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(Message started by: Callie on Nov 23^rd, 2004, 8:02pm)

Title: Ricky Williams back to Fins!
Post by Callie on Nov 23^rd, 2004, 8:02pm

I just heard on TV that Ricky Williams is going back to the Fins and will only get a one month suspension!

Anyone have links on this????

Edit:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-rickywilliams-suspension&prov=ap&type=lgns

Don't run out to grab him. The four game suspension is the FINAL four games of the season.

Another edit:
Except for keeper leaguers!

Title: Re: Ricky Williams back to Fins!
Post by DirkDiggler on Nov 23^rd, 2004, 8:40pm

Here is a link:

[url]http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/7921239[/url]

This is just a legal move in order to make Ricky eligible to play next year. However, Ricky as of this week as come out and said he does not want to play anymore. His lawyers and agent have said he does want to play. I wonder if they know where their bread is buttered?

Ricky is enrolled in classes on holistic medicine. (wonder if weed is considered holistic?)

Title: Re: Ricky Williams back to Fins!
Post by prm on Nov 23^rd, 2004, 11:01pm

[smiley=bonghit.gif]
anyone else picture Ricky's grandmother calling & asking "baby, why you actin' so crazy???"...
prm...

Title: Re: Ricky Williams back to Fins!
Post by Callie on Nov 23^rd, 2004, 11:16pm

Does she serve the team Chunky Soup?

Title: Re: Ricky Williams back to Fins!
Post by lumber2121 on Nov 24^th, 2004, 10:59am

Just for the record; Ricky Williams is a total d-bag. I am still in disbelief that he bailed on his team so close to the beginning of the season. I am a big Bills fan and I even felt sorry for the Dolphins. I cannot imagine the feelings in the locker room when he is back.

Title: Re: Ricky Williams back to Fins!
Post by BarnabyWilde on Dec 2^nd, 2004, 5:01pm

Tim Reynolds, of the Associated Press, reports former Miami Dolphins RB Ricky Williams has rejected a deal that would have allowed him to serve a four-game suspension this season and return to the NFL during the 2005 season. "Ricky indicated to me that he is no longer interested in resuming his career at this time," David Cornwell, Williams' agent, said in a statement to the Associated Press. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Cornwell informed the league office that Williams has declined to accept the terms of his reinstatement.

Title: Re: Ricky Williams back to Fins!
Post by Callie on Dec 2^nd, 2004, 5:08pm

Rotowire:

"Williams has declined coming out of retirement and appears to have taken his last snap as an NFL player, the Miami Herald reports. By declining to ask for reinstatement by last Friday, Williams cannot meet a league deadline requiring that all retired players be reinstated 30 days prior to the end of the season. Williams' attorneys had arranged a deal in which Williams would serve his four game suspension the remaining four games of this season and be free and clear for 2005."

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/football/10321887.htm?1c

Last snap? This is a soap opera. Bet it could go either way in days to come. [smiley=goodrevil.gif]

Title: Re: Ricky Williams back to Fins!
Post by BarnabyWilde on Dec 3^rd, 2004, 12:06am

Wait, it gets better:

Associated Press reports Miami Dolphins RB Ricky Williams will serve a four-game suspension beginning with Week 13 of the 2004 NFL season, which would carry him through the end of the regular season. According to his lawyer, Williams will then be reinstated to the Dolphins by the NFL. The league says no agreement has been finalized at this time, but they have been talking for some time. "I am pleased with the National Football League's proposal," attorney David Cornwell said Tuesday, Nov. 23. "I think Ricky will be pleased, too." Williams needs to approve the deal, which would remove him from the retired list to the suspended list for the final four games of the season. Following that, his contract with the Dolphins would be in force.

Title: Re: Ricky Williams back to Fins!
Post by lumber2121 on Dec 3^rd, 2004, 3:29pm

What a fiasco. This is unbelievable. I wonder if he will retire again tomorrow. :-/

Title: Re: Ricky Williams back to Fins!
Post by BarnabyWilde on Dec 3^rd, 2004, 5:04pm

Wonder no more, the idiot is now staying retired (for now):

http://www.freep.com/sports/football/nfl3e_20041203.htm

This could be it for Ricky Williams. He just doesn't want to play.

The 2002 NFL rushing champion rejected a deal to serve a four-game drug suspension this season and return next year. He'll stay retired instead, and his lawyer, David Cornwell, doesn't believe Williams will play again.

"Ricky indicated to me that he is no longer interested in resuming his career at this time," Cornwell said in an e-mail to the Associated Press on Thursday.

The 1998 Heisman Trophy winner needed to let the league know his decision by Thursday so he could be moved from the retired list to the suspended list by the deadline. He would have served the suspension for the Miami Dolphins' final four games, starting Dec. 12 at Denver.

"Ricky Williams has declined to accept the terms of his reinstatement," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said.

Those terms included a promise Williams would play next season and re-enter the NFL drug program immediately. He would have been tested on a regular basis.

"The NFL sought assurances that Ricky is indeed committed to playing," said Cornwell, who wouldn't disclose why Williams decided against the deal.

Dolphins spokesman Harvey Greene wouldn't comment, saying the matter is between Williams and the NFL.

Williams, 27, stunned his team by retiring shortly before Miami opened training camp in July. The Dolphins filed a lawsuit in federal court against the running back, seeking the $8.6 million an arbitrator ruled he owes the team for breaching his contract. Williams is fighting the decision.

He gave up the $5 million he would have earned this season, which would have been his sixth in the NFL, amid reports he faced suspension for substance abuse.

Williams has social-anxiety disorder and was a spokesman for an anti-depressant. He said marijuana helped him after he stopped using the anti-depressant.

He rushed for 3,225 yards in two seasons with the Dolphins, including 1,853 yards in 2002. Miami acquired him from New Orleans after the 2001 season.