After the news broke about Aaron Hernandez and his alleged involvement in attempting to be a real life Tony Montana, it made me think of Ray Lewis. While the jury is still out (pardon the pun) on Aaron Hernandez's fate, Ray Lewis found himself in a very similar situation. Ray and friends have issues with person at a bar, person ends up dead, his blood ends up in Ray's limo. Ray then walks away a free man, and goes on to have a hall of fame career. Is it that much of a stretch to say maybe someone got away with murder?
So there you have it I think that Ray Lewis is a scumbag low life, and I'm not alone. While I fully realize that comparing taking a person's life and saying that maybe what most guys call pass interference, was referred to as "smothering defense" when Ray did it may be in bad taste for a joke. But no worse of a joke than the justice system in this case so I don't feel that bad.
But dammit Ray Lewis got away with everything on a football field. He could hit guys early in pass defense, hold onto receivers, pretty much whatever he wanted. Yet at the end of a tough day, Ray would be the first to complain that the referees were unfair. And even that is a fineable offense for most guys, but Ray made a career out of it. Hell, he is even saying the power outage at the Super Bowl was a ploy by the NFL to slow them down.
Anyways this Sunday will be the first game since Ray retired, and good riddance. I will not miss you at all, or your dirty Ratbird buddy Ed Reed.
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