This guy is amazing he looks like Earl Campbell's son. Anyone else going to be watching? He is still smoking bud and he doesn't care what anyone thinks about him. If someone has started a thread on this please delete.
Earl Campbell's son lives across the hall from me at my dorm complex. He looks nothing like Ricky Williams.
UT IS THE DEVIL AND RICKY WILLIAMS RAPES NUNS TWICE WEEKLY Just wanted to get that in ahead of the Rice alumni brigade.
he is an interesting person. It seems like first he left because of the weed smoking being made public. but now he seems content with his life. good for him even if he is a little off his rocker
Since people are eagerly awaiting my response, let's examine Ricky for a second. 1. He's fathered 3 illegitimate children 2. He uses illegal drugs 3. He quit his job and let down his team 4. He attended college, yet never got his degree 5. He was a good football player You can draw your own conculsions about him, those are just the facts.
Exactly. All we know about this person is what the media cares to share about him. It's easy for people to assume what kind of person he is, but they have no idea what they're talking about. It'd be like me assuming something about a male who likes to search the available males at Match.com.
I don't think people think hes a bad guy, but i think its fair for most to assume, including his teamates, that hes a huge flake.
I watched this interview with my parents, b/c they know how much I loved Ricky while at UT. They both have newfound respect for the man (minus his tendency to smoke out). As much as i defend ricky, it still hurts in my heart to know I will likely never see him play football again. but if he's happy, more power to him. he's done more in his life than i ever will... and he seems happy, something myself, and most other people, have never truly accomplished.
Damn, drapg, same story here. My family was making comments about it every time they had a commercial about the interview, but after watching it, they feel exactly the same as your family. Of course, they don't have an inferiority complex about where they went to school.
RM95 and drapg. You know I love you 2 guys as much as anyone here but I disagree (what a surprise, right?) with your view on this. I don't want to come across as judgmental, but I don't know how else to state my view on it. I guess I am like most who are still trying to make sense out of this whole bizarre situation. I watched this with my father and I feel that Williams is a bright guy, one who articulated his feelings very well. However, I do agree with the interviewer that he will be back in football because he will run out of money to keep living the lifestyle that he is currently living and loving. And maybe flake is not the right word but irresponsible instead. Fathering 3 illegitimate children with 3 different women doesn't strike many as being responsible. To make things worse, I don't know how he is going to be able to continue to support his children and the mothers of his kids. That also seems irresponsible to me. And then you have the whole thing of him "running away from his problems" and letting down his teammates and people who were counting on him. I know he said that he didn't realize that he wanted out of football 7 months earlier (when the Dolphins could actually go out and replace him) or is the real truth of what he eluded to earlier - he didn't want to get busted for failing a drug test for a 3rd time? So, I can understand why his ex-teammates feel the way they do. I am going to be a little melodramatic here but it is to illustrate a point: what he did, how is that any different from a man who has a wife and several kids and is the breadwinner of his family all of the sudden deciding that he is tired of that "lifestyle" and quits his job and leaves his family to go live in a tent in Australia?
Sad but true - #'s 1, 2, 4, and 5 are true for many, if not most, athletes in the league. Some are better players than others. Some get college degrees (probably not most). Drugs are rampant, though few are as open about using them and I doubt too many make it such a large part of their lives. Numbers of illegitimate children can vary... occasionally someone actually has only legitimate children. But you get the idea. Our "heroes" have some major failings that we usually choose to overlook or put up with. The difference between Ricky and the others is #3. Now, if he wants to spend his money on weed and waste his talent, it's fine with me... as long as it only affects him. However, he quit at the last minute on a team that had planned everything around him. And, like Manny said, he's a father. Once you have kids, those responsibilities are yours, like it or not. How do the childrens' mothers feel about all this?
