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Going Deep--Into a Hell : Former Cowboy Richards Has Seen Life Become Anything but Golden Because of Drugs
SALT LAKE CITY — On his knees, his head aching, his body shaking, his stomach churning, Golden Richards, in a cold sweat, would hover in his bathroom over the toilet in desperate search.
He had to do something. There were no more painkillers--no more Percodan pills--in the medicine cabinet or under the bed or in whatever hole he had chosen as the latest hiding place for his drugs.
His demons demanded immediate satisfaction.
He had consumed the last of his stash. But it was morning and, as was its habit, his body was in the throes of rebellion. He couldn’t keep the damn capsules down.
So after retching, he would clutch the toilet bowl and search and pick for traces of the drugs he had taken minutes earlier. When he had salvaged what he could--sometimes he would be fortunate enough to find whole capsules--he would rinse his reclamation in the sink, pop it in his mouth once more and pray his stomach would not reject it again.
Then, when the aching and shaking and
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I met my idol. Then I watched him OD.
I get to his house at about 10 in the morning, and I can tell something is amiss. He’s edgy, tense. We drive around Salt Lake City — him behind the wheel, me in the passenger seat, recording our conversation. He pulls into a gas station, saying he needs to check his antifreeze.
He opens the hood, checks his coolant, then says everything is fine. He won’t look me in the eye. We’re standing in front of his car, next to a pay phone (remember, this is the early ’90s). Then he asks me a question.
“Say, listen, my teeth are killing me,” he says. “My dentist said it's from being knocked around so much on Sundays. I took some Tylenol this morning, but it’s not working. Do you have any painkillers, Tylenol 3, or anything like that?”
Whoa — say what? Painkillers? From someone who served jail time for trying to buy pills with checks he stole from his dad? This seems very wrong. “No, sorry,” I say. “I don't have anything like that.”
“Does the guy you’re staying with?” he asks me.
“I don’t know — I don’t know if he’s around,” I say.
Golden pulls ou
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Golden Richards
American football player (1950–2024)
American football player
John Golden Richards (December 31, 1950 – February 23, 2024) was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears. He played college football for the BYU Cougars and Hawaii Rainbow Warriors.
Early life
Born and raised in Utah, Richards attended Granite High School in South Salt Lake, where he received all-state honors in three sports (football, basketball, track). In football, he joined his brother Doug Richards and played fullback for the Farmers, and led the track & field team to the class 'A' state title in 1969, Granite's first in a quarter century.[1][2] In basketball, he played guard and was named second-team all-state.[3]
Recruited by several university division programs, Richards decided to attend the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, but his church bishop influenced him to attend Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo instead of serving on a mis
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