Post by BRV on Jan 31, 2013 11:18:01 GMT -5
Sports Illustrated's Michael Rosenberg just absolutely dropped the mic on Ray Lewis, but I'm sure Lewis will respond by saying that Rosenberg's article is "the work of the devil" and that God has a truer purpose for Lewis and blah-blah-blah...
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Ray Lewis stopped admiring himself in the mirror for long enough to talk to the media Wednesday, and he will be pleased to hear that the experience was almost spiritual.
He said he is "too blessed to be stressed." He said he announced his retirement before the playoffs began not because he enjoys attention but because "I believe that you should give everybody a fair chance to say their goodbyes." Anyway, don't you worry about those goodbyes being a distraction, dear NFL fans, because as Lewis said, "For my retirement in the game, I haven't thought about it at all."
He also said questions about performance-enhancing drug use are "a trick of the devil," which makes me wonder how he reacts when the NFL requests a urine sample. Does he hold it in, on religious grounds?
There is no stopping the Ray train at this point, people. There isn't even a train station. The Ray train just goes around in glorious circles, over and over again.
He has decided there will be no negative stories about him, and how can you argue with that? Show him a line of criticism and he'll show you a righteous path. Even when Wes Welker's wife basically called him a horrible human being, that just gave Ray a chance to forgive her.
Lewis has been ensnared in a controversy this week about performance-enhancing drugs, which would alarm a lot of athletes but probably doesn't faze a man who was once accused (and acquitted) of double murder. According to an excellent SI story by my colleagues David Epstein and George Dohrmann, in October Lewis spoke on the phone with Mitch Ross, director of a controversial Alabama-based company called Sports with Alternatives to Steroids.
On the phone call, Lewis talked about Ross' hologram stickers, which supposedly improve strength, balance and flexibility, and deer antler spray, which contains the banned substance IGF-1. He was prescribed a regimen. The phone call was recorded.
Those of us in the trade refer to these as "facts," but Lewis will not address them, ostensibly because he is serving a higher power but possibly because he has no explanation for what he did. I don't know, I'm just throwing that out there. It's a crazy theory of mine.
Lewis says Ross "has no credibility." He did not say why he was on the phone in October, after tearing his triceps, asking for help from a guy with no credibility.
He said he is "too blessed to be stressed." He said he announced his retirement before the playoffs began not because he enjoys attention but because "I believe that you should give everybody a fair chance to say their goodbyes." Anyway, don't you worry about those goodbyes being a distraction, dear NFL fans, because as Lewis said, "For my retirement in the game, I haven't thought about it at all."
He also said questions about performance-enhancing drug use are "a trick of the devil," which makes me wonder how he reacts when the NFL requests a urine sample. Does he hold it in, on religious grounds?
There is no stopping the Ray train at this point, people. There isn't even a train station. The Ray train just goes around in glorious circles, over and over again.
He has decided there will be no negative stories about him, and how can you argue with that? Show him a line of criticism and he'll show you a righteous path. Even when Wes Welker's wife basically called him a horrible human being, that just gave Ray a chance to forgive her.
Lewis has been ensnared in a controversy this week about performance-enhancing drugs, which would alarm a lot of athletes but probably doesn't faze a man who was once accused (and acquitted) of double murder. According to an excellent SI story by my colleagues David Epstein and George Dohrmann, in October Lewis spoke on the phone with Mitch Ross, director of a controversial Alabama-based company called Sports with Alternatives to Steroids.
On the phone call, Lewis talked about Ross' hologram stickers, which supposedly improve strength, balance and flexibility, and deer antler spray, which contains the banned substance IGF-1. He was prescribed a regimen. The phone call was recorded.
Those of us in the trade refer to these as "facts," but Lewis will not address them, ostensibly because he is serving a higher power but possibly because he has no explanation for what he did. I don't know, I'm just throwing that out there. It's a crazy theory of mine.
Lewis says Ross "has no credibility." He did not say why he was on the phone in October, after tearing his triceps, asking for help from a guy with no credibility.