Ray Lewis: Lockout Equals Crime Spree

Fucking Ray Lewis.

Ray Lewis told Sal Paolantonio that the loss of the 2011-2012 football season will result in an increase in 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.

Huh?

When ESPN asked Lewis why he thought crime would spike in the case of a lockout, he said:

There’s nothing else to do, Sal.

Nothing else to do.

NOTHING ELSE TO DO?

I like Ray Lewis. I think he is a phenomenal football player. I think this was an irresponsible and ill-informed statement.

I love football. My favorite holiday is Super Bowl Sunday. I look forward to my fantasy football draft for MONTHS. I own at least seven NFL jerseys. I pay a shameful amount of money for the NFL Sunday ticket and stay with DirecTV just so I can watch every game the Tampa Bay Buccaneers play every year. However, I do not foresee embarking on a crime spree if there is no NFL season. I will be sad, of course, but I will not take it out on society.

Really, Ray? Are you going to go out looting if you aren’t on the football field? Are you saying you can’t afford not to commit crimes if there is no NFL?

According to Google this is Ray Lewis' House

You could clean your pool. You could read a book. You could get a part time job. You could organize your pantry. You could travel. You could write the next great American novel. You could hike the Appalachian Trail. You could take up painting or water polo or spelunking. You could teach your dog to roll over. You could learn Mandarin. You could mentor a child. You could get a talk show. I hear Oprah is retiring.

Mind you, there will still be high school, college, CFL, Gridiron Australia, Arena Football, the Belgian Football League, the American Brasilian Football League,  Vaahteraliiga, the CEFL, the German Football League, the Irish-American football league, pee wee football, the Israeli football league, Youth Flag football, LNFA, and BAFA all playing this year.

Just not the National Football League.

So is Ray Lewis trying to say that NFL players are going to be bored and commit crimes or that NFL fans have only breaking the law on their agendas, right after watching football?

Honestly, Ray, there is a lot more to me than that, and I’d like to think that there is a lot more to you than that.

Like this.

I hope that there is an NFL season, but if there isn’t I would like to think that Ray Lewis will continue to do the good work he is doing with children and charities and Snuggie commercials instead of some sort of criminal rampage.

If not:

There is more to life than either football or crime. If Ray doesn’t know that it makes me sad. If he does know it and that was some sort of threat directed at the owners, then it makes me mad. This is the level of entitlement that makes me almost hope these jerks don’t work it out and everyone involved goes home without a dollar this year.