Posted on 05/24/2011 7:58:55 AM PDT by jakerobins
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Controversial comments. Ravens star Ray Lewis issues a stern warning. He says if there is no football, crime will increase across the country.
As Kai Jackson explains, not everyone agrees.
Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis is known for speaking his mind and that’s exactly what he did when ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio asked Lewis about the NFL lockout.
“We really gotta remove pride, seriously. There’s no other reason the issue’s going on,” he said.
Perhaps his most controversial statement was about the possibility of no NFL season. Lewis painted a grim picture across America of people without jobs and nothing to do on Sundays.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimore.cbslocal.com ...
This sounds like the rantings of “Leonard Moon”.”A mind is a terrible thing! And it must be stopped in our life time! Before I kill somebody!”
Maybe Lewis plans to get together with a couple friends and kill another guy.
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Ray Lewis Makes Controversial Comments About NFL Lockout
05/24/2011 7:58:55 AM PDT · by jakerobins · 1 reply
baltimore.cbslocal.com ^
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Controversial comments. Ravens star Ray Lewis issues a stern warning. He says if there is no football, crime will increase across the country. As Kai Jackson explains, not everyone agrees. Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis is known for speaking his mind and that’s exactly what he did when ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio asked Lewis about the NFL lockout. “We really gotta remove pride, seriously. There’s no other reason the issue’s going on,” he said. Perhaps his most controversial statement was about the possibility of no NFL season. Lewis painted a grim picture across America of people without jobs and...
Ray Lewis Makes Controversial Comments About NFL Lockout
05/24/2011 7:03:58 AM PDT · by eak3 · 27 replies
CBS Baltimore ^ | May 23, 2011 | BALTIMORE (WJZ)
Controversial comments. Ravens star Ray Lewis issues a stern warning. He says if there is no football, crime will increase across the country.
Ray Lewis says no (NFL)football will produce “evil” — a subject he knows
05/23/2011 12:23:20 PM PDT · by Beaten Valve · 27 replies
Dayton Daily News ^ | May 23, 2011 | Tom Archdeacon
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis was talking about “evil” - which is a subject he knows oh so well. The Baltimore Ravens heralded linebacker told ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio that the NFL lockout could cause higher crime rates: “Do this research if we don’t have a season — watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game. There’s nothing else to do, Sal.”
Ray Lewis says NFL lockout will mean a new crime wave
05/23/2011 10:13:45 AM PDT · by Justaham · 47 replies
hotair.com ^ | 5-23-11 | Ed Morrissey
“What we’re going through right now, we’re affecting way more than us,” he said. “Too many people live through us. People live through us. Walk in the streets the way I walk in the streets.” And according to Lewis, one of the major results of lockout would be an increase of evil, which he says will come in the form of more crime. “Do this research if we don’t have a season — watch how much evil, which we call crime — watch how much crime picks up if you take away our game.”
Ray Lewis discusses lockout issues (less football = more crime)
05/22/2011 1:31:17 PM PDT · by doug from upland · 18 replies
espn ^ | 5-2011
Just amazing. If they don’t get football, the fans will commit more crime. WATCH THE VIDEO “Do this research if we don’t have a season — watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game.”
Ravens’ Lewis: Crime will rise if season lost
05/22/2011 11:12:46 AM PDT · by freebilly · 29 replies
Espn ^ | May 22, 2011 | Espn Staff
One of the consequences of a lost NFL season will be an increase in crime, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis said in a wide-raging one-on-one interview with ESPN. “Do this research if we don’t have a season — watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game,” Lewis told ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio....
Ravens’ Lewis: Crime will rise if season lost
05/22/2011 11:12:46 AM PDT · by freebilly · 29 replies
Espn ^ | May 22, 2011 | Espn Staff
One of the consequences of a lost NFL season will be an increase in crime, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis said in a wide-raging one-on-one interview with ESPN. “Do this research if we don’t have a season — watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game,” Lewis told ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio....
Yep, turning that many thugs loose on the streets at once will certainly cause a rise in crime...and Killer aught to know.
It ain't the football players who will be the crime problem. Of course many of them are criminals, but they are too few in number to cause great harm outside of their own wealthy neighborhoods, in which the other neighbors would probably gun them down anyway if they acted up.
The real problem? It's your great hordes of surly unemployed people, who having no game to watch, might take to the streets and riot, out of frustration and misery! No game. No beer. Let's burn down Peoria!
Solution: We create virtual NFL football and broadcast it during NFL normal programming times, complete with commentators. Take the usual bets. In other words, watch virtual NFL, keep the real Bud flowing and the real cheerleaders jiggling. It's the only way to prevent the peasants from overthrowing the régime!
He was talking about all the livelyhoods that will be affected by the strike. Makes sense to me. No jobs, no money = more crime. And that seems to be what the parasites in the D of C have in store for the American subjects.
Rome had bread and circuses. We have welfare and the NFL.
This isn’t the first time there’s been an NFL strike or lockout, so it should be a simple matter to find out if violent crime typically increases at such times.
Not “controversial”. Stupid.
Yeah. NO NFL....BLACKS HARDEST HIT!!
Not a bad idea. Get the best Madden players in the world together and broadcast their games against each other with real commentators calling the action. Heck, I'd watch that!
Is that a threat, Mr. Lewis?
Sure sounds like a threat.
Guess we will start seeing more reports of gunfights in gentlemen’s club parking lots at 3 AM.
The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons
really? I would rather watch paint dry. I am 40 years old and sports mean less and less to me every year.
What a terrible thing to say and what a terrible thing to even think about people just because football might not be on. Lewis is and always was full of himself. Just harken back to when they used to put the mic on him at the games. Showboat.
Well, at least if there is no Super Bowl, there will be fewer wife beatings.
Elitism from an illiterate idiot (heard him on Ingraham this a.m.)
He’s confusing NFL football and NBA thugball again.
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