Seattle Seahawks Running Back Crashes Corvette Leaving Practice
The NFL can’t catch a break. Even when their players are behaving themselves there always seems to be some kind of trouble. Come to think of it, that has something to do with the league itself–the NFL is able to turn a player honoring his cancer victim father(himself a NFL player) into a ‘discipline issue’. In Fred Jackson’s case, however, it looks like he has to own this one himself.
Jackson crashed his black Corvette into a ‘planter box and a stop sign’ after leaving practice on Tuesday. Early indications suggested that Jackson had been ‘street racing’ with teammate Marshawn Lynch but according to Renton,WA police there was no evidence that this was the case. Jackson says that he ‘lost control’ of his car–an easy thing to do in a vehicle with the horsepower and torque of the Corvette–and it was just a boneheaded mishap. The Corvette suffered what the cops described as ‘moderate front end damage’ while Jackson was uninjured.
The police found nothing to be suspicious of during the stop and indicated that Jackson couldn’t have been more cooperative: “As of this time, there is no indication that Jackson was racing another vehicle. He remained on scene until officers could speak to him. He was polite and cooperative.” Jackson sent out a Twitter update that suggested that some may have had the perception he was racing after Marshawn Lynch and other teammates stopped to check on him. Even in a league full of reprobates where it is hard to give misbehaving players the benefit of the doubt that explanation not only sounds plausible but downright obvious. A bigger news story would have been if his teammates *didn’t* stop to check on Jackson following the crash. Jackson eventually drove off in the Vette which was no doubt less aerodynamic than before the incident.
Jackson is a well traveled NFL veteran that was unexpectedly cut by the Buffalo Bills before the start of the season. The Seahawks picked him up to provide running back depth behind Lynch but he has seen little action. He’s been used mostly in third down situations.