Wait till Ricky Williams finds out that he has to wait 40 years to start collecting Social Security.
Imagine if he did this to Ditka? His head might blow up, like Scanners.
Father always told me
'Son, you be hard-workin' man'
and Mother always told me
'Boy, you do the best you can'
But then, one day, I met a man
who came to me, and said
'Hard work good...and hard work fine
But first, take care of head'
Ricky Williams shocked the world by retiring at 27. Few people have that luxury, and "luxury" is the key word there. Ricky has socked away an enviable pile of cash in his short career. He can afford it.
Don't cry for the Dolphins. If they decided they were tired of him, they'd cut him loose in a heartbeat. He pre-empted their 2009 dissing of him, as far as I'm concerned. Fin fans get no sympathy from me, either. As a Celtic fan, I have seen 2 of our young stars die in my lifetime....and I'm about the same age as Mr. Williams.
Check this out...I can listen to the future. Here's Ricky Williams' great-great grandson, on the day that his money runs out:
"Stupid son of a (gun). I hope Ricky sure had a good time lollygagging at 29 yo. Despicable. I have to go to the freakin' State College, and buy my own car. Damned, lazy Rasta!"
Other than Ricky IV, I'm sure most of the Williamses are happy. Old football vets tend to limp a lot, get hooked on painkillers, and never really can let go of those glory days of yore, when thousands of people cheered for them. Ricky has plenty of money...he's just walking away from much, much more.
Keep Ricky on the field till 2010, and he'd make the Williamses about $30-40 million dollars. Stack this next to the 10-15 milly he made already, and he'll be living large for quite some time. Ricky can lay back and smoke all the weed he wants to. He can, according to Monponsett Research, smoke an ounce of the Kind a day for the next 4,000 years without working again.
Still...I can't imagine giving up $30 million. Someone once asked a Rockefeller or J.P. Morgan if there was a point when someone had made enough money. "I always find that I need just a little bit more," said the Rich Man.
Ricky is either beyond that, or crazy. Crazy will get some votes. Ricky suffers from some kind of Social Anxiety Disorder, and did interviews while wearing a helmet for a while. He is- no joke- said to have body odor that would cause miscarriages. He doesn't do a lot of team bonding. He is poorly equipped for the high-exposure NFL lifestyle. When he files the retirement papers, all that pressure is off his back...and God bless him.
I get this sense- and I am far removed from the main story-that if one asked a 60 year old Ricky about his favorite football memory, they will get an answer that involves a Pop Warner game, or maybe a cute story that ends with him getting a kiss from a pretty high school cheerleader. I would imagine that his Heisman Trophy is sitting on some shelf somewhere. There are greater worlds than these, as someone once said.
Thomas Jefferson's tombstone epitaph says something like "Farmer, Doctor, Teacher, Inventor." He didn't bother to mention "President" on it. I sense a little bit of the Sage of Monticello in Mr. Williams, and it has nothing to do with what slave TJ did the Hip Shimmy with. To anyone who isn't a Dolphins fan, it's refreshing and admirable.
Until some girl divorces him and takes half of his cash. Then, it's hysterical. I can almost see him co-hosting The Best Damn Sports Show, Period now.
"Easy-E, were you ever caught slippin'?"
"Hell, no!"
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He'll be back, mark my words. He'll run out of money, or he'll start noticing that people look at him blankly when he says his name, without recognition... and he'll see his friends plastered all over the sports section, collecting Super Bowl Rings, doing product endorsements, and he'll be sitting at home... bored. Yep, he'll be back again, and again, and again cos altheletes don't know how to retire. First they retire BEFORE they should, then they won't STAY retired, and when they really SHOULD retire, they change sports!
The possibility exists that this could be some kind of contract renegotiation strategy...like when Shaq said he'd retire if traded to a team he didn't want to play for.
This is all about Ricky, and shock has nothing to do with it. His luxury will run out as will his money to travel and by drugs. He may talk about walking AWAY WITH HIS HEALTH, but it's more about the NFL fines and the sepentions he will get because he can't stay clean. He's best to walk away befores he dies on the field.
From the commercials I've seen, the only way marijuana could kill Ricky is if his baby sitter was smoking some and allowed Ricky to fall into the family swimming pool.
"Suspension"...I speak several languages, and I've never heard of "sepention." Use the dictionary option AOL offers, or retired 27 year old Rastafarians will be laughing at your work
WOW.Retire at 27 , so he can smoke some weed. WOW.
He is a child in a man's body. He is chasing his own personal deamons and through his reki and buddhist treks he will find his inner peace and then he will come back until then he would be suspended and fined so why bother playing now. Ricky is just searching fpr waht every person wants internal happiness no amount of money can or will buy that to him I wish him his greatest journey to others who mock him put your self in his shoes for one day no thanks
WOW RICKY RETIERED GET OVER IT FOCUSE ON C.PORTIS NOW OR PERIST BOTH R WAY BETTER THEN RICKY
Who cares...........sports in todays world ain't funny....it's all about MONEY! No more interest than the good old BUCK. If you want to see a bunch of RICH grown men play any pro game then go ahead and spend your $$$$ they just love it.
Oh.....and by the way they don't give crap about you or your kids, autographs, sports cards or memorobilia; unless you buy them.
IF YOU'RE RICH YOU LIVE IN A DIFFERENT PLACE, SO NO ONE CAN SEE YOUR FACE! GO LIVE YOUR OWN LIFE AND ENJOY YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS, STOP SUPPORTING STUPID JOCKS!
seymorehairpie had his post deleted.
sunupmarie also got the axe.
Kids, we need to behave better in here.
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