Tempting the negation of the negation?

During my month-long crash course in film school, Warren Etheredge introduced us students to a term called "negation of the negation." It represents a twist in a film which takes place after the protagonist enters the cave scene - and this event basically makes the cave even deeper. The accompanying statement Warren posed was "if you think THAT was bad, check this out!"

Now to the part of this post which might lose my creative colleagues...

Reading an article today about Michael Schumacher (7x F1 World Champion), it looks as though he was considering a temporary comeback in Formula One. This was due to Ferrari Felipe Massa's injury at the Grand Prix of Hungary (which is one of the craziest things I have ever seen in motorsports). Anyhow, Schumacher revealed that a neck fracture he suffered in a crash last year during a motorcycle race. Wow, really? REALLY? You survive 15 seasons (7 championships, 91 wins!), make $800m and survive a pretty bad crash in a profession where you're hurdling yourself around a track at speeds up to 200mph (320kM) in a carbon fiber cart that weighs less than 1k pounds and you feel you haven't tested fate enough? Don't have your fix quite yet?

One more...

Tedy Bruschi wins 3 Superbowls with the Patriots, survives a STROKE (!) at the age of 32 and turns down an exec job with the Patriots to KEEP PLAYING. Are those 3 kids not enough to stay home? How about the two Pro Bowls you made?

Are these guys so wrapped in these professional personas (dangerous, at that) that they can't cash it in and start a company or something? If I were writing a script, these stories would provide some nice material for the "negation of the negation."

I'll spare you any mention of Brett Favre. Oops - sorry.