Let's trade for him while he's real cheap, then we won't need that Bush fellow. (I tend to be suspicious folx named Bush, or Dick ftm ).
So just because he predicted what you would do, you do it? He wasn't bashing UT or anything, you did. But it's all good.
mar1juana should not be a reason to get kicked out of playing pro ball. I know it's in the rules...but it's still dumb. It's not perfomance enhancing. ANd it's not like every other player is a stellar role model. Free Ricky!
With all the "stellar human beings" getting in trouble every year for things that actually affect people, the league sure doesn't do much to them. Maybe it's just because ESPN chooses to cover Ricky more... I just think it's ridiculous that he's the guy everyone talks about. You're telling me Ricky Williams is the biggest drug user in the NFL? Yeah right. Not by a long shot. Oh that Ricky Williams is so gangster. He'll cap you. Maybe its his fascination with a lifestyle so close to the middle east. Does that frighten people?
Bump...I wondered why he would do this, and risk injury, but its money...Per the article, it states he hasn't earned a lot of money since 2003 (for NFL standards) and I didn't know he had that many kids... Ricky Dolphins, CFL's Argos close to agreement on WilliamsESPN.com news services The Miami Dolphins will allow Ricky Williams to play for the Toronto Argonauts as long as they have it in writing that he will be released at the end of the CFL season, the Miami Herald reported Friday, citing a source close to the Argos. The Argonauts were expected to comply with that request as early as Friday, the newspaper reported, allowing Williams and his agent, Leigh Steinberg, to neogiate a deal with the CFL team. The Herald reported Steinberg declined comment Thursday. The Argonauts secured Williams' CFL rights when the running back was suspended for a year by the NFL for violating the league's substance abuse policy. The team's training camp starts Sunday, and the team opens its regular season June 16. The Dolphins had been reluctant to let Williams play in Canada due to the risk of injury, but are apparently relenting. Williams has three children and a fourth on the way and has reportedly earned $270,000 since December 2003, the Herald reported. He owes the Dolphins $8.6 million for breaching his contract when he retired in 2004. "We want Ricky back on our team," Dolphins coach Nick Saban told the Herald earlier this month. "Ricky doesn't need to go to Canada to prove anything to us." But Saban also said the Dolphins would "give him the opportunity to do it if it's something that he needed to do or really wanted to do." Williams rushed for 743 yards and six touchdowns last season.
It's strange but the jockocracy can deal with Ray Lewis and co. shanking people to death no problem, but smoke weed and do yoga? You're probably a friggin homo or something, get out of here.
Looks like it's a done deal and he's going to the CFL http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2461281 Ricky Williams has agreed to a one-year contract for $240,000 to play for the CFL's Toronto Argonauts this season, ESPN.com's John Clayton has learned. Williams will not have an option with the team and will be able to return to the Dolphins next season. The Argonauts have called a 4:30 p.m. ET news conference to announce a "major signing." Team officials wouldn't confirm that Williams' signing would be announced, but he was shown on the Rogers Center videoboard at the White Sox-Blue Jays game Sunday wearing a Toronto Argonauts hat and was introduced as the team's newest player. The holdup was finding a way to get around the CFL's contract structure. For players coming from the states, the CFL wants contracts that are one year in length but have a one-year option. Dolphins coach Nick Saban was only willing to let Williams, who is suspended from the NFL this season because of violations of the league's drug policy, play one CFL season and then come back to the Dolphins. Leigh Steinberg, William's agent, spent four days in Toronto trying to work on the language changes on the contract. A satisfactory agreement was reached Sunday morning, and Steinberg quickly completed the one-year, $240,000 deal. Williams will miss his second NFL season in the past three because of the fourth violation of the drug policy during his career. If he stays clean, he wants to play for the Dolphins in 2007 and the Dolphins definitely want him back. Williams did so well last year that Saban became a big supporter of the former University of Texas star. The former first-round pick of the Saints won't be subject to drug testing by the CFL, a league that doesn't have a drug testing policy. Williams still owes the Dolphins $8.6 million, but team may be willing to excuse a good portion of the money if he plays in the future. There has been talk Williams might do a book to raise some more cash this season. He was only scheduled to make $585,000 for the Dolphins this year. His contract is tolled until next season because of the NFL suspension. The Argonauts secured Williams' CFL rights when the running back was suspended for a year by the NFL for violating the league's substance abuse policy. The team's training camp starts Sunday, and the team opens its regular season June 16. Saban didn't confirm the signing, but issued a statement saying the team was leaving the decision to play in the CFL up to Williams. The Dolphins have supported Williams throughout the suspension, but insisted on assurances that he'd be allowed to return to the team in 2007 -- provided he's reinstated by the NFL. "We expressed to Ricky our concerns about playing in Toronto in 2006," Saban said. "We are relying on assurances made by Ricky, his agent, the Toronto Argonauts, and the commissioner of the Canadian Football League that Ricky will return to the Dolphins in 2007. "Based on these assurances and despite our concerns for Ricky playing in the CFL in 2006, we will leave it up to him to decide whether or not he will negotiate a contract to play for the Argonauts this year." Williams' $240,000 contract with Toronto would easily make him the highest-paid running back in the league. He still owes the Dolphins $8.6 million for breaching his contract when he retired in 2004. The 29-year-old Williams rushed for 743 yards last year and averaged over 4 yards a carry with Miami.
and in the "i'm totally shocked department" http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2867381 unfathomable that one could throw one's life away because of WEED.
I can't believe I'm going to defend A Longhorn....But it's obvious that football does not make ricky happy,so technically he is not throwing away his career.
If playing Pro football matter to him he would have stopped, it doesn't and he hasn't. His choice. Probably wouldn't have been a big deal to him if he didn't have so many debts
I was gonna be a 2,000 rusher until I got high I gonna workout and find the playbook but then I got high my career is still messed up and I know why - cause I got high [repeat 3X]
Why do they even test for Mary Jane anyway. Drowsiness and the munchies, now that's 2 performance enhancers right there.
I think weed should be legal. I don't smoke myself, but its mostly cause of the expense and the fact I hate to cough. I'm a drinker myself. But my pot smoking friends always insist to me that weed has NO addiction potential, yet they inevitably get "headaches" and "stomachaches" when they are out. And Ricky just tossed away multi-million career because of it. Sounds like addiction behavior to me.
Legalize it, sell it in liquor stores to those over 21 in packs of 20 cigarettes like tobacco, and tax the living hell out of it. Watch the tax coffers grow tenfold. When it comes to drug and sex laws, the USA is stuck in the 17th century.
