Fish the season is ova!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ricky runs away
Report: Williams tells Dolphins he will retire
Posted: Sunday July 25, 2004 1:51AM; Updated: Sunday July 25, 2004 2:02AM
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Ricky Williams
Williams led the NFL in rushing in 2002 with 1,853 yards.
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MIAMI (AP) -- Ricky Williams has told the Miami Dolphins that he's retiring after just five years in the NFL, The Miami Herald reported on its Web site Sunday.

Williams said he was overjoyed by his decision.

"You can't understand how free I feel," Williams told the Herald in a cell phone interview Saturday before boarding a plane in Hawaii and heading to Asia to begin several months of travel.

The 27-year-old running back, who started his career with the New Orleans Saints, said he plans to file his retirement papers with the NFL on Monday or Tuesday.

Williams told Dolphins coach Dave Wannstedt of his decision Friday and said Wannstedt tried to persuade him to reconsider. Miami opens training camp Friday.

The Dolphins acquired Williams from New Orleans for two first-round draft picks in 2002, and he led the NFL in rushing that year.

Phone messages left early Sunday with two Dolphins officials and Williams' agent, Leigh Steinberg, weren't immediately returned.

"I have no comment," Wannstedt told the Herald when asked about Williams' retiring. "Players report Friday. Right now, it's a 10-day dead period. We'll get everybody started on Friday."

Wannstedt acknowledged talking with Williams but declined to give details of their conversation.

Williams said there was no chance he would change his mind.

He said he has already told his mother Sandy, Steinberg, backup running back Travis Minor and friends and family of his decision.

In May, three South Florida newspapers reported that Williams tested positive for marijuana and faced a fine of at least $650,000 for violating the league's substance-abuse policy for a second time since joining the Dolphins.

But his attorney, Gary Ostrow, told The Associated Press: "As far as I'm concerned, there is no violation."

Williams told the Herald his failed marijuana tests had a minor influence on his decision to retire, but was only one of many factors. It didn't cause him to retire, he said, as much as reinforce his reasons for wanting to do so.

Williams' two seasons with the Dolphins have been the best of his career. He set a team record with 1,853 yards rushing in 2002. He followed that with 1,372 yards last season.

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4-12 SEASON FOR THE FISH

OVA

HE QUIT TO SMOKE POT! WHAT A FUCKING LOSER!

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travis minor, lolllllllllllllllll


if rickey did this a week ago, you could have gotten eddie george. but travis minor, lolllllllllllllll

[Bling]

ricky is a moron.........dolphins are fucked. oh well. lets go heat.....



oh and jets still suck they aint goin nowhere either....

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CBS sportsline is klling him...


In telling the Herald why he is retiring, Williams said, "The people in Jamaica, living in these little tin shacks, they were the happiest people I've ever seen. This is an opportunity to be a real role model. Everyone wants freedom. Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do. They're supposed to be given direction and a path. Don't tell me what I can and can't do."

Two things about that quote: Any Jamaican living in a shack who wouldn't trade places with Williams in an instant has been imbibing in too much of Bob Marley's favorite leaf. The second thing is that we're all told what we can and can't do. It's called laws and bosses and wives and parents.

The NFL said Williams couldn't smoke marijuana, so he reportedly did what he had to do to pass the tests -- drinking a masking agent, according to the Herald -- but he failed a test in 2002 and was facing a fine pending an appeal of a failed test late last season.

Now he is free to roll as many fat spliffs as he wants, provided the law doesn't find him. It is illegal, big guy. One more thing, Ricky: It takes green to buy the green, and leaving millions of salary behind isn't exactly a way to get the good stuff.

Williams told the Herald the only people who he has to be accountable to are his three kids. I bet they'll love it years from now when their friends tell them how their daddy walked away from NFL millions to smoke weed and hang out in tin shacks

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Originally Posted by MR

travis minor, lolllllllllllllllll


if rickey did this a week ago, you could have gotten eddie george. but travis minor, lolllllllllllllll

Having gone to FSU, I can tell you that Travis Minor will do an adequate job for the Dolphins. The only thing is that they'll need a thunder and lightning kind of combo now. George would have fit the bill nicely.

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Likely replacements: Former Jaguars and Texans halfback Stacey Mack, former Rams and Redskins running back Trung Canidate, 32-year-old veteran James Stewart, 34-year-old Dorsey Levens or former Bengals and Saints halfback Curtis Keaton.

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Originally Posted by trancelator

Likely replacements: Former Jaguars and Texans halfback Stacey Mack, former Rams and Redskins running back Trung Canidate, 32-year-old veteran James Stewart, 34-year-old Dorsey Levens or former Bengals and Saints halfback Curtis Keaton.

all wash ups. Trung was only good when the rams offense was the greastest show on turf

fish 2-14

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You are too funny with this 4-12 and 2-14 stuff. I agree though, pretty much a list of wash ups. I'd take Stewart out of all of them. He has always been a decent contributor.

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1-15 ovaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa