Steelers QB Roethlisberger May be OK After 7 hours of Surgery Following Crashing his Suzuki Hayabusa, (0=139mph in the 1/4 mile), Riding Without a Helmet.

Athletes by their very nature tend to be risk takers...According to a report in Psychology Today, researchers believe this behavior is more than a simple death wish. The need to take risks may be something addictive deep in their brains linked to arousal and pleasure.

In the 60's and 70's, we called it "danger-fucking."
Some of us survived more or less intact.*

*(By "intact" I mean a person still able to count all his fingers and toes and not spend all of his time doing it over and over again.)