Seventy-two days since the NFL lockout began and we’re still no closer to pro football and it’s starting to take its toll on folks.
Last week during one of my bar shifts I found myself in a heated argument over the lockout before I realized I didn’t even care about the NFL. Imagine how hard this is for diehard fans.
People are on edge but if you believe Ray Lewis things are about to get worse. Lewis told ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio last week that violence would rise if a deal doesn’t get done.
"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 too many people that live through us, people live through us," he said. “Yeah, walk in the streets, the way I walk the streets, and I'm not talking about the people you see all the time."
Many people saw ESPN’s headline for this story and misinterpreted it to mean that Lewis was saying NFL players, not fans, would become violent if the lockout continued and, in actuality, people having that false reaction were more right than Ray.
“It started with him refusing to pay his bill at a club,” said Miami Beach Police detective Juan Sanchez. “He became aggressive while being ejected by bouncers and two off-duty officers were summoned. They gave him the opportunity to settle his bill and he refused. He attacked one of the officers. Both officers suffered minor injuries.”
An NFL player refusing to pay his tab? These are the same guys that usually love to throw their money around. They like to make it rain but with the prospect of no season coming up they’re not even sure they can make it drizzle.
And it’s not just small timers like Wolfe. Dez Bryant is in debt up to his eyeballs and Brandon Marshall can’t even escape escalating violence in his own home.
If these guys don’t get paid and the weekend warriors don’t get their NFL catharsis it may be all out war in the streets. Take it from Ray. He happens to know a little bit about street violence.
Picture a post-Apocalyptic world with Ray patrolling the streets of Baltimore in full pads with two pit bulls? Who will help his protect that house? Not Chad Ochocinco. He’ll be dead in a rodeo pit with a bull’s horn sticking through his stomach.
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