Williams' return would warrant a warm unwelcome.(NFL)

For all those fans who considered Ricky Williams a hero for leaving the Dolphins this summer, here's the message he's delivering to them now: Gotcha. Williams is a scam artist, a slick talker who claims an idealistic calling but actually is nothing more than bizarrely self-centered. It always has been all about Ricky. Now he wants back in the NFL. It's time the answer was, simply, no.

Who would want him? Why would anyone embrace a player capable of the betrayal he dumped upon the Dolphins? Here is a guy who says he's all about team, yet initiated the disintegration of Miami's 2004 season by bolting on the eve of training camp, leaving the club without its pivotal offensive player and with no ability to replace him.

By employing Williams, you are telling your fans you are so desperate to win that you will compromise base principles upon which you build a team of character and camaraderie. How can you ask the guy next to Williams to trust him when he takes the next plane to Tahiti whenever the whim moves him? Williams will serve as an NFL litmus test: What franchises actually have standards, and what franchises are hypocritical?

Williams left because he said he was tired of ...