Rickey Williams Failed an April Drug Test

[YosemiteSam]

well that's just one simplistic side of looking at it. blunt bottom line is that his million dollar job rides on him NOT doing it. i'm seldom in favor of an employer telling you what you can and can't do in your own time, but if you take a job with those stipulations, DON'T DO IT.

Was this intented as pun or just a Freudian slip.

 

[zrinkill]

Was this intented as pun or just a Freudian slip.

With Ice .... there is a good chance for both ....

 

[Concord]

So what, it's just pot, everyone does it! ( Except Hostile )

And I'll Add...it should be legal so he shouldn't even have to worry about it!

 

[THUMPER]

Continuing on a different field on the subject of suspensions. It's amazing to me how the NFL is cracking down hard on drug testing, but haven't done much in regards to abusing alcohol.

I mean, the key example that comes to mind is Leonard Little. This guy gets arrested for drunk driving after he has an accident in which a mother dies and doesn't get a year suspension? I am not sure he actually was suspended at all. It's ridiculous.

If they are going to be so stringent on drugs, they need to do the same for drinking and actions of this sort. It's sad that Ricky Williams has no sense to stop smoking drugs, but at least he is only truly effecting himself. Drinking and driving can cause harm to others which should carry a heftier fine then what Leonard LIttle went through.

Just sad.... take a look at this story for a look back at L. Little's incident:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/saraceno/2004-05-06-saraceno_x.htm

Little should have been banned (he should have been imprisoned) for life for what he did and I said so at the time. I also agree that drunk driving should be penalized much heavier than it is by the league.

 

[iceberg]

Was this intented as pun or just a Freudian slip.

heh, i seldom call 'em blunts, so that was accidental. : )

 

[PullMyFinger]

What a loser.

 

[Sarge]

Waste of talent. His career is essentially over.

 

[Sasquatch]

Ricky's just a rich guy who prefers to light it up on the couch instead of on the football field. He has all the talent in the world but simply isn't willing to make the necessary sacrifices to make the most of it. It happens all the time, to the point where it's almost a boring cliché. Your 15 minutes are up Mr. Williams. Next stop, the Surreal Life.

 

[Concord]

Ricky's just a rich guy who prefers to light it up on the couch instead of on the football field. He has all the talent in the world but simply isn't willing to make the necessary sacrifices to make the most of it. It happens all the time, to the point where it's almost a boring cliché. Your 15 minutes are up Mr. Williams. Next stop, the Surreal Life.

That's what I have a problem with.

You know Lawrence Taylor Loved Pot...Coke..Whatever...But he still had that incredible Drive.

It really has nothing to do with the drug...It's the person.

Just like Guns. They don't kill people...People Kill people.

What a waste of talent. But like you said it does happen all the time.

 

[GlitzCowboy]

Geez...... does he not understand the concept of drug testing or does he just not have enough money to try and mask it?

More like maybe the Dolphins just don't feel like masking it for him anymore. Or perhaps the league is just not ignoring it anymore. Imagine Irvin without Dallas' front office to cover his *** or the ratings his FLASH brought to the NFL. I mean just look at him since both those things have ended, since he's retired. Nearly cost him a what should have been a shue-in HOF induction.

League-wide drug use is much more common than just a Ricky Williams there, a Michael Irvin here, or a Merriman, it's really bad and for the most part ignored by the league, but more specifically by the team actually dealing with it in their own city. Maybe not so apparent in the larger cities, but personally living in the smallest NFL community, Green Bay, I see it all the time. If you're cool enough and mix enough in the right crowds, chances are you're going to be smoking dope with a Green Bay Packer at one time or another. And for the record, I'm not talking lower-tier second-rate no-names here - but NFL Stars. You also can't tell me the Packer Organization is completely blind to this matter. Half of their team is running around town smoking weed and not one failed drug test that I can recall..

Ricky Williams obviously pissed off the wrong people, because his *** is just not being covered anymore. Not an individual issue at hand, but a league wide one if you ask me. No more guilty than atleast 50% of the currently playing league, I'd guess. If he just would have "kept the course" instead of trying to go off and do his own thing- and that's basically what it is in a nutshell. He quit paying the "corporate dues" and the "company" quit bailing him out.

Remember people, this is a big business and little things like failing a drug test due to marijuana or lower level steroids is just not a big concern towards the bottom-dollar. Well, like with anything, unless of course they get caught. Then it's front page news and everyone is voicing their opposal to it, even those who were in the know. I can only imagine the shady things Jerry Jones has to deal with and cover up on a daily basis, just regarding his players alone. And with the Dallas Cowboys we are talking a Hitler-size Propaganda Machine. As far as we know, TO could have very well been up to everything he's ever been up to last year, and just not publically being caught wind of due to Jerry. And if you say TO is too big of a name to fly under any radars, was Irvin too big, too? No, not in the least. They should have called him "made" when it was all said and done- I mean he sure was protected like one. Only a handful of times were his shinanigans made public. Just think, ESPN & NFLN are talking constanly- it can't all be out of there a-holes- usually always an ounce of truth. Maybe TO did personally orchastrate the Bledsoe canning? Maybe TO did throw a dart at Parcells? Maybe? Maybe? Maybe? Kinda sounds like him.. ESPN couldn't be that ********....right?

 

[big dog cowboy]

Ricky should be banned for life both for the NFL and for his own sake. He needs to move on and it is obvious that football is not where his heart is. He uses it to make money but he has no real love or passion for the game. The NFL doesn't need him and he needs to move on.

Especially on the banned for life part.

 

[Bleu Star]

Failed another drug test.

Ricky's new agents:

purchased a nice ride for him to show their appreciation for signing with them back in December:

 

[smarta5150]

What... a... surprise.