Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Murder, we wrote

Yeah, Ray Lewis killed a guy. Two of them, actually, after Super Bowl XXXIV, also won by the Baltimore Ravens. Yeah, that's probably not a good thing for someone to do. Google "Ray Lewis murder" and you can read for yourself what happened that night. And while everyone is on the Ray Lewis bashing bandwagon, many people forget about Torrey Smith, who lost his younger brother to a motorcycle accident in the beginning of the season. Certainly something incredibly difficult for anyone to handle, let alone a professional athlete standing hours before a huge game. Smith would play in that game, a 31-30 victory against the New England Patriots. The same Patriots that would lose to the Ravens in the AFC Championship Game, where all anyone could talk about was Ray Lewis, his career, and the murder in 2000. So I not only bring this up, the fact that all we seem to talk about is the murder story instead of the player coming back from his brother's death, but I ask why? Is Torrey Smith not as juicy a story as Ray Lewis? Is it not as heartwarming a story as Ray Lewis' story is cold? Think about those feel-good stories. Talk about those stories more than the ones about the murderer.


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