<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Ex-Vikings running back Smith signs with CFL teamSportsTickerWINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Running back Onterrio Smith is headed to the CFL.A little more than two weeks after being released by the Minnesota Vikings, Smith signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Friday.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Smith made headlines in April 2005 when he was detained at an airport for being caught with a device that is designed to beat drug tests. Two months later, Smith was suspended for the entire 2005 season after violating the league's substance abuse policy.The Vikings released Smith on April 26. He rushed for 544 yards in 2004."My skill is still there," Smith said. "It's just a case of coming up there and learning the system."Smith was stopped at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in April 2005 after his bag set off a screening device. A search found several vials of dried urine and "The Original Whizzinator," which is a $150 kit used to help individuals pass drug tests.With two strikes against him under the league's substance abuse policy, Smith was banned for one year.Expected to be either a first- or second-round draft pick in 2003, Smith slipped into the fourth round because of character questions. He was kicked out of the University of Tennessee in 2000 because of off-the-field problems and finished his college career at Oregon.</div> http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2442797
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (david81 @ May 12 2006, 08:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I think he'll be one of the leading rushers over there, if not the leader.</div>I agree, he had to potenial to be a very good back in the NFL. He will do really well in the CFL.
Guess he will never be in the NFL again... At least he is gonna stay active and in shape. If a NFL team wanted him he will be ready.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (links @ May 18 2006, 03:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (david81 @ May 12 2006, 08:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I think he'll be one of the leading rushers over there, if not the leader.</div>I agree, he had to potenial to be a very good back in the NFL. He will do really well in the CFL.</div>Yeah I thought he was Minnesota's answer at RB when he had that very good rookie season. Too bad it ended like this, but he should be an elite back in the CFL.
