NFL Reinstates Ricky Williams

[Pseudo]

Hold on, you're going to criticize him for leaving his team in order to travel around the world? Do you honestly think he had much of a "vacation" in India? I certainly don't. It's not like he spent the entire time at a resort or something or just bumming around on the beach.

That's like saying, "How can that guy leave his job just to go to Africa and learn stuff?"

If anything I like Ricky more as a person for giving the big F-U to the Dolphins. They've certainly shown they're a classless organization by placing him in insermountable debt.

[drummer_god]

@"steve268"

There will be alot of youngsters that will think that if my hero’s use drugs then it’s ok.
God help us!!!

then those youngsters Parents aren’t doing THIER job.

its not the athletes job to raise your kids.

[Tigershark]

@"Pseudo"

If anything I like Ricky more as a person for giving the big F-U to the Dolphins. They’ve certainly shown they’re a classless organization by placing him in insermountable debt.

Placing him in insermoutable debt? Doesn’t he owe the Dolphins something like 8 million dollars because he didn’t honour his contract by walking out on the team? Sounds self-induced to me.

[zenstate]

@"zebo"

That druggie should be barred for life…

Are you George Bush?

[zenstate]

@"ADAWG"

I dont anyone is disputing that he broke the rules and has to pay the price. I agree its a rule to not smoke pot so he shouldnt do it, but to scutinze a guy the way some people are seems a tad ridiculous. Calling him a druggie and kicking him out of the game for life seems a little over the top for smoking some pot. I imagine if every work place tested for pot wed hardly have any workforce left. His crime isnt that bad and to be honest i dont even see the point of testing for pot but thats a whole new topic.

ADAWG knows whats up!

[bajohnston]

if the cfl tested for weed, the league probably would be out some players as well.

[zebo]

@"zenstate"

@"zebo"

That druggie should be barred for life…

Are you George Bush?

No, I’m Ronald Reagan…

[ballard86]

all you pro pot people fail to address his wilful underfunding of his children and his families(yes plural) because of his selfishness.

[zebo]

@"ballard86"

all you pro pot people fail to address his wilful underfunding of his children and his families(yes plural) because of his selfishness.

Correct…

[Gargoyle]

Definitely NOT the exemplar of Father of the Year. A shame that the generation of money and team success supercedes policy, morality, and a general sense of what's right.

[barneyfife1]

@"bajohnston"

if the cfl tested for weed, the league probably would be out some players as well.

If this website tested for pot smoking, there’d be a few less posters too.

An Argo-Cat fan

[merlin]

@"bajohnston"

if the cfl tested for weed, the league probably would be out some players as well.

Would that be called “weeding them out”?

Merlin.

[steve268]

I cetainly think that the way that steroids are being used it seems to me that the CFL should begin some sort of a program to help those who use them and help them to have a longer life.

[Bunner]

@"barneyfife1"

@"bajohnston"

if the cfl tested for weed, the league probably would be out some players as well.

If this website tested for pot smoking, there’d be a few less posters too.
An Argo-Cat fan

Ah, Ricky and his controversial vices, back in the news. Makes me all nostalgic for my favourite Ticat kicker (the one before Oz), and for my very first post on the new ticats.ca:

@"Bunner"

(from “Ricky Williams: The Musical” - 01 June 2006)

All of the recent vitriol that has been spewed out over the Ricky signing has got me reminiscing about our own controversial acquisition, with similar baggage, circa 1980. And so, in the spirit of the Hamilton-Toronto rivalry, I got to thinking hypothetically about how it would be if the two ever met up and compared notes. You gotta admit, it would make an excellent stage play for a local troupe. So if anyone has the wherewithal to mastermind such a production, please feel free to include this little number (with apologies to Charlie Daniels and Weird Al).

Ricky Williams came to Toronto
he was lookin’ to get off the weed
he was doing okay, ’til he found out one day
Canada’s laws are lax indeed
and then he came across a Hamiltonian
who was likewise a fan of the pot,
so Ricky donned his argo jersey
and said “boy let me tell you what”

I guess you probably heard I’m a somewhat chronic soul of course
and after all this time
I guess I’m a connoisseur of sorts
now your stuff smells ok
but this could tranquilize a horse;
I’ll bet my argo contract
against your stash
cuz I think mine’s better than yours

the boy said “my name’s Bernie, and you ain’t smoked nothin’ yet”
one hit of this grass
will kick your ass
so you got yourself a bet

(Bridge)
Bernie roll up a ball of hash
and make sure it’s the bomb
cuz Ricky’s got the kind of stuff
they smoked in Vietnam
you’ll get a half-million American in cash if you can cope,
but if you can’t, then Ricky gets your dope

Well Ricky packed a bong
with a little Acapulco gold
and resin flew from his fingertips
as he fired up his bowl
he filled that chamber all the way
and he took a mighty hit
and as they passed it back and forth
it gave them both a coughing fit

(solo)

When the bowl was finished Bernie said
“yo Ricky that stuff was great”
but fill your lungs with some of this
and prepare to vegetate

(Refrain)
Cannabis sativa, sweet Mary Jane,
Ricky’s at the Skydome fryin’ his brain
monogrammed zig-zags declaring “argos $uck,?
hold on tight it’ll hit you like a truck

(solo)

Well Ricky nodded off because he knew that he was stoned
and he asked if he could buy some of that stuff that Bernie owned
Bernie said “Ricky just come on back if you ever wanna catch a buzz”
I done told you once you son of a gun,
mine’s the best there ever was

Then they
fired up doobies one by one,
ain’t gonna stop 'til the bag’s all done
green as a bullfrog,
sticky as glue
Granny (Liggins?) do you get high,
yes I do

(outro solo)