Direct Rip On Ricky's Bulls**t Excuses
With all of these articles about RW floating around everywhere, I now feel I need to get this out.
First off, Ricky is right in that he is his own boss, and he should do what makes him happy.
Secondly, everyone else is right as well in that he is a selfish bastard who has no loyalty in him what so ever.
I am a diehard fin fan and I actually did throw up when I found out this retirment thing was true. When Marino left, all of us fans were left with a good team with no offensive superstar to rely on. Then Ricky comes in and shattered expectations and gave a lot of us hope that the team would at least be able to be a stable team offernsively.
I live in Halifax Nova Scotia, and I come to South Beach for a dolphin game at least once a year. I took a few years off, and those were the years between Marino's retirement, and Ricky's trade. Now I fell like I'm stuck with airplane tickets and stadium seats that I won't get anything for if I try and sell them. Thank God we have Chambers to watch for exciting plays.
When I read Ricky's words in the herald, I get mad, not upset, I get mad. Here he is saying that us fans and everyone else around him only like him because is can run the football, and that all we care about is his football and nothing else about his life. Shut your mouth Le Batard, because the only reason you sympathize with him is so he will keep calling your cell phone and not some other dead beat reporters. To Ricky: Sorry dude, after all we are FOOTBALL FANS, and we loved you because you were a good FOOTBALL PLAYER. What do you expect?? Its not eveyday a Millionaire athlete wants his fans to care more about his private life. Can you honestly blame us? We are football fans, and we loved you... as a football player. You gave us something to look forward to, and now we can't look forward to it anymore because you up and sold out your entire team, and the hundreds of thousands of dolphin fans around the globe. YOu say being selfish is not a bad thing and on some levels I can understand that. But LOYALTY and HONESTY can't be bent around to work for you in any twisted way. Yes be loyal to yourself and follow your dreams and convictions, but loyalty to people who love you is a moral thing. You have personal responsibilities to yourself, but you have moral responsibilities to fulfil your commitments and to honor your contract. Moral responsibility is one of the most important things the human race pocesses. It insure us all that unwritten rules will be adheard to, and most importantly, it allows people to have hope and expectations based on common sense and common moral values.
What Ricky has really done is shattered the hopes and dreams of everyone who followed him. And he excuses his behavior by telling himself every few seconds that he is doing what is best. His twisted and BI-POLAR mind keeps reminding the other Ricky that he should pack up his purse and lipstick and head out to discover the country sides of third world countries. Well you know what Richard Williams?? Go ahead, BUT, would one more year have killed you? YOu said yourself that the fact that people urged you not to retire inclined you to do it sooner ie. NOW!!!!! So really you aren't retiring now for your own best interest, you are retiring out of SPITE. You are getting back at the FOOTBALL FANS WHO WANT TO WATCH YOU PLAY FOOTBALL! Maybe when the NFL starts paying its fans millions of dollars to watch football, then we might be able to spend a little more time caring about your hobo adventures to Australia. But for now, I make 35K a year, and I have a lot of important things to take care of for my own, and responsibilities to adhere to. I'll keep watching football because I have a passion for the game, and it gives me a day of serenity when the rest of my life is stressed-filled and hectic. So, in spite of your retirement and all it stands for, I'm going to hope Miami gets "The Edge" from Indy this year or next, and I'll follow him as passionatly as I followed you for two years, not because he likes taking photo's, and not because he is a good academic or a good human being, I'll follow him or who ever it is because I love the Miami Dolphins and the game of football. After all, football will always be here for us fans; pussies like RW come and go all the time.
