Ricky Williams
A while back, I posted this about Ricky Williams:
Ricky Williams is trying to return to football after abruptly retiring days before training camp last year. He claimed he had no more passion for football and his "lifestyle" didn't fit. Apparently, his "lifestyle" consisted of doing many drugs, since it was revealed that he failed three drugs tests and was going to be suspended for three games. Of course, the $8.6 million dollars that the Dolphins claimed Williams owed them might've had a little influence on his decision to return to the playing field.Well, according to this article, Williams is supposed to report to the Miami Dolphins' training camp on Sunday. It should be interesting to see how he's accepted by the players, if he does actually show.
The same friend says Williams possesses a love for the game, but no love for the business of the game. Nor is he in a hurry to become the post-NFL version of Earl Campbell, who like Williams, is a former Texas running back who won a Heisman Trophy, led the pros in rushing and now inhabits a body so battered and scarred that he struggles to walk. Campbell's condition, along with his own growing number of injuries, a fondness for marijuana, and the Dolphins' mopey offense, had a profound effect on Williams' original decision to quit, to be, as he said then, "finally free."
But it is business that forces him back into a Dolphins uniform. If he doesn't play, Williams is legally obligated to repay the team $8.6 million. Since it's tough to make that sort of coin practicing holistic medicine (Williams spent nearly seven months at a northern California school that specializes in the practice), or teaching yoga (Williams is a certified instructor after his recent stay in India), he has little financial choice but to return to a profession that nourishes his bank account, but not his soul.
