Ray Lewis: Pats Should Have Asterisk for Cheating
It’s been over a week since Ray Lewis said something negative about the Patriots, so the future Hall of Fame linebacker was due to take another shot at his former rivals.
“Now we’re back at another place where we let a team go into an AFC Championship, and if it’s proven that they played with deflated balls … because if it’s not cheating, then the Colts should have had the same option to play with the same balls,’’ Lewis ranted. “So we’re at a place now where we’re going to celebrate an organization once again, put an asterisk by it, because they went into a championship game.’’
If you’re scratching your head trying to figure that out, join the club. The key buzz words in there are cheating and asterisk.
Lewis should know better than to cast judgment on someone before all the facts come out. If there’s anyone who should appreciate the presumption of innocence, it’s #52.
Aside from the dismissed murder charges, Lewis was also infamously accused of on-field cheating, and, as he would put it, sabotaging the integrity of the game in the 2012-13 season. Allegations that the use of banned deer antler spray to recover remarkably quickly for a 38 year-old with a torn triceps, the claims against Lewis were never substantiated and he was allowed to play throughout the postseason as the Ravens won the Super Bowl.
Maybe Lewis really does believe the Patriots should be relegated to a footnote in the history books. Or maybe he’ll just flip-flop on his comments like he did after saying Tom Brady was nothing without the Tuck Rule.
Either way, it won’t be long until Lewis blesses us with another one of his holier-than-thou sermons. Let’s just hope the next one is just as hypocritical.
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