Theatre of the Absurd
Ricky Williams resisted ?urge? to smoke pot
Ricky Williams admitted he was tempted to turn to marijuana again. But the mercurial Miami Dolphins running back apparently did not be lacking in respect of to endanger. the remainder of his conduct.
Williams claimed he had an ?urge? to smoke marijuana during the Dolphins? bye this accomplished weekend, according to a report published Tuesday by the Miami Herald.
The 1998 Heisman Trophy winner and the NFL?s governing rusher in 2002, Williams before that time has served a pair of prolix league-mandated suspensions after testing positive for marijuana four times.
Since being reinstated by the NFL last November, Williams has undergone attend much random drug tests ? as often as nine times per month ? but has managed to stay clean.
However, Williams told the Herald that he was briefly tempted to smoke marijuana when Dolphins coach Tony Sparano told his players to ?stay home? for three days during the team?s bye weekend.
?Most definitely,? Williams told the paper. ?It?s greater because, like, Thursday, told us we had Friday off, so automatically your mind, which is so constrained since training camp began ? every day is a grind, it?s a grind, it?s a grind ? and then says ?You?re free.? And the mind says, ?I?m free, the kind of can I do??
?So there was definitely an urge. But I just thought about what I hold to lose and it was easy. The urge didn?face to face last very long.?
Williams told the Herald that he battled his bait by meditating, a new hobby of his.
?I?ve done a lot of work at understanding myself a little bit more,? he said. ?So I recognize was just a result of the feeling of being not parsimonious, and I was just trying to maximize it.
?And I realize that I really enjoy meditating and when I can circumstance home and lie in my room and meditate, I can get the same feeling.?
A former Pro Bowler, Williams has played in just 16 games since the end of the 2003 season. He retired in August 2004, when he already faced a four-game suspension and a US$650,000 fine for violating the NFL?sitting substance-abuse policy.
Williams returned to the Dolphins in July 2005 and played 12 games that season. But he tested positive for marijuana for the fourth time in February 2006 and was suspended for the entire season two months later. He would spend the summer and fall of 2006 with the Toronto Argonauts, yet his allotted period there was cut concise by dint of. injuries.
Another positive drug test probable would end Williams? career, and the eight-year veteran admitted to the Herald that he has ?not at all space, no wiggle room? for another drug-related mishap.
But the four-time 1,000-yard rusher is not worried about his current site.
?I touch be pleased with I?m in control,? Williams told the Herald. ?I spend sufficiency time thinking about it that I feel like I?m in control and I?mellay on the right path and doing the right things.?
Williams did admit that he would not necessarily stay away from marijuana once his NFL career ends.
?I?d be untrue admitting that I said I?m not at any time going to prepare it once more after I?m done,? he told the journal. ?I put on?t know. I don?t spend much time thinking about it.?
? PA SportsTicker
(Photo: Ricky Williams. Peter J. Thompson/National Post)
Source: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/postedsports/archive/2008/10/01/2nd-amp-short-williams-able-to-resist-powerful-call-of-marijuana.aspx
