognize his father’s daredevil skills. He still wants to jump the Snake River Canyon near Twin Falls, Idaho where his father failed in 1974 on a rocket-cycle. My neighbor here, Bob Arum who heads Top Rank Productions was a partner in that closed circuit PPV TV event. He also wants to beat the near record his dad almost achieved in London’s Wembley Stadium on May 26, 1975 jumping over 13 London red buses before crashing! Both final challenges he’ll face during 2009. Meantime, he’ll open a sportsbar and museum in Daytona Beach this fall and if successful there he’ll consider a Vegas opportunity for it too.

Luxe Life will keep you posted as the plans progress for the amazing New Years Eve televised center Strip spectacular