from espn.com...
this link will take you to the whole story...its a shame that
lawmakers have made marijuana illegal, there is just no sense in it...
http://www.antiwrap.com/?144
LONG TIME COMING
This is not some whim. Williams has been weighing this with friends
for months and finally told an angry, crushed Dave Wannstedt on Friday
night. Williams' decision was clinched while on tour recently in
Europe with rocker friend Lenny Kravitz, who is so consumed with
working and fame's responsibilities that he doesn't have much time for
joy, or for himself. That's not what Williams wants to become of his
own life. Williams says with conviction that no one will talk him into
coming back, even though Wannstedt continues to try.
This isn't about any money dispute or leverage or the recent headlines
involving his marijuana use. It's about outgrowing games. Williams'
conviction has grown into clarity in recent weeks. He kept finding
examples for why he should do this everywhere he looked -- backstage
with Kravitz and Snoop Dogg, while befriending homeless people in
Australia, on Jamaican beaches with Bob Marley's carefree kids.
''The people in Jamaica, living in these little tin shacks, they were
the happiest people I've ever seen,'' Williams said. ``This is an
opportunity to be a real role model. Everyone wants freedom. Human
beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do. They're
supposed to be given direction and a path. Don't tell me what I can
and can't do. Please.''
Society and the NFL say he can't smoke marijuana, for example, and
that's one of the many rules of his confining workplace he will no
longer abide. He says without apology he has gotten around NFL drug
tests with a special liquid players all over the league consume by the
gallon before tests to avoid detection. He says he simply didn't drink
it before getting busted in 2002, and that he still hasn't heard on
his appeal of a second failed test, but that the recent marijuana
issues have nothing to do with his decision to retire beyond
confirming how stifling celebrity can be and how ill-fitting the NFL
is for him.
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 10:25:15 -0400, Tangorre, Michael
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What a crock!
> I have been a Dolphins fan since I could walk, despite living a stones throw
> away from Buffalo.... If your heart isn't in the game, no problem... but to
> pull this one week before training camp? What a way to dick over a complete
> team. The fins are going to get steam rolled this year.
>
> Ugh!
>
> Burning my Ricky Williams jersey,
>
> Mike
>
>
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