Connor Williams left the Miami Dolphins earlier this year and he took the team’s ping-pong table with him. At least, that’s what wide receiver Tyreek Hill thinks happened.
“We never found out what really happened to the ping-pong table,” Hill said last week in an appearance on ESPN’s NFL Live. “Here’s my assumption: I feel like Connor Williams took our ping-pong table and now he left the team so I have no contact with him.”
The disappearance of the ping-pong table from the Dolphins locker room actually dates back to the end of the 2022 season. Head coach Mike McDaniel was asked about it after the team won its Week 17 game to improve to 9-8 and earn a spot in the playoffs.
“I’m out of the loop and have no idea,” McDaniel said. “I think somebody mentioned something to me maybe the end of last week or maybe yesterday. I can’t even remember. It was like, ‘hey, the ping-pong table is gone.’ I was like, ‘oh, really? Where’s the ping-pong table?’ That’s what I want to know. Who stole the ping-pong table? Was it a thievery?”
The truth is likely that McDaniel had the ping-pong table taken from the locker room amid a five-game losing streak that had the Dolphins in jeopardy of ending the year below .500. And Hill is probably pointing the finger at Williams because he’s a free agent, who doesn’t appear likely to return to the Dolphins in 2024.
For now, though, the mystery of the ping-pong table endures.
