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Michael Balarama
 
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"usual suspect" > wrote in message
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> Michael Balarama wrote:
> > http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/4954/
> > info about Ricky Williams becoming a vegetarian

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> Ricky Williams isn't a suitable role model for anyone. Quitting and
> leaving one's team in a lurch just days before training camp is bad
> enough, but then he went on his egocentric, drug-addled escapade and
> tried to turn his navel-gazing into a media cause. He's not a selfless
> yogi (remember him in the 60 Minutes segment doing his asanas before
> ayurveda classes), he's not a decent person (I used to consider him one
> back when he stayed out of the spotlight and bought shoes for
> underprivileged kids here in the youth leagues), he's not a good daddy
> to his kids (had to be sued to provide for at least one of them), and
> he's not dependable (ask Dave Wanstedt and the 2004 Dolphins). He's a
> very troubled man trying to go back to the NFL at 80% of his best
> running weight and with many questions about his integrity and mindset;
> he would owe the Dolphins $6.8 million in signing bonus money otherwise,
> and he's already in debt over his eyes. I wouldn't ever use him as a
> poster boy for vegetarianism or any other cause I was promoting.


agreed-I just report the facts -the dopehead is many things and one of them
is a vegetarian. Hope he can cut out the grass.