And I thought I had a big ego! Well …I do, actually … but that’s not really the point here.
by Neal Boortz
But speaking of egos, have you heard what Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis had to say about the NFL? He believes that if there is an NFL lockout … which I couldn’t care less about, by the way … that we’re going to have a crime wave!
He says, “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.”
He believes that without the NFL, there will be nothing else to do and people will resort to crime.
But that’s not all. Then he really gets to the meat of it; To the heart of what I refer to as celebrity worship or an American Idol generation that is more wrapped up in pop culture than it is with issues that actually affect their lives. Lewis says, “There’s too many people that live through us, people live through us.”
I’m thinking that Ray Lewis was misunderstood. What he really meant to say was that if pro football players aren’t playing football this year they will probably be out there committing crimes. After all, that’s pretty much the culture they come from. Perhaps you remember Ray Lewis’ involvement with a murder in Atlanta! January 1, 2000. It was a Super Bowl XXXIV party in Atlanta. Lewis’ entourage got into a fight with some locals. Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar were stabbed to death. Lewis and two of his pals were charged with murder. Somehow the white suit Lewis was wearing that night was never found. Now that’s rather odd, don’t you think? Lewis struck a plea deal in return for testifying against his pals. Later he reached financial settlements with the families of the two dead men. These murders, you see, happened after the end of the football season, so I’m guessing Ray Lewis has first-hand knowledge about how crime spikes when there is no football.
How sad is it that there are people in this country who believe that their only opportunity to be “successful” is to live vicariously through the life of a professional athlete.