The Sweet Life Of Ahmad Rashad

September, 1998

He has fame, a beautiful wife and a legendary best friend. Is that any reason to hate the guy?On the Saturday eve of the last regular-season game between the New York Knicks and the Chicago Bulls at Madison Square Garden, Ahmad Rashad sat in his suite at New York's Plaza Hotel, smoking an expensive cigar, talking about how he knew it was time to get out of football. "I'd always felt in control out there," he said of his ten-year NFL career, "and as I got older I felt I was losing...

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