Why did Ricky run away? Jim Brown shares thoughts on Williams

Tuesday, August 3, 2004 at 05:05AM
TheSpook

JB: Ricky is an intelligent person that reads a lot and studies cultures, studies people, he has inner desire to be in something bigger than sports. People don't understand that. People say to me, "Man, don't you want to coach?" I say, "Man, I'm running a national organization. We're saving lives and it's amazing. How do you think I want to coach when you're involved in something like that?" So a guy like Ricky and Barry Sanders and Robert Smith, these guys know there's bigger things in life. [more]

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