Flying Planes or Riding Motorcycles
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by user LastRow
In the wake of Cory Lidle's tragic death the age old debate has come to the surface once again…After all, we all knew it was only a matter of time before it would. So this should not surprise us one bit that the fact that athletes and their personal hobbies away from the games they play for a living are being questioned. Flying planes or Riding Motorcycles, what’s the difference…Well, one you’re on the ground, and one you’re in the air? But in all seriousness, aren’t these one in the same risks that athletes so often love to take away from the game? The same risks professional franchises are trying to detour these athletes from doing…It’s that whole workmen’s comp. thing.
For some unknown reason, athletes can’t sit back & smell the flowers during their down time. The same challenges these guys face in their respective seasons, they enjoy challenges of a different sort during the offseason. While nobody ever has the right to tell another person how to live their life, what’s currently being questioned is what’s the difference between riding a motorcycle or flying a plane. Are the same kind of risks involved in these two leisure activities? Which is a very good question to raise, but if we start doing this for every kind of little thing, soon athletes aren’t even going to be allowed to fish. Somebody will say, “Oh, you’re going too far out in the ocean.”
Now personally, I’m not a big fan of flying…To put it bluntly, “I’m scared shitless of it.” I’m not afraid to admit it either. However, having said that, I do feel that flying a plane is a lot more safer than hopping on a motorcycle. Not everybody is disciplined enough to get the pilot’s license, and the one’s that are disciplined to get one, well that goes to show you not everyone has the ability to fly planes. Sure they’re risks flying planes, although there’s not one athletic team who doesn’t take that risk traveling from city to city, or venue to venue. Everybody in sports flies, sure usually it’s on a commercial airline or a team charter, but the risks don’t change. If something bad happens as it did yesterday it’s beyond your control.
Whereas riding a motorcycle it’s thought of as more a badboy/daredeveil risk. What’s the one purpose of a motorcycle, to go fast, right? However, so many factors can contribute to frighten outcomes on a bike. First of all, it’s not that difficult to get a motorcycle license…That’s if the respective operator of the bike has one at all? Secondly, it’s hard enough to drive a car on the roads today with so many unqualified drivers, so knowing this to start, you’re going to hop on a motorcycle? Now yes, on a motorcycle one is always in control, but it goes back to my two previous points…Are you qualified enough to handle it? We’ve seen so many that aren’t, not just limiting this to athletes here. Why, we’ve seen some people can’t even handle it in an empty parking lot for God’s sake, never mind the open road.
Bottom line here, when dealing with motorcycles, more times than not it’s usually driver error, (for whatever reason) the could’ve prevented something from happening. Unlike, in the sky where more times than not up there it’s out of the pilot’s hands…If it’s going to go down like in Cory’s case, there was probably little that he could’ve done to save himself. Likely had nothing to due with lack of knowledge or pilot error as typically we tend to find in motorcycle accidents amongst athletes….Although in these cases, the one thing that they can do to save themselves is not hop on the bike in the first place.
I could go on and on about how flying is a safer hobby than to get on a motorcycle, but everybody has an opinion out there relating to this topic…What’s yours? RIP Cory
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