He's right about Ricky Williams!
"I don't ever want to be mentioned in the same breath as Ricky Williams as a football player. He's a disgrace to the game. The man doesn't deserve to play football. He should go on with his life and treat his drug addictions or go do whatever he wants to do. He's been suspended from the National Football League on multiple occasions. Doesn't anybody have any class anywhere? For gosh sakes, let the kid go do what he wants to do. He doesn't want to play football," Theismann, who is part of ESPN's Monday Night Football announcing crew, said.
Williams was suspended by the NFL for the entire 2006 season following a fourth positive drug test. But the Dolphins gave him permission to play this year in the CFL, and he signed with Toronto on Sunday.
Theismann, while calling Williams a "good kid" said he believes that the running back has had too many chances.
"We have rules in the National Football League. It's real simple. Don't do drugs and you can play. It's a privilege to be able to play professional football. It's not some rite of passage. He's insulted the Miami Dolphins after they took him back and gave him a chance to play. Now he insults the intelligence of everybody that thinks that doing drugs is OK. To me, it's the wrong message to send to kids. It's the wrong thing to be doing, and the Toronto Argonauts have embarrassed themselves as an organization signing him," Theismann said.
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geeeezus... you even say the words "lawrence taylor" around theismann... he flinches like a failed gun dog.
I completely agree with the second commenter there -- start by getting rid of Kornheiser.
He's the embodiment of what sportswriters have become today, where yapping on talk radio and television is more important than knowing anything about the game or the players.
I agree Otter, but I'd take it one step further, and give Tirico the boot too. This is a terrible booth crew, and I actually think Theismann was the least annoying of the three.
It's a shame MNF changed networks.