Ricky Williams crackhead your finished

Updated: Feb. 20, 2006, 12:25 AM ET
Report: Ricky Williams violates NFL drug policyESPN.com news services


Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams has violated the NFL's substance abuse policy for a fourth time and is facing a one-year suspension from the league, Denver television station KDVR reported on Sunday.


Ricky Williams
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2005 SEASON STATISTICS
Rush Yds TD Rec Yds TD
168 743 6 17 93 0


The Miami Herald, citing two sources of its own, confirmed the station's report that Williams has violated the policy, although neither source would say whether Williams had failed a drug test or if he had missed a required test, which also is a violation.


An NFL spokesman told ESPN that the NFL had no comment on the report.

Williams has tested positive for marijuana three times and served a four-game suspension when he returned to the NFL last season following a one-year retirement.


Dolphins coach Nick Saban told ESPN he was not aware that Williams had tested positive and he was not allowed to comment, citing the confidential nature of the league's substance-abuse policy.


Dolphins spokesman Harvey Greene declined to comment when reached by the Herald on Sunday night.


"Because of the confidential nature of the league's substance abuse policy, we can't comment on any aspect of that program," Greene told the newspaper.


Williams was also fined the equivalent of four weeks' salary after his second and third violations of the NFL policy, in December 2003 and the 2004 offseason.


Williams abruptly retired from the NFL in July 2004 and the Dolphins fell apart, losing their first six games and finishing 4-12 -- their worst season since the 1960s.


At the time of his return, Williams was ordered to pay the Dolphins $8.6 million for breaching his contract, although there has been no financial resolution between him and the team. He was scheduled to be paid the league minimum of $540,000 last season, but was docked four games' pay due to his league-mandated suspension and was fined another four games in pay, reducing his take to $285,882.


Williams' base salaries for the two coming seasons are $545,000 and $670,000, the minimum for a player (he entered the league in 1999) of his NFL tenure.



Motivated partly by the need for a paycheck, he accepted Saban's offer to return for the 2005 season. When he reported at the start of training camp, Williams publicly apologized for the impact caused by his retirement and teammates unanimously embraced his return.


The Dolphins finished the 2005 season 9-7, winning their last six games. Williams gained 743 yards and scored six touchdowns.


Williams won the Heisman Trophy, the Maxwell Award, the Walter Camp Award and the Doak Walker Award following his senior season at Texas, in 1998. The New Orleans Saints traded away all their picks in the 1999 NFL draft in order to get him.


In six seasons with New Orleans and Miami, Williams has 7,097 yards on 1,757 carries -- four yards per carry -- and 47 rushing touchdowns. His best season was in 2002 with Miami, when he gained 1,853 yards in 383 carries and ran for 16 TDs

He probably just missed his appointment. :unsure:

This isn’t a surprise at all. During his interview on 60 Minutes they asked him if he was going to stop smoking marijuana to play in the NFL and he told the interviewer no. The only reason he came back to the Dolphins is because he was going to have to pay them 8 million dollars in restitution for breach of contract.

What a waste.

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Originally Posted by BigBank_Hank

What a waste.

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that's it in a nutshell
it's pretty fucking sad
don't know which is worse though, him being him,
or the Dolphins being gullible enough to take him back.....

of course skizo will defend those Longhorns to the end though :rolleyes:
missed an appiontment....yeah.....

FTL! :01:

who cares what he does when he isnt playing

Weed shouldn't be a banned substance anyway.

It's not a performance enhancer. It's a performance reducer.:dry:

What ever happened with this? Did he smoke it up or did he just miss the appt.?

yeah, let's be fair here: marijuana is one thing, crack quite another!
yup: it is a performance reducer!
nfl just gotta "crack" down on it 'cause if the conservative segment of american fans found out that their players enjoy a big fattie every now and then: watch out!
madonion :cool: