Ricky Williams Announces his Retirement from Football

I can honestly say that my love and passion for the game of football first began while watching Ricky Williams run. When I was a student at The University of Texas in Austin, one of my fondest sports memories was watching Ricky Williams plow over the Texas A&M “Wrecking Crew” defense while breaking the (then) NCAA all-time rushing record and snatching up the Heisman Trophy on the way to the end zone. I remember the cries of, “Run, Ricky! Run!” I remember passing this giant of a man nearly every day on the way to class. I even owned the burnt orange t-shirt that had a silhouette with dreadlocks striking the Heisman pose. Many will say that getting Ricky Williams to stay for his senior season in college was Mack Brown’s greatest recruiting feat. It’s no wonder that the two were on campus at the same time, as together, they worked to get Texas back into the national spotlight from which it had been hiding for several years. Several years since hi...