Andrew Luck is done snowboarding. Or heli-skiing. Or tightrope-walking. Or whatever activity that might be viewed by rational humans as potentially harmful to his health of well-being.

Andrew Luck is done snowboarding. Or heli-skiing. Or tightrope-walking. Or whatever activity that might be viewed by rational humans as potentially harmful to his health or well-being.

Sunday morning before the Colts-Bengals 34-23 loss at Lucas Oil, NFL Network's Ian Rapoport raised eyebrows when he reported something the local media heard through the grapevine, but failed to confirm: Luck injured a shoulder joint during a snowboarding accident in the winter of 2016, right after the injury-marred 2015 season.

Luck insisted in the Rapoport story and then again after the game Sunday, the injury did not exacerbate the existing labrum tear in his right shoulder, not did it play a role in his extended recovery from surgery.

Whether that's the medical gospel or not, the bottom line is this: Luck should not be snowboarding. Or heli-skiing. Or tightrope-walking. Whatever. And he knows that now. Should have known it in the first place, clearly.

Asked if his snowboarding career is over, he laughed and said, "I think that's pretty obvious.''

Rapoport reported, and Luck confirmed again Sunday, that he suffered the injury to the shoulder's AC joint while snowboarding in Colorado during the winter of 2016. This was the offseason after he initially hurt his shoulder in a game against Tennessee in 2015 and then lacerated his kidney. Still, the smart guy from Stanford insisted on doing a very dumb thing: He hit the slopes.

"This was after the initial (shoulder) injury; I went back, rehabbed it with the Colts,'' he told Rapoport. "I've had a bunch of AC sprains, both left and right shoulder, and resolves that issue. But the labrum has been my issue, was my issue, what I worked through, what I got surgery on.''

He continued, "I've seen more doctors than I can count on two hands over the past two or three years and the consensus – unanimous – is that the AC is not an issue, nor did it have an effect. The labrum is an issue.''

Luck is fortunate because A) it wasn't a significant injury, or so he insists and B) his name is Andrew Luck, and management wasn't going to make a big issue of it. Now, if he was a third-string tight end…

This is part of the basic player contract:

“Without prior written consent of the Club, Player will not play football or engage in activities related to football otherwise than for Club or engage in any activity other than football which may involve a significant risk of personal injury. Player represents that he has special, exceptional and unique knowledge, skill, ability, and experience as a football player, the loss of which cannot be estimated with any certainty and cannot be fairly or adequately compensated by damages. Player therefore agrees that Club will have the right, in addition to any other right which Club may possess, to enjoin Player by appropriate proceedings from playing football or engaging in football-related activities other than for Club or from engaging in any activity other than football which may involve a significant risk of personal injury.’’

The Colts could have taken Luck to task, but did not.

It's good to be Andrew.