Ricky Williams began to think of life after football and begin to think about becoming a massage therapist. The idea actually started in 2006, when he played in Toronto during an NFL suspension for testing positive for marijuana. "When I started to sense I wouldn't play football forever, it was kind of scary to think of yourself as diminished in that way," he said. "Not that you don't always know you're not going to play forever. But at some point you understand that time is coming fast. "That's scary. Football is still important to me. But you gain a better perspective as you get older. There was a time if I didn't lead the NFL in rushing, I considered myself a failure. That's what happened in 2003. Now I see there are other ways to define yourself." He sees two more years of football in his body. And he's assembling a plan toward that point. He plans to attend medical school for osteopathy, a holistic manner of treating the body. To do so, he needs the undergraduate degree he didn't complete at Texas. So he enrolled at Nova Southeastern and has taken classes. Last season, for instance, he took an algebra and English course. Props to Ricky Williams for turning his life around here lately.
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