Ricky and the sticky-icky

Lots of sports posts of late…

It looks like Ricky Williams is going to be re-instated and will serve his suspension for smoking the reefer over the remainder of the season. This has predictably gotten the football pundits all a-flutter over his antics and bemoaning the effects on his former team.

Save it.

A backfield stable of Ricky Williams, Jim Brown, Walter Payton, and Tony Dorsett would have turned this sorry-ass 1-win team into a 3-win team… maybe. I agree that his value for trade is diminished, but it would be nothing if he stayed retired.

If you want to get up in arms about anything, it’s ayurveda… that’s the fancy name for “holistic healing,” or as I like to call it, “Snakeoil Fraud.” Ricky has been going to school for it, and the school’s instructor just got away with calling it a “medical science” on the local news. If that’s not bad enough, NFL fans are probably going to have endure countless “Medicine Man” references when Ricky carries the ball for years to come:

“What’s the remedy for this team, Bob?”

“Well Jim, they gotta give more carries to the Medicine Man… he’s just the tonic to wake up this offense!”

“Sounds like the right diagnosis to me, Bob!”

Barf.