Robert Smith Interview

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/don_banks/07/23/smith.speaks/index.html

Pretty interesting. I'm probably going to pick up his book when I get the chance.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall if Ricky Williams and Robert Smith were ever to sit down and have a conversation (who knows, maybe they have seeing as Smith lives in S. Florida these days).

I wonder if him and Maurice ever talked.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

From R. Williams article:

He has formed a friendship with controversial Jim Brown, another running back who retired in his prime to pursue a movie career. And he was moved recently by a long conversation with former Minnesota running back Robert Smith, who also quit at his peak to pursue a medical career because he thought the beatings that running backs took were inhumane. But what Williams is doing is still unprecedented. No great back -- not Brown, not Barry Sanders, not Smith -- has ever retired this young and this healthy.

 

[WestEnd]

Thanks for pointing that out, I hadn't read anything about Williams retirement ... just a little article in the local paper.