Football Career might be over for Williams but not the money isn't over.

 
Ricky Williams' NFL career may be over, but there's still one more check waiting for him at the paymaster's window.
As a five-year veteran, Williams can collect $60,000 in severance under the terms of the league's collective bargaining agreement, agent Leigh Steinberg said Monday.
That's a pittance next to the roughly $18 million in salary, incentives and endorsements he could have earned by playing out the final three seasons of his contract with the Miami Dolphins, and it is not affected, offset or reduced by his sudden retirement.
''How you leave the league is immaterial,'' Steinberg said.
Williams, 27, told the club Friday he would not play again and indicated he wanted to travel. He was in the Bahamas last Wednesday and in Hawaii from Thursday through Saturday, next departing for Tokyo to spend the evening with his friend, rocker Lenny Kravitz. He returned Monday morning to Los Angeles and could be in South Florida by the end of the week to continue his charitable work with a community school.
The Dolphins open training camp Friday in Davie, Fla., but Williams is not likely to change his mind about retirement. The league's labor agreement says a player applying for severance ''must indicate his intention to permanently'' depart the NFL but also stipulates that players who return cannot file again for severance.

posted by Anonymous @ 12:46 AM

---