a message to dolphins brass:you better take ricky back!
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Dol-Fan Dupree
Manning to Tyree = Best SB Play EVER!!!!
why would Miami suffer?
Lord.
Captain Lou
FinHeaven VIP
I'm sure the Miami brass really cares about what Ohiobryan thinks ! Ricky is getting older, but is a great player when he plays. I don't think Ricky cares about football all that much. I'll take or leave him. I'd trade him, but he has no value. He's already burned this franchise twice. I for one am not into abuse relationships. I think he should buy a spaceship so he can finally go home. :confused:
Dol-Fan Dupree
Manning to Tyree = Best SB Play EVER!!!!
He is also one nap away from being banned from football for life.
finyank13
☠️ Banned ☠️
i agree we need him back
I dont think we could get a better running back for the price BUT it has yet to be seen whether he will come back at the same skill level as he left. Next to Marino/Zach/Jason he was my favorite fin.
LarryFinFan
Left So Fla, never the Fins...
Yeah, right....
I'm sure that Ricky will make the difference between for us getting to the next step....give me a break....
I'd take RW back if the brass seem to think he's worth it. In fact, I believe, if he is reinstated, he'd still be covered under his old contract, which would be good for us....however, if they don't bring him back, who really cares ?? After getting burned twice by RW, we'll know one thing for sure if he doesn't come back....we won't have him !!
Give it a rest...RW won't make or break this team....
I'm sure that Ricky will make the difference between for us getting to the next step....give me a break....
I'd take RW back if the brass seem to think he's worth it. In fact, I believe, if he is reinstated, he'd still be covered under his old contract, which would be good for us....however, if they don't bring him back, who really cares ?? After getting burned twice by RW, we'll know one thing for sure if he doesn't come back....we won't have him !!
Give it a rest...RW won't make or break this team....
PhinFan0202
Alriiigghht miaaammi!!!
Ricky is an amazing runningback when he wants to be. He has moves that you can't teach and it's a shame that he can never get his head on straight. We paid so much to get him ad he probably would have been worth it if he was dedicated.
PerfectFinz72
Pro Bowler
I dont want him back. Hopefully it never happens again.
beemerdaddy
FinHeaven VIP
Yes We Should Take Ricky Back
HERE A STORY ON RICKY WILLIAMS
If you were watching the Miami Dolphins play the New York Jets this afternoon, you did not see Dolphins superstar running back Ricky Williams. He’s sitting out a four-game suspension for failing NFL drug tests. Many of you who don’t follow football have heard of Ricky Williams because last year he did something that all star athletes never do: At the peak of his earning power, he simply walked out on his team, and his $5 million salary. And that unexpected walkout doomed the Dolphins' season. But this season, Ricky is back.
Why? Why did he return to football? Correspondent Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes went to Miami to find out. But first, take a look at Ricky Williams a year ago.
When 60 Minutes first met him, he was studying the ancient Indian science of Ayurveda, hoping to become a holistic healer. Instead of roaring crowds, he was listening to what his instructor called "the whisperings of his soul." And he told 60 Minutes with some conviction that being free to focus on his mind, his body, and his soul was worth much more to him than the millions he'd turned his back on.
"Well," he said, "my whole thing in life is, I just want freedom. And I thought that money would give me that freedom. I was wrong, of course, but …"
Why was he wrong?
"Because, especially when you're 21 and you're given as much money as I was given ..."
How much was he given?
"When I was 21, I received my first check," Williams replied. "It was 3.6."
Million?
"That was before taxes," Williams said. "After, it was like 2 … 2.4 … It bound me more than it freed me because now I had more things to worry about. I had more people asking for money. I thought I had to buy a house and nice cars and different things that people with money are supposed to do."
He said he did not find that satisfying.
"It just seemed to create more problems," Williams said.
And he has said before: "It's blood money as far as I'm concerned. The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress." When Wallace challenged him on that statement, Williams agreed that it was "bull----."
The real reason he left, he told 60 Minutes, was to avoid the public humiliation over news that he had just failed a drug test, his third failed drug test.
"All right," Williams said. "Here's what happened, OK? The thing that I had the most trouble with was that after  after you fail your, your third test then it becomes public knowledge that, that you failed the test. And that's the one thing that I couldn't deal with at the time: People knowing that I smoke marijuana."
The problem with failing his third NFL drug test was that it would be made public.
"That was my biggest fear in my whole entire life," the athlete responded. "I was scared to death of that."
So, rather than face the music and the media about his failed drug test, he quit football and ran away, far, far away, to Australia, where he lived in a tent community that cost him just $7 a day.
"In my tent," he said, "I had about 30 books, and every morning I'd wake up about 5 in the morning, and I'd take my flashlight and I'd read for a couple of hours."
Books about what?
"Everything from nutrition to  to Buddhism to Jesus, to try to figure out, you know, what am I? What am I? So I just kept reading and reading. And couldn't figure out what I was, but I learned a lot."
It was there he learned about that ancient healing science from India called Ayurveda.
"It's using nature to heal yourself," he says, "to put yourself in balance … It's a journey that people spend their whole lives on."
What's balance?
"To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance," Williams said. "And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow … dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear."
And Williams has, he believes, experience with all of the above.
"I've had a little bit of all of it, yeah," he says. "Most people have."
So last fall, a year ago, he enrolled at the California College of Ayurveda. Freed from the structured life of the NFL, he immersed himself in the search for his soul.
"Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there," Williams says. "Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real."
Massage, 60 Minutes learned, was just part of his training to become a holistic masseur. Ayurvetic healing techniques also include aroma therapy, music, and special foods. And while he thoroughly enjoyed his sublime studies, he remained unapologetic for deserting his teammates and the fans, and destroying their season.
"When would it have been OK for me to stop playing football?" Williams says. "When my knees went out? When my shoulders went out? When I had too many concussions? When is it OK? … I'm just curious. I'm just curious, because I don't understand. When is it OK to not play football anymore?"
A year ago, Wallace asked Williams this: "Do you care about what people think who are looking in … right now?"
And Williams said, "No."
HERE A STORY ON RICKY WILLIAMS
If you were watching the Miami Dolphins play the New York Jets this afternoon, you did not see Dolphins superstar running back Ricky Williams. He’s sitting out a four-game suspension for failing NFL drug tests. Many of you who don’t follow football have heard of Ricky Williams because last year he did something that all star athletes never do: At the peak of his earning power, he simply walked out on his team, and his $5 million salary. And that unexpected walkout doomed the Dolphins' season. But this season, Ricky is back.
Why? Why did he return to football? Correspondent Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes went to Miami to find out. But first, take a look at Ricky Williams a year ago.
When 60 Minutes first met him, he was studying the ancient Indian science of Ayurveda, hoping to become a holistic healer. Instead of roaring crowds, he was listening to what his instructor called "the whisperings of his soul." And he told 60 Minutes with some conviction that being free to focus on his mind, his body, and his soul was worth much more to him than the millions he'd turned his back on.
"Well," he said, "my whole thing in life is, I just want freedom. And I thought that money would give me that freedom. I was wrong, of course, but …"
Why was he wrong?
"Because, especially when you're 21 and you're given as much money as I was given ..."
How much was he given?
"When I was 21, I received my first check," Williams replied. "It was 3.6."
Million?
"That was before taxes," Williams said. "After, it was like 2 … 2.4 … It bound me more than it freed me because now I had more things to worry about. I had more people asking for money. I thought I had to buy a house and nice cars and different things that people with money are supposed to do."
He said he did not find that satisfying.
"It just seemed to create more problems," Williams said.
And he has said before: "It's blood money as far as I'm concerned. The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress." When Wallace challenged him on that statement, Williams agreed that it was "bull----."
The real reason he left, he told 60 Minutes, was to avoid the public humiliation over news that he had just failed a drug test, his third failed drug test.
"All right," Williams said. "Here's what happened, OK? The thing that I had the most trouble with was that after  after you fail your, your third test then it becomes public knowledge that, that you failed the test. And that's the one thing that I couldn't deal with at the time: People knowing that I smoke marijuana."
The problem with failing his third NFL drug test was that it would be made public.
"That was my biggest fear in my whole entire life," the athlete responded. "I was scared to death of that."
So, rather than face the music and the media about his failed drug test, he quit football and ran away, far, far away, to Australia, where he lived in a tent community that cost him just $7 a day.
"In my tent," he said, "I had about 30 books, and every morning I'd wake up about 5 in the morning, and I'd take my flashlight and I'd read for a couple of hours."
Books about what?
"Everything from nutrition to  to Buddhism to Jesus, to try to figure out, you know, what am I? What am I? So I just kept reading and reading. And couldn't figure out what I was, but I learned a lot."
It was there he learned about that ancient healing science from India called Ayurveda.
"It's using nature to heal yourself," he says, "to put yourself in balance … It's a journey that people spend their whole lives on."
What's balance?
"To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance," Williams said. "And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow … dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear."
And Williams has, he believes, experience with all of the above.
"I've had a little bit of all of it, yeah," he says. "Most people have."
So last fall, a year ago, he enrolled at the California College of Ayurveda. Freed from the structured life of the NFL, he immersed himself in the search for his soul.
"Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there," Williams says. "Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real."
Massage, 60 Minutes learned, was just part of his training to become a holistic masseur. Ayurvetic healing techniques also include aroma therapy, music, and special foods. And while he thoroughly enjoyed his sublime studies, he remained unapologetic for deserting his teammates and the fans, and destroying their season.
"When would it have been OK for me to stop playing football?" Williams says. "When my knees went out? When my shoulders went out? When I had too many concussions? When is it OK? … I'm just curious. I'm just curious, because I don't understand. When is it OK to not play football anymore?"
A year ago, Wallace asked Williams this: "Do you care about what people think who are looking in … right now?"
And Williams said, "No."