funny stuff. Two franchises have moved tons of picks to land this flakey, mediocre running back. Great college gamer though. Maybe he realized the pounding he was going to take in Miami yet again due to their piss poor qb and oline situation and decided to get out while he could.
The word amongst the NFL circles is that he's apparently conjuring up nightmares of Seth Payne stuffing him at the line again.
Folks.......they are NOT TAKING IT TOO LIGHTLY over at FinHeaven.com ....the big Phin fans board like CC.net is to the Rockets. Even at 2:31 am in the morning over there, it is full scale crisis mode, CODE RED. I seriously believe, at this time in the morning in Miami, riots are sure to break out. Thank god Ricky is in Hawaii right now. Cause if he was anywhere in Dade County, he's a dead man for sure. Talk about going from one end of the spectrum (landing Shaq a few days ago) to the other..... Man, I hope that never happens here.
I dont think so. When he was in college he slept with my best friend's girlfriend. The funny part was my friend was and is quite proud of that fact.
If there's one thing I learned from Playmakers it's that gay football players will bang chicks just to avoid getting outted...
Wasn't Ricky diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder a few years ago? Perhaps being in the spotlight for so many years wore on him, when his personality never really suited it in the first place.
Good for you, Rick Williams!! I am glad he didn't let the game wear him down like Earl Campbell and Jerome Bettis. Go out rich, healthy and with your intelligence intact. Also, it is interesting that Ricky does this the same season Eddie George is coming to grips with the reality that the NFL treats you like a piece of meat.
Well, I man that's obviously part of it. But anyway, when people say he can't go back to Miami, he REALLY can't. Like there will be mega-fans who are nuts; they will stalk him (if he returns to the area with no intention of playing). He BETTER have bodyguards or some type of protection. I say this from 'personal' experience; when Coach Fran (what an ******* btw; again, so glad to see him sucking big at his dream job) literally ran away from Alabama, the people here were unbelievably pissed. It was twice as worse than when the NCAA sanctions were announced (of course payback of come type is occurring with Fulmer and the 'exposure' of the NCAA, but that's another issue). I remember the morning announcement when he decided to take the TAMU job without telling his former players his intentions. Within minutes, Libby (his youngest daughter and famous drunken slut (I have stories)) was taken out of our school by police escort, taken to their house where cop cars remained until the rest of the family ditched for College Station. Oh yes, we still hate him. Anyway, I guess I'll get firsthand looks as to how Miami fans will tolerate such actions this season. How very very unusual.
Um... I'm happy for him that he feels like he's free, and that maybe he has found some peace of mind. But if someone had done this to our Texans, I'd be rather pissed off right now. Bad enough to up and quit when the offense has been built around you, or when two draft picks were given up for you... ...but to do it with around a week left before training camp and the offseason just about over? Ugh. Sorry for the guy if he was so conflicted (he seems to have that problem a lot), but he screwed his team over rather badly.
He should have done this before the draft when Miami could have drafted a possible replacement. Then again, if the Dolphins treated him more like a person than as an asset they could run ragged, then maybe he doesn't reach this point. Considering the type of guy he is and the punishment (punishment that he will pay for the rest of his life) his body has taken from being overworked the last two years, this isn't much of a suprise to me. His spirits ran dry before his body did. I feel for Miami as everything that team does is built around Williams. Its not like they are a really young team that can afford to develop another back. Which is why I guess they had no qualms about how much they were juicing Williams. They are trying to win now and with Boston in the fold this really seemed like a possible year for them. Oh well. I'd be P.O'd if Dunta Robinson or Jason Babin did this to the Texans next year. But I wouldn't be if it were Jaimie Sharper or Aaron Glenn, guys who put a lot into the game. If Andre Johnson decides to do this at age 27, then good for him!
Man, I would be totally crushed if I were a Dolphins fan. Jesus, dude, you're 27 and just rushed for 1,300 yards! Good for the Texans' playoff chances.
Everyone knows Ricky is addicted to Madden Football... He probably got a test trial of Madden 05 and now he'll never do anything ever again.
Copied from a fantasy football site I visit: Stunning, unfathomable . . . are you KIDDING??? The Dolphins' offseason turned Saturday from merely the worst and most chaotic in the NFL to perhaps the worst and most chaotic in the history of professional sports. Ricky Williams retired. Are you KIDDING? The team's major offensive weapon retired -- just like that. In his prime. And on the doorstep of training camp. Are you !@#$ing SERIOUS? You know how the Heat suddenly acquiring Shaquille O'Neal produced a civic love-in and made confetti fly? Sort of like when the Marlins silenced Yankee Stadium to win the World Series last fall? This is the stone-cold opposite. This is the news so stunning as to be nearly unfathomable. This is the news that sends an earthquake across the NFL, changing Vegas odds, reshaping perceptions and raising champagne toasts across the AFC East and among every upcoming opponent. Saturday happened to be the Dolphins' ''Select-a-Seat'' day, by the way. Had fans known what Williams was in the process of making official to the team, ''Select-a-Method-of-Suicide'' might have been more appropriate. You want to believe this is just Ricky being Ricky. You want to hope it's just Ricky the free spirit and the iconoclast making an emotional decision about which he'll change his mind in a week or two. And that could happen, yes. But you shouldn't bet on that any more than you should bet on the Dolphins' Super Bowl hopes now that the team's offensive focal point has chosen to make himself, well . . . disappear. The notion that his heart no longer was in football has been fermenting in Williams for a few months, evidently sparked by his solo, soul-searching journey across Australia. This is not a snap decision. So we must presume this is final -- that Williams, after two splendid seasons as the Dolphins' workhorse running back, is simply done, vanished in his prime. CONFLICTED REACTION The emotional reaction to that decision is wildly conflicted. Has to be. Part of you wants to applaud Williams for standing so singularly apart from the crowd, for purely following his heart. This part of you wants to say, ``Good for you, Ricky!'' That's so simple, though. So simple, when his actions, and the timing of them, have made everything so complicated. Williams should not be doing this -- not now. That's what keeps pulsing like ugly neon. NOBLE AND SELFISH Williams should not be running out on his teammates and on the dreams of so many fans with training camp just a few days away. Can a man's decision seem so noble and so selfish all at once? Can we wish Williams all of the inner peace that apparently has eluded him and at the same time damn him for leaving an entire franchise in the lurch? Had Williams made his intentions firmly known even a week ago, the team could have scrambled to somehow replace him. Eddie George, released by Tennessee for salary-cap reasons, briefly was available before Dallas scooped him up. Earlier in the offseason Corey Dillon was available. Now? Now there isn't much the Dolphins can do. Coach Dave Wannstedt is furious. You know what? He has a right to be. This is unprecedented, or at least lost to recent memory. Pat Riley resigned as Heat coach on the eve of last NBA season, and that was sudden, and shocking, but different. The Heat had a coach ready to step in. And coaches don't matter as much as star players. INTEGRAL, HUGE ROLE Williams retiring is more akin to Peyton Manning quitting the Colts tomorrow. Williams' role on this team is -- was -- that integral, that huge. We are supposed to think now that Travis Minor plugs into Williams' starter's role and that everything will be fine. We are supposed to hope that this somehow might actually make the Dolphins better, because less reliance on one back might open up the passing game. Any such optimism is pretty far-fetched at the moment. All we can know for sure is that the onus on Jay Fiedler and A.J. Feeley just got monstrously larger. One of them had better emerge not just as a capable starter but as a force to lead this offense. No form of sugarcoating is working here right now. Ricky Williams quitting on the Dolphins -- now, like this -- is a lightning bolt of a sporting disaster.
Good for him. It's only a game, and a job to him, and if his job doesn't make him happy, he should quit. Maybe he still loves football, but hates the business. I could understand that.
Wait until David Boston turns himself into one giant pectoral muscle and spontenously combusts in week 5.
