Ricky Done? The born loser

[TRIPLE P]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=clayton_john&id=1936875

Great news.

[petep1980]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=clayton_john&id=1936875

Great news.
Can someone tell me what holistic medicine is?

[TRIPLE P]

Can someone tell me what holistic medicine is?


Its fancy talk for smoking weed and taking ginseng.

I practice holistic medicine.

[Billsman]

Holistic Medicine is defined by the Canadian Holistic Medical Association as follows.



Holistic medicine is a system of health care which fosters a cooperative relationship among all those involved, leading towards optimal attainment of the physical, mental emotional, social and spiritual aspects of health.

It emphasizes the need to look at the whole person, including analysis of physical, nutritional, environmental, emotional, social, spiritual and lifestyle values. It encompasses all stated modalities of diagnosis and treatment including drugs and surgery if no safe alternative exists. Holistic medicine focuses on education and responsibility for personal efforts to achieve balance and well being.

[Sparx]

if anyone wants some holistic medicine, come talk to me. ;)

[Billsman]

It'll make you see dancing fruit and veggies!

[rob on the job]

It'll make you see dancing fruit and veggies!

And talking boxes of laundry.

[TRIPLE P]

Holistic Medicine is defined by the Canadian Holistic Medical Association as follows.



Holistic medicine is a system of health care which fosters a cooperative relationship among all those involved, leading towards optimal attainment of the physical, mental emotional, social and spiritual aspects of health.

It emphasizes the need to look at the whole person, including analysis of physical, nutritional, environmental, emotional, social, spiritual and lifestyle values. It encompasses all stated modalities of diagnosis and treatment including drugs and surgery if no safe alternative exists. Holistic medicine focuses on education and responsibility for personal efforts to achieve balance and well being.



AKA Smoking Weed

[TRIPLE P]

if anyone wants some holistic medicine, come talk to me. ;)


I'm interested in some holistic meds, do you deliever to Ohio?

[xyu]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=clayton_john&id=1936875

Ricky Williams' career as a football player may be over after he decided not to accept a proposal to re-enter the NFL and serve a four-game suspension for violations of the drug policy, according to his attorney, David Cornwell.


Williams is currently on the league's reserve retired list and needed to make a decision by Thursday to try to be reinstated into the league. The league requires players on the retired list to be reinstated 30 days before the end of the season.


Williams met with Cornwell Wednesday night and Cornwell couldn't talk him into seeking reinstatement. More than a week ago, Cornwell worked out a proposal that would have allowed Williams to return this week and be suspended for the final four games of the season.



Will Ricky Williams ever play another NFL game?
Yes
No



"Ricky is going to stay on the retired list and I have to conclude that his career is over," Cornwell said.


Williams still owes the Dolphins $8 million for not fulfilling his contract with the team. At the moment, he is studying holistic medicine at a college near Sacramento, Calif.


The former halfback seems to be happy with his new life. He has met several reporters in recent weeks and has shown little interest in returning to football. A few months ago, he told his agent, Leigh Steinberg, he wanted to play, which started the process for negotiations with the league over his return.


Cornwell flew to New York a couple of times and worked out a solution. Williams had a one-year suspension hanging over his career for retiring while in the drug program and another four-game suspension for a positive test in December 2003.


Through negotiations, Cornwell and the league worked out a plan that favored time served. Williams would only have to serve the final four weeks as a suspension and then be available for possible trades to other teams in the offseason.



"David Cornwell informed our office that Ricky Williams has declined to accept the terms of his reinstatement," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told The Associated Press.


Williams, 27, played 70 games for the Saints and Dolphins and rushed for 6,354 yards in five seasons. He was the fifth pick in the 1999 draft and a former Heisman Trophy winner.


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The guys heart was never into it. Money made his want to come back but we all knew it was a matter of time before his real intentions came through.

Ciao Ricky!

[Victor7]

what a weirdo, heartless loser

[rob on the job]

Rickey's career is up in smoke.

A lot of talent and even more promise, but no heart.

[dwightdrane]

that's the sound of Travis Henry's value skyrocketing!!!!!

:banana:

[bad radio]

Rickey's career is up in smoke.

A lot of talent and even more promise, but no heart.He's deciding to do what he wants in life. I don't know that it means he has no heart. Think of how much courage it had to take to leave the game in the first place.

Forget for a second that he's essentially quitting football to go smoke weed. How many of us would like to quit our jobs and do what we really want to do in life? If you had that opportunity, would you worry about how it was going to impact the way others did their jobs? I wouldn't.

I admire him a little for having the balls to walk away from it, even though it's still a little disappointing to see that kind of talent be wasted...um, no pun intended. :D

[rob on the job]

Perhaps he has heart, BR, but it's difficult to sympathize with a guy who lets down his teammates, his coaches, his organization, his city and his fans -- just to go off and toast his mind.

If he left football to take care of a dying parent, that would be admirable. To leave for weed? No way.

[bad radio]

Perhaps he has heart, BR, but it's difficult to sympathize with a guy who lets down his teammates, his coaches, his organization, his city and his fans -- just to go off and toast his mind.

If he left football to take care of a dying parent, that would be admirable. To leave for weed? No way.Oh, I don't have any sympathy for him. If he's looking to garner sympathy from anyone - fans, the media, other players - he's not getting any from me and probably not from anyone else either. All I'm saying is that it's kinda hard for me to criticize someone for doing what I myself would like to do sometimes.

And I'm not just talking about going off and smoking weed. I'm saying I would love to quit my job and do something else - be a musician, be on the radio, be an actor, etc. - but I don't because, quite honestly, I don't have the balls to just up and take a chance like that.

Ricky has walked away from his job to do what he wants to do in life, whatever that is. Teammates...you know, they're really just co-workers. If you quit your job, you'd be replaced. Ricky will be replaced as well. And in six months he will have vanished from the collective consciousness of the NFL like a fart in the wind, just like any other employee who would quit their job to pursue what they want in life.

Ricky didn't like his job. So he quit. Can't say I blame him.

[finsrclowns]

He's deciding to do what he wants in life. I don't know that it means he has no heart. Think of how much courage it had to take to leave the game in the first place.

Forget for a second that he's essentially quitting football to go smoke weed. How many of us would like to quit our jobs and do what we really want to do in life? If you had that opportunity, would you worry about how it was going to impact the way others did their jobs? I wouldn't.

I admire him a little for having the balls to walk away from it, even though it's still a little disappointing to see that kind of talent be wasted...um, no pun intended. :D

Leaving on the eve of training camp was an act of betrayal and cowardice, certainly not courage. Quitting anything is the easiest thing in the world to do. The man didn't even have the guts to tell his coach he was leaving. If he had retired at the end of last year the fins could have drafted a replacement and moved on and noone would have begrudged him making his own life choices, as bizarre as they may be. As it was he said he would be there and instead he quit on his teammates and that's terrible. And make no mistake, no matter what happens now we'll hear from this loser down the line once he's run out of money and he's smoked his brick of pot. :(

[Sparx]

I'm interested in some holistic meds, do you deliever to Ohio?

if you pay for postage.

[evilfinkiller]

Can I just say something about todays "Heros" idiots like Ricky, Bonds, et al just make me sick. Growing up I looked up to guys like Jim Kelly, Bruce Smith, OJ (oopps..... well he wasn't a killer then) I have nothing wrong with getting alittle ****ed up but when I was a kid I don't rememebr hearing alot of scandle with drugs and roids, and now a days its everytime you read the sports headlines. I guess what I am saying is these idiots need to stop playing for themselves and get back to loving the game. And worry about their Image to the KIDS young and old.

[gr8slayer]

Who cares about Ricky Williams, he has lost twenty pounds and is a nobody now.

[Psychosis]

It never ceazes to amaze me how anyone can just call the guy a loser considering he actually had college and nfl success and became a star. Sounds like jealousy.

Leaving on the last second on his team was not proper timing, but what are you going to do?
Be bitter at him for your entire life?
Football is not bigger than life.
Some fans don't seem to notice that.

Ricky can do whatever he wants. It's his life.
And if you think money is not a big factor for many players, then you're kidding yourself. Love of the game. Get outta here!
Football is not only a sport, but it's a job.
So it's clear football is not his first love. That's ok. Good for him. There's more to life than just football.
When he was not playing against the bills, he was an amazing back to watch. I'll miss his talent as a football fan, but not as a bills fan.

[Buddy]

Ricky is a loser because he quit on his team. He should've told them he wanted to retire at the end of last season. He shouldn't have waited a few weeks before the beginning of this season.

[Mehser]

I hate agreeing with Buddy, but he is correct. Williams screwed his teammates, organization and fans over. If you make a commitment, live up to it.

[Buddy]

I hate agreeing with Buddy, but he is correct. Williams screwed his teammates, organization and fans over. If you make a commitment, live up to it.

It's okay to admit I'm right, Mehser. Besides, get use to it, I'm right virtually all the time.