DALLAS — They have been blamed for hundreds of visits to emergency rooms, banned from airplanes for spontaneously combusting batteries, investigated by a federal agency and pulled from some online stores due to safety concerns.
Once a curiosity and a craze, hoverboards have officially become a controversy as 2015 comes to a close. And, odds are, at least a few players on your favorite college football team use them regularly for transportation.
“I can hover around very smoothly,” said Alabama linebacker Reggie Ragland, who bought his hoverboard from a friend earlier this year. “It’s cool to me that I can roll everywhere instead of walk sometimes.