Handcuffed by a Dumbass

Sounds like he's going to be fine, nothing much to worry about here.

Sounds like he's going to be fine, nothing much to worry about here.

Right. More than anything it'll just give his wife something extra to love him for. Remember chicks dig scars, they do NOT dig damaged ACLs.

Depends. I'm sure they have some kind of language but I doubt it's standard. I mean I'm sure they have things that are "unncessary risks" but I don't think that driving an ATV would qualify.

Actually driving 4 wheel ATV's is dangerous due to the high number of roll overs. Which is exactly what happend to Rabach. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported that each year 120 children die and 37,000 are injured in ATV rollovers each year. This is just children, this does not include adults.
The problem has become so bad that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is drafting new policys for ATV's like printed warnings on the ATV's and other proposals that will be in place soon.
I know about this because a friend of mine broke his back while riding an ATV. It rolled over him and he was lucky he was not paralysed.
Four wheel motorcycles are a bad idea. The wheel base is too narrow. Dirt bikes are less dangerous. I have two dirt bikes and while there is risk in riding any vehicle there are huge diffrences in the amount of risk. The injury/death stats back that up. There are probably less deaths in Sky diving and bungee jumping than ATV deaths each year in the US.

There's also less frequency of sky diving and bungee jumping than ATV driving. I'm not trying to say that ATVs aren't dangerous, I AM trying to say to let the guy live a little. This is the type of news that you only hear when it goes bad. I'm sure many of us would be appalled to know what some of our favorite players do in the offseason.

Say we had a player get chomped in a shark attack while snorkeling on vacation? The same could be said for that. Also, for the ATV rollovers, they also don't factor in good ol' safety precautions. It's just pure stats and I would almost guarantee than 90% of those accidents were caused by doing something wreckless.

Unless driving ATV's is against the law it is his business, he could of been hurt as bad or worse driving his car

I mean honestly...cant you just not do excessively dangerous things for your 10 year career? Then you can retire a multi-millionaire and ride ATVs and motorcycles for the next 40 years!

I'm going to weigh in on the "living life" side of things and say, would you rather have your fun while you're young? Sure, don't do overly stupid things, but seriously if you want someone to take ALL the chance out of their life, just tell them to stop playing the game.

you need to think about the emotional burden that is forced on these players. they really have no escapism from the game. i'm sure he's been driving atv's for a long time. just one of those freak accidents. stuff happens.

Ok, I take it he had and ATV accident. This started out like question number three and did not link an article or tell of what happened. I'm very smart so by reading all the post I figured out what happened and yes I hid my intelligence very well

I come down on the side that says this is a retarded thing to do. Malcolm, you can "live life" without doing dangerous things. There is no rule anywhere saying that in order to "live life" you have to do dangerous or risky things in which you get a rush by throwing caution to the wind. You can "live life" by jetting off to paradise and taking a 4-week beach vacation to the Carribbean. You can "live life" by going fishing or playing golf. You can "live life" by getting drunk at a party and calling a cab instead of driving home wasted. There are plenty of ways to live your life without doing dumb, risky things. I think riding ATVs is downright stupid when you depend on your physical health for your livelihood.

That said, he's only hurt for three weeks, and he'll be fine for this season. So I don't care about Rabach. I'm just arguing principle.