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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Ricky Williams on his career and the stigma surrounding professional athletes using cannabis

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ricky Williams was an NFL superstar, but his cannabis use often overshadows his career. Williams joins Kenneth Davis, Josh Schrock and Alex Shapiro to discuss his career and impact on the NFL. Williams also discusses what it was like being on a rebuilding team, his time playing for Dave Wannstedt, his new company Highsman and more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

We pride ourselves on preparing graduates with the skills they need to succeed in life.

0:08.7

Visit xxu.edu to start plotting your path to a brighter tomorrow.

0:13.8

St. Xavier University.

0:30.8

I'm always fortunate enough to be joined by my guys, Josh Schrock.

0:34.1

He's our Bears insider.

0:35.3

Follow him at Shrock underscore and underscore R. And our

0:38.2

Bears beat reporter, Alex Shapiro. Follow him at Alex Shapiro NBCS. We are broadcasting live

0:43.3

from the NBC Sports Podcast Studio, powered by points bet. Tony and Claire running his show, and

0:48.5

we got a Hall of Famer. He'll be in there, in my opinion. He's here, one, because of course,

0:53.9

his brand Heisman. So we're going to talk about those cannabis there in my opinion uh he's here one because of course his brand heisman

0:54.8

so we're going to talk about those cannabis products sometime during this interview but we're

0:58.6

fortunate enough to be joined by running back rickie williams former running back i should say

1:02.9

rickie williams follow him at rick the lorriette rickie how are you doing today i'm great thank

1:07.5

you thank you for joining us so look i guess one we're going to start off doing him or we're going to start off doing bears. Which way you guys you want to go?

1:15.3

Let's start off with Ricky.

1:16.8

Yeah.

1:17.0

All right. Let me ask you this. All right. Is it going back in the day and thinking about when you got drafted? you were kind of connected here in Chicago because your first head coach is one of the biggest

1:28.5

head coaches ever for the Chicago Bears. So he actually had a show. And I'm talking about Mike Dicca.

1:32.3

Mike Dicke actually had a show that played in Chicago when he went to New Orleans. And I'm telling

1:37.3

you for Chicago, Ricky, that's wild. Right. So we were plugged in to New Orleans football. But I want to go

1:43.7

back to the draft, right?

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