RIP Tray Walker

[SpacemanSpiff]

Baltimore Ravens football player, from injuries sustained in an motorcycle accident yesterday. Age 23.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/raven ... 00407.html

[BackInTex]

This has got to be the worst paragraph ever written by a press outlet. This was the first article I found when I Googled the accident. The rest of the article is pretty bad. I think the writer was drunk.

MIAMI, FL – After a severe motorcycle accident involving an NFL player a few days ago developed into Baltimore Ravens cornerback Tray Walker in critical condition after a motorcycle crash in Miami, as of 5 p.m. ET, Walker has passed.

[SportsFan68]

The local EMTs don' call them motorcycles, it's always donorcycles. I think somebody else has mentioned this on the Bored.

I'm very sorry about Tray and about Big Ben too, although Ben did escape with his life.

I believe it's only a matter of time before the NFL starts writing "No motorcycles!" into contracts.

[Estonut]

I believe it's only a matter of time before the NFL starts writing "No motorcycles!" into contracts.

Most already do. I remember reading about this when Kellen Winslow II injured himself (ten years ago).

Section 3 of the NFL's standard player contract stipulates, in part, that a "player will not engage in … any activity other than football which may involve a significant risk of personal injury. … Player therefore agrees that club will have the right … to enjoin the player from engaging in any activity other than football which may involve a significant risk of injury."

But two league sources said Monday night that Winslow's contract includes language which is even more specific and limiting, and which expressly forbids riding a motorcycle. Many teams include such specific language in the addendums to contracts, especially those involving high-round draft choices. An agent who negotiated the contracts of some high-round Cleveland draft choices in recent years said the Browns routinely include such restrictions.

Sources: Player's contract forbids riding a motorcycle

[SpacemanSpiff]

Worse that a motorcycle, it was a dirt bike, on a public road, with no lights, at dusk, and Tray not wearing a helmet (legal or not, not bright).

And yes, most NFL standard contracts have such language about these things, including skydiving and (I presume) fireworks. Of course, the worse that could happen is to have your contract voided (that is, from the contract standpoint -- obviously, what happened to Mr. Walker was far worse than having a voided contract.)