Posted on 12/19/2004 8:57:50 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
Former Miami Dolphin's superstar Ricky Williams was so afraid of dealing publicly with his failed drug test that he retired rather than face the media and the NFL over it. His biggest fear was that people would know he smoked marijuana, he tells Mike Wallace in his first television interview since retiring. The interview will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Dec. 19 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
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Well, as long as you ask. No.
But it bugs many that a thug can retire early for playing a stupid "game" a few years, fercryingoutloud.
Um, whoever wrote this article, would
seem to present opinion/claims as fact.
The obligatory : The sun rises in the east....
Did the Fish ever get the $14,000,000 signing bonus back?
Shhhh, don't let this out.
I don't think Ricky retired rich. He still owes the Dolphins $8.5 million of his original signing bonus as determined by an arbitrator. That's some expensive pot.
Nobody would haven given a second thought about Williams smoking pot. Compared to the steroid scandals, smoking pot is now rather insignificant. However, his immature decision made him a quitter and one of the most hated players in Miami Dolphins history.
On the bright side, we Dolphins fans got to say goodbye to Dave Wannstedt and we'll get the first or second draft pick this coming year.
Obviously there was a large vacuum waiting to be filled. Too bad for him he found one of "them there sciences".
you might have a major drug problem if....
you would rather give up a multi-million dollar career than give up smoking mary-j.
Honestly, the guy could have smoked on the off season, or waited a few years to retire, or maybe, just maybe, not smoke dope. If someone told me I had to give up Pepsi in exchange for a couple a million.....I think I could kick the habit.
Sure takes a lot of the suspense out of the AFC East.
Remember when they were talking about changing the membership of the old AFC East and taking Miami out of it?
The Pats, the Jets and the Bills all claim to hate us but you really miss us when the old Dolphins aren't there. ;-)
No. Miami was always the key rival for the Pats, analogous to RedSox/Yankees, just not nearly so intense or bitter. Now that the Pats are respectable (to say the least) Fish/Pats is a Monday Night marquee match-up. I'm enjoying the Pats success, it would be sweeter if the Fish were contending.
Given you are the one who has posted this, it would seem you do.
No, it was laziness on my part. I should have warned you off CBS Sports "Game Day Sunday" at 12:00 where they are threatening to air the sobby interview. Wadda they think this is, the Olympics or sumptin?
P.S. - although I don't give a fig about what Ricky Williams thinks, I can always count on Freepers for first class bile, invective, curses, maldictions, vituperation, abuse, aspersions, vilification, epithets, insults, indignity and contumely. I enjoy watching master craftsmen and women.
No. Miami was always the key rival for the Pats, analogous to RedSox/Yankees, just not nearly so intense or bitter.
Oh, I know all about the rivalry. Like that kid on the old ESPN commercial that stayed true to the Jets since 1969 while his Dad jumped on every bandwagon, I've been a Dolphins fan since 1966 (the Dolphins' first year) when I was in elementary school all the kids in school in Miami were Green Bay fans and then Colts fans and then Jets fans and then jumped on the Shula era Dolphins bandwagon.
I got a lot of grief in those year but, when Shula came and things turned around, it was funny how EVERYBODY then claimed to have been behind the Dolphins from the very start. I have not lived in Miami since I left for my Navy active duty in 1980 but I have always followed the Dolphins and ignored the local team no matter where I have lived since then.
During the last Divisional shuffle, the NFL considered taking the Dolphins out of the AFC East and moving them into the new AFC South. It was a geographically logical move as all the other AFC East teams were Northern teams.
However, Dolphins fans made a huge stink about it and appealed to traditions and rivalries and about how no longer butting heads with the Pats, Bills and Jets would rip the soul right out of us.
In the end, the Dolphins stayed in the AFC East.
See, we actually love you guys too. Or is it "love to hate". Whatever. ;-)
I don't think people in New England feel any rancor towards the Fish. Most folks admire Shula, Griese, Marinaro and the no name defense as much as they disliked Jimmy Johnson and Ricky Williams.
In the fwiw department, I've been to Foxboro 4 times in my Dolphin sweatshirt. One time was a Dolphin game. I had no problems; (Except for the epithets. And yes, I was part of the problem ;^).
5.56mm
Jimmy Johnson was a quitter too.
He lobbied for Shula's job and then quit when things did not go his way in the Playoffs instead of sticking it out for the long haul. He then left us with his No. 2, Dave Wannstedt, who has managed turn the Dolphins to an even worse team than they were in 1966.
It's Back to the Future.
We can only hope to find another Shula.
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