Although he fell short of flexing his muscles and pulling off a Hans and Franz routine, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Roy Williams has issued a rebuttal following an SI.com report stating that the NFL wideout hasn’t lifted weights on a consistent basis until this year.
And Peter King of SI.com is standing by his report, clarifying today that Williams hasn’t stuck with a lifting program throughout an offseason or been dedicated to lifting during the season.
Meanwhile, Williams is defending his work ethic, per Tim MacMahon of the Dallas Morning News.
“That’s trying to find something to make something negative out of me once again,” Williams said. “I started lifting weights in the seventh grade.”
Per the report, Williams, who’s listed at 6’3″, 220 pounds, increased his bench press to 345 pounds at the University of Texas. It represented a gain of more than 70 pounds, according to a school spokesman.
Williams did acknowledge that he hasn’t lifted weights during the season in the past. And he noted that his lone Pro Bowl appearance in 2007 coincided with him not lifting weights during the regular season that year.
Williams declined to get specific about his workout routine, though.
“I don’t have to tell people what I do,” Williams said. “It’s what I do.”
And what Williams does on the field this season carries significant stakes in the wake of Terrell Owens’ departure . With Owens cut during the offseason, Williams was installed as the Cowboys’ No. 1 wide receiver.
Since being acquired by the Cowboys via a trade from the Detroit Lions, Williams, a native of Odessa, Tex., has drawn plenty of criticism for his lack of productivity.
Roy Williams Says He's Been Lifting Weights Since Seventh Grade
Posted by NBC Sports on June 23, 2009, 7:53 PM EST
46 Responses to “Roy Williams Says He's Been Lifting Weights Since Seventh Grade”
Looks like Tarzan.Plays like Jane….’nuff said
“Williams did acknowledge that he hasn’t lifted weights during the season in the past, adding that he made it to the Pro Bowl that year.”
That’s written a good sentence.
WHO CARES? Hank Baskett had more yards and touchdowns last year!!!!!!!1
Was he lifting those inflatable balloon weights
Peter King should just shut up. What did he do, pay a private investigator to watch Williams? I dont believe a word he says or prints.
He makes up for it on the field, he created his own individual workout program. Whenever his team is down 0-45 and he catches a ball on a 2 yard slant he starts celebrating like a maniac. Scientists have discovered that he burns more calories and fat and builds up more muscle in his biceps and triceps during one of those celebrations than he would by lifting weights for 30 minutes.
Maybe it’s code for how much “weight” he lifted onto trucks from the docks.
Maybe he lifts weights. Maybe he doesn’t. Either way, he isn’t a very good football player.
Who?
Peter King should not be clarifying, he should be retracting and apologizing. He wrote “the Dallas receiver was never on a consistent weightlifting program in his life before this off-season,” and he wrote that “(he’s) confirmed it.” And he did it to sell newspapers/internet clicks.
Well Peter, you couldn’t have confirmed it, because you were wrong, and you should have known it. Anyone who has ever been around a gym knows that you don’t get up to benching 345 or 275 or walk around with Roy Williams’ physique without consistently touching the weights.
I think the truth here is that King heard something a little sensational and, instead of doing some background work (or much less, some thinking), threw it into a column. I’m not calling for the death penalty here, everybody pulls a C- from time to time, but you need to take responsiblity, not try to rewrite what was already written.
Peter, you wrote a lazy, ham handed piece. Own it and move on.
Ok… i think i’m begining to see how things work.
1st- Report a negative claim about a player from a “source”.
2nd- let the hits and comments add up for revenue.
3rd- Refute the previous report with a new one to avoid having to be responsible for first.
4th- enjoy making a living off of other people’s lives.
Makes sense.
….. oh… wait wait wait….
also, make sure it’s a Dallas Cowboys player so that everyone who is an NFL fan will have an opinion on it.
I love how any article involving the Cowboys draws the same 2 or 3 eagle fans to make their little lame ass comments, no matter what time of day/night it is. What great lives you guys must have.
And people listen to articles by Peter King because…?
None of you guys are from Dallas. It must be nice, though meaningless, to pick and choose your “home teams”.
He has also been giving a handshake to Russell the love mussel since 7th grade.
kage9 says:
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:27 pm
“I love how any article involving the Cowboys draws the same 2 or 3 eagle fans to make their little lame ass comments, no matter what time of day/night it is. What great lives you guys must have.”
Amen to that, brother. It would be hard to envision some sniveling, pretending, fraud Cowboy fan out there making post after post from his mommy’s basement whenever Eagirl (get it, Eagirl?) threads are posted.
Roy Williams is a bust and a turd. Cowpies haven’t won a playoff game in 200 years.
None of you guys are from Dallas. It must be nice, though meaningless, to pick and choose your “home teams”.
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How would you know who is and isn’t from Dallas? Garland, Texas… look it up.
WHO CARES? Hank Baskett had more yards and touchdowns last year!!!!!!!1
He also knocked up a Playboy Bunny (sry THEE Playboy Bunny) and has his own TV show. Remind me why he plays football again?
None of you guys are from Dallas. It must be nice, though meaningless, to pick and choose your “home teams”.
Plano TX here … support all 4 major Dallas sports teams, but I really could care less if the Cowboys have lots of fans outside of Texas.
So what if he doesn’t lift weights year round, that’s how McNabb sprained his vag a couple years ago. Williams looks like he’s in pretty good shape unlike McNabb, who probably goes about 10 or 15 pounds heavier than the 240 he’s listed at.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDdDc9mq7II
WorldChampionBears2008 u are talking about ex cowboy T.O. right?
like any of this matters. in today’s world of sports…er football..you are expected to devote 100% of your time to bettering yourself.
-during the “offseason” you are to maintain all “regular season” activities.
-do not hold a social life, or keep up with any hobbies (unless of course they relate directly to your better understanding of the game of football)
-remain single.
-study game film of every player that you will face in the upcoming season.
what does it matter if RoyE lifts? i imagine this would be the same story if RoyE didn’t lift as much as another receiver…then it would seem that he isn’t trying as hard.
i’ve come to notice that the higher rated posts are any of which bash the Cowboys. any other argument has a considerably lower rating. strange
“And Peter King of SI.com is standing by his report…”
Yeah, then King went on to describe the fabulous nonfat hazelnut latte he got at the Newark airport.
It really is tough to take him seriously, isn’t it?
“None of you guys are from Dallas. It must be nice, though meaningless, to pick and choose your “home teams”. ”
They have not isolated the “Eagirls gene” but I have a theory that when they do, it’ll be the same one that causes lower primates to fling shitballs at each other and eat bananas all day.
P.S. The Cowboys haven’t played in Dallas since 1971, sport-o.
“He has also been giving a handshake to Russell the love mussel since 7th grade. ”
Are you saying that he likes clams?
“He also knocked up a Playboy Bunny (sry THEE Playboy Bunny) and has his own TV show.”
It’s common knowledge that Hef is the babydaddy. Baskett’s getting an 83 year old man’s sloppy seconds.
Let me speak on behalf of the rest of the NFCE, as an Eagles fan, when it comes to Cowboys fans – we don’t like any of you, truly. But that’s okay, because we don’t like Giants, Skins or Eagles fans — this is the NFC East! Rivalries are part of what makes sports such gripping entertainment. Our gladiators vs. yours, in a battle of American regions to determine who’s top dog.
However! In the ’90s there was a billionaire who took advantage of a lack of salary cap to purchase the best players ever, even during a labor strike, so he could forge a dynasty. Because of this success, weak-willed, namby-pamby men all over this great nation decided that they didn’t care that they’ve never been to Dallas, TX – they wanted to fill the void in their life with some semblance of “winning” so they adopted the false moniker of “Americas Team” and decided it was okay to be a Cowboys fan even though they were from Kansas, or New York, etc.
Generally these people are also the insufferable bastards who insist on rubbing other people’s noses in the victory of their so-called “home team”. Thus, they are reviled in Washington and Philly and New York more than any other sports fan. They are traitors to their geographical areas, cancers on the face of sports fandom.
Cowboys fans in Texas? You get a pass. Cowboys fans who have no real ties to Dallas outside of football? Scum.
So roughing up the suspect now counts as lifting?
Williams isn’t all that good anyway. Detroit got a king’s ransom for a player that they didn’t think enough of not to spend the #2 overall pick on a replacement for and Dallas got a mediocre #2 receiver in exchange.
And to top it all off, Williams goes from one cultire of failure to another that pumps itself up early each season only to go 1-4 in December and lose it’s momentum after reading their own press clippings each year.
David Boston lifted weights. That worked out well.
America hates the Cowboys. Shouldn’t matter to Vox. His home team is the Texans/Oilers.
philgrek says:
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:55 pm
i’ve come to notice that the higher rated posts are any of which bash the Cowboys. any other argument has a considerably lower rating. strange
it probably has more to do that the Cowboy’s roster always looks more like the Island of Misfit Toys than it resembles an NFL team.
why do some of you egirl people try to make a comparison between R W & hahahank basket yea he is a real stud, hehehe! Check out his D3 college stats sometime. I am really dont know how he slipped to the third round and fell to you. Jeffy & banner are brilliant minds. Shit just look at their track record, fred 5pounds to gram ma’s mitchell, donte kill him dui stallworth, and oh yea lj short arm smith. Question them.. No way, brilliant! R W will have 1000-1200 yrds & 18 to 20 td’s and you idiots will still be beggin your team to sign boldin or plax. Oh yea, curtis is your # 1 hahahahaha…jeffy cant reach that deep into his pockets to sign a real # 1! Just Sloopy seconds , kinda like hahahank
unclaimed,
Amen brother. The only thing I’d add is how the fugaze Cowboys posters turn into Casper (not Dave) when their team dissolves in December & January.
Vox Veritas says:
“Baskett’s getting an 83 year old man’s sloppy seconds. ”
I’m sure it beats (pardon the pun) your “sessions” with your Tony Romo Fathead…
unclaimedfright
Funny, I don’t recall ever meeting a Philly fan until this decade, funny how that works out isn’t it? Now you decided to throw out a long ass post bashing anything and everything that has to do with the Dallas Cowboys but you should have done some research before you started throwing false facts around. Just to help you out I have provided some reading material for you:
Bob Ryan, the Vice President and editor-in-chief of NFL Films, coined this for the Cowboys in 1979. After preparing and editing the team’s 1978 season highlight film he had to come up with a title for the film. He was quoted as saying:
I wanted to come up with a different twist on their team highlight film. I noticed then, and had noticed earlier, that wherever the Cowboys played, you saw people in the stands with Cowboys jerseys and hats and pennants. Plus, they were always the national game on television.
During the Cowboys’ first game of the 1979 season, a nationally televised game against the St. Louis Cardinals (which Dallas won 22-21), the television announcer for CBS introduced the Cowboys as America’s Team and the name stuck.
Dallas’s Hall of Fame coach Tom Landry originally did not approve of the appellation of America’s Team. He felt that it would give opposing teams extra incentive to play harder. Eventually he gave in and actually came to like the name.
Read up then post you ignorant piece of Philly trash!!! Dallas may have a ton of bandwagon fans that held on since coming onboard in the 90′s but at least they have stuck with a team, which all of you LOVE pointing out, hasn’t won a playoff game since 1996. You all can’t have it both ways!!!!
And one last thing, no one really cares about the whole America’s Team title anymore, except for fans of opposing teams in the NFC East….
I know it’s the off season and everyone talks shit on the teams they hate and pumps up their own team…..It’s ball busting and thats what fans do,and that is a part of what makes the NFL great… but lets be a little realistic here….”18-20 td’s”….for Roy Williams? Perhaps in the blind enthusiasm of the off season or the fact you have a propane leak in the trailer led to this prediction. These numbers have been approached a total of 4 times in NFL history…With QB’s Montana, Marino,Brady and Favre…..Get a grip, or better yet step outside and get some fresh air…..Oh and DaddyMateo, thanks for the Wikipedia update….That was original……..
As long as Asante Samuel is better at his job then Roy Williams is at his, Andy will continue to beat the Cowboys 70 percent of the time. Like he has done his whole career.
EskinSux….apparently some Philly fans are not aware and I was just passing on the knowledge. ie unclaimedfright:
“However! In the ’90s there was a billionaire who took advantage of a lack of salary cap to purchase the best players ever, even during a labor strike, so he could forge a dynasty. Because of this success, weak-willed, namby-pamby men all over this great nation decided that they didn’t care that they’ve never been to Dallas, TX – they wanted to fill the void in their life with some semblance of “winning” so they adopted the false moniker of “Americas Team” and decided it was okay to be a Cowboys fan even though they were from Kansas, or New York, etc.”
Did you read my whole post or just the part that you wanted to criticize???
In the ’90s there was a billionaire who took advantage of a lack of salary cap to purchase the best players ever, even during a labor strike, so he could forge a dynasty.
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You do know that the majority of the players were drafted, right? Oh wait, you’re a tool, so you probably don’t know that.
Oh….I read it……and it was verbatim wikipedia…Did you edit it yourself?…And the last sentence……”no one really cares about the whole america’s team title except for opposing fans of the nfc east”……..Are you new to this site?…
I did edit it myself (if by edit you mean deleting the citations) and the only wiki part was for the mo-mo that said Dallas got the America’s Team tag in the 90′s b/c Jerry Jones “bought” his dynasty….
And I have been reading this site for a while now but just started posting (preferred FoxSports until recently). I see a lot of ass clowns posting Pro-Dallas comments referring to them as “America’s Team” but the rest of their post is garbage and has no validity whatsoever. But there are just as many Anti-Dallas comments using the same term….
“Yeah, then King went on to describe the fabulous nonfat hazelnut latte he got at the Newark airport.
It really is tough to take him seriously, isn’t it?”
Seriously! I don’t care what King puts in his fat mouth to make his ass even fatter. It’s not Coffee Illustrated, for Christ’s sakes – and it’s a shameless way to up his word count without having to offer insightful football commentary. And if he gives one more blowjob to the Red Sox…
Oh, I’m sorry. So because some sportscaster called them “America’s Team” that means it’s not on the asshat fans who ran around spouting it left and right, alongside “HOW BOUT DEM COWBOYS YEEHAW”.
Anyway, the crux of my point is this – bandwagon Steelers and Patriots fans are low, but Cowboys fans are the lowest of the low, because they became Cowboys fans on a bandwagon that’s broken down a long time ago, and insist that because they remain frontrunning pr*cks of a team that’s nowhere close to the front of the pack, they’re diehards. Not true, you’re just on the bandwagon for a team from the ’90s.
Again, all Cowboys fans from Texas are exempt from this trash-talk. I hate you all too, but respect your love for your team.