Thursday, November 19, 2009

When The Smoke Clears: Ricky Williams


What a difference a joint makes. It can make a running back on his way to becoming a legend start passing the cheeba while passing up playing football. Smoking weed while traveling the world and giving massages sounds great until your high wears off you come back home and need a massage yourself because you remember your over eight million dollars in debt.

Ricky realized green money in his account is worth more than green weed in his lungs and he can’t visit all his favorite destinations while being in debt with the Dolphins.

After his short retirement he did the right thing both financially and emotionally by getting back into football. Once his Canadian Football days were done the perfect situation presented it self. Playing behind Ronnie Brown for the Dolphins keeps Williams from going bankrupt and gives him plenty of carries when Brown gets injured, which happens to Ronnie almost every year and has again with him being out for the rest of this season. Also, being out of the starting spotlight let shy Ricky regain his confidence both in his self and in his skills.

Since he woke up and cleared his system he stepped up and showed he’s still one of the best running backs in the world.

Now, tonight, when the smoke clears and it’s time to play he can show the world that Ricky is still Ricky, the greatest world traveling massage therapist NFL running back ever.

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