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Who's going to boo when and if Ricky scores?.....

heres my take. i hope ricky magically ceases to exist one day, then all these issues will be resolved, since that is unlikely, we will be stuck with him for a year or 2 tops so we will have to deal. you cant force people to accept him, i feel that the people willing to take ricky back, most likely have not played much football, so they dont have the perspective that others that have played do. some people just dont get what team and commitment mean. i also feel that if you wrong me once, im finished with you. im not gonna stick my hand on the hot stove more than once, just to make sure that it is hot. im not big on people walking all over me....forgiving and forgetting, living and let live doesnt get you far in this cut throat world guys....
 
steveincolorado said:
Ricky quit, so did Kerry Collins on Carolina DURING the season. He was a drunk, but he cleaned himself up and won the starting QB job in New York and lead the Giants to the Super Bowl. We ALL make mistakes, we learn from them and move on.
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Good point.

Don't forget he was also deemed a racist as well:shakeno:

Everyone deserves a 2nd chance.
 
GRYPHONK said:
Good point.

Don't forget he was also deemed a racist as well:shakeno:

Everyone deserves a 2nd chance.
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I forgot about the racist part.
I started a thread about the convicts the Dolphins have had in the past. Those guys actualy broke the law, Ricky didn't.
 
I won't boo if he scores, but I will if he's introduced in the starting lineup (I hope Ronnie just beats Ricky's out-of-shape ganja smoking arse out in camp). If he scores I will sit silently.

To compare Ricky to Barry Sanders is asinine. Barry retired pretty immediately after the season, not immediately before camp. He also retired to spend more time with his wife and kids. Ricky retired to spend more time runnning from his kids. Ricky also retired to go use illegal drugs with impunity.

The Ricky and Kerry Collins stories are different also, in that Collins had to go to a different team to get away from his problems, whereas with Ricky some of you are trying to take him back on the same team he walked out on last year.

Personally, I hope the O-line (I'm sure McKinney remembers the comments made about him) doesn't block for him and Ricky is put in traction by the end of the preseason.
 
I cna't believe that Ricky has created such a division among the ranks of Dolphin fans. I personally don't like the guy and would prefer he goes away. But if he's gonna suit up and contribute to the team then he will be (grudgingly) rooted for. I just hope that his possible return doesn't turn and bite us in the @$$ or make us look like fools again. I may end up being a fan of his again when the season has ended, but at this time I find it hard to trust him.
 
steveincolorado said:
Thats the way it should be! Whatever and Whomever can help us win.
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Steve,

Would you mind listing the names of players who have quit on their teams or even taken off a year from the NFL who have come back to help their teams win?

Should be a short list.

Oh, I'm sorry. Ricky is a special case. He has such passion for the game and doesn't have an ulterior motives for coming back except that love of the game.

I'm contiously disappointed by the lack of integrity and knowledge of football history on this board.

Extremely Jet like.
 
TarHeelFinFan said:
To compare Ricky to Barry Sanders is asinine. Barry retired pretty immediately after the season, not immediately before camp. He also retired to spend more time with his wife and kids.
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Wrong and wrong. Sanders retired on July 31 -- immediately before training camp. And among the many reasons he gave for quitting, his wife and kids weren't prominent among them. What was prominent was his dissatisfaction with the way the organization was being run (shades of Ricky's dissatisfaction with Wanny and co.?). Finally, both men were described as painfully shy. So the two are much more similar than you folks are crediting.

Yes I know the drug issue obviously separates the two. But to claim the two cases are totally dissimilar is revisionist history.

Sanders's reasons for leaving -- in his own words
 
TarHeelFinFan said:
When was marijuana legalized?
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Its legal if you play for the Dolphins, so is failure to pay child support.

But then again, that's Dave Wannstedt's fault too. He should have helped Ricky manage his money better.
 
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