Sports Illustrated to spotlight NFL star Ricky Williams
Michelle Clancy
| 08 July 2016
Former Heisman Trophy winner, NFL star and noted marijuana advocate Ricky Williams is the latest focus in the ongoing series of exclusive videos from Sports Illustrated’s SI Films.
ricky williamsThe film will be the first in-depth look into the world of Williams as he discusses everything from his personal experience in the NFL drug testing protocol to the anguish he felt as his image was tarnished, to the perception and prevalence of marijuana in the NFL today and its potential as a medicinal tool. In addition, the film explores his new role as an ambitious entrepreneur in the booming cannabis industry.
For this in-depth exclusive production, SI joined Williams for a series of shoots on location at the 2016 Spannabis World Cannabis Conference in Barcelona, Spain, at the Williams family home in Austin, Texas and on a tour of an indoor cannabis grow operation in Arizona. The SI Films production will run with a feature story by SI senior writer Greg Bishop in an immersive digital long form.
Michelle Clancy
| 08 July 2016
Former Heisman Trophy winner, NFL star and noted marijuana advocate Ricky Williams is the latest focus in the ongoing series of exclusive videos from Sports Illustrated’s SI Films.
ricky williamsThe film will be the first in-depth look into the world of Williams as he discusses everything from his personal experience in the NFL drug testing protocol to the anguish he felt as his image was tarnished, to the perception and prevalence of marijuana in the NFL today and its potential as a medicinal tool. In addition, the film explores his new role as an ambitious entrepreneur in the booming cannabis industry.
For this in-depth exclusive production, SI joined Williams for a series of shoots on location at the 2016 Spannabis World Cannabis Conference in Barcelona, Spain, at the Williams family home in Austin, Texas and on a tour of an indoor cannabis grow operation in Arizona. The SI Films production will run with a feature story by SI senior writer Greg Bishop in an immersive digital long form.