Two More Seasons For Ricky?

It’s hard to believe that ten years have passed since Mike Ditka and Ricky Williams dressed up like the scariest thing ever placed on the top of a wedding cake. But, yeah, more than a decade has elapsed from the day on which Ditka, then the head coach of the Saints, gave up his entire draft and a first-rounder the next season for Williams, the Texas running back who actually was picked after the Colts took Edgerrin James. Now 32 and playing younger than that due to a one-year retirement, a four-game suspension, and a one-year suspension, Williams says that he plans to play two more seasons and then to pack it in. “I want to be one of the guys who can walk away from the game on my own terms,” Williams said, according to the Palm Beach Post (via Rotoworld). “As far as when the ball is snapped, I don’t feel 32. Maybe after when I get home I feel 32, but on the field I don’t feel it. I think I’m in a good situation where I’m not going to be asked to carry the ball 30 times.” Williams is due to earn a base salary of $3.4 million in 2009, the last year of his current contract.