This blog used to update. You may even remember those days. One recurring topic was my loathing of Ray Lewis or as I like calling him, Ray-Ray.
I have multiple posts ranting about his dancing, his human victory cigar style late to the tackle playmaking, his pseudo-preacher life and his eventual turn as elder statesman of the NFL. They all pretty much say the same thing. I hate Ray-Ray. As a Steeler fan I can’t stand the man but in another sense I really despise his makeover.
His makeover is now nearly complete. On Wednesday, Ray-Ray announced that he will be retiring from the NFL after this season; one last Super Bowl run. It does two things. Ray-Ray thinks it will fire up his team to get him one more ring…
/gag
Secondly, it allows for the media to fawn all over him as he takes the field for the last time this postseason. We all know this is what is most important to Ray-Ray. His look-at-me antics define him.
Since the announcement sport reporters have been falling all over themselves to drape that golden Hall of Fame blazer over his shoulders. It is a jacket he will undoubted get after waiting the request five years.
But let’s not forget another jacket Ray-Ray wore… a white suit on January 31, 2000. That was the suit Ray-Ray was wearing the night Richard Lollar and Jacinth Baker were stabbed to death in Atlanta outside a night club.
Richard and Jacinth got into an argument with Ray-Ray’s entourage inside the club. Later they were found stabbed to death by knives that were purchased from sporting goods store where Ray-Ray made an appearance the day before.
The knives were purchased by members of Ray-Ray’s entourage.
Witnesses that night stated that they saw the limo used by Ray-Ray that weekend pull over and dump “bloody laundry bag into a dumper.” The limo driver testified that Ray-Ray told everyone to “keep your mouths shut” and “don’t say nothing.”
The limo was filled with evidence linking it to the murders.
Ray-Ray’s white suit was never found.
He was charged with murder and aggravated assault.
These charges were dropped and Ray-Ray took a deal for obstructing justice in exchange for testimony against two of his friends.
“…keep your mouths shut” and “don’t say nothing.”
Ray-Ray ratted on his buddies.
Both were later acquitted.
Maybe he was just a bystander. We will never know. The white suit probably told the whole story. Was it drenched in blood or was it just a little splatter?
Either way… he was at the center of a double homicide.
By 2004 he was on the cover of Madden.
This year he sweetly answered the questions of a little girl in a purple dress for Visa.
In five years he will wear a golden blazer and have a bust in Canton.
I just want to know what he looked like on January 31, 2000 in his white suit.
Thanks for coming by and suckling on Daddy’s Sugar Ball…
Bearcat
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