Ravens QB Joe Flacco thinks his teammate Ray Lewis is on point when he said crime in cities with NFL teams will increase. Appearing on a Philadelphia radio show, Flacco was asked his reacting to Lewis’ silly comments, not only did the quarterback say his comments make sense, he went further.
“The cities, they’re going to get hurt from this thing if we don’t play football. So I hear where he’s coming from and I wouldn’t say he’s wrong.” “I definitely think he has a point,” he said. “Ray likes to take things a little far, and he’s very passionate about what he’s talking about, but I don’t think he’s not making sense when he says that stuff.”
Again, NFL players should really think before they speak. “Making sense”? Lewis’ rant that “crime and evil” are going to go up if the NFL doesn’t play is about the most off the wall thing I have heard the entire off-season.
I would love to see the crime rates across America from 1pm to 8pm on Sundays, and if by chance the lockout continues into the season (won’t happen), I would like to see how much they actually rise.
Flacco is simply trying to stand up for his teammate, which I get, but really – don’t think if the NFL doesn’t play that people are that desperate that they won’t find something else to do – and that doesn’t include going out committing crime and plotting evil.
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DrGeorge
June 9, 2011 at 8:56 am
Well, Matt, now we know: only NFL football is keeping a lid on violent crime in America. We have it from the celebrated ‘Lewis-Flacco think tank’ of the Baltimore Ravens. By their logic, if pro football had been televised in the 1930s, Al Capone and Bugsy Malone would have turned in their gats for a Wharton MBA and become model citizens and legitimate businessmen. It just stands to reason. Why, with fantasy football to occupy their time, what criminals have time to plan a crime? And those weekly practices and Sunday games keep some of the most violent people in American off the streets during the season. What a briliant insight! Maybe Lewis and Flacco should ask for a Nobel Prize. It couldn’t be any less deserving than the ones recently doled out to Al Gore and Obama.
Joe Blow
October 23, 2012 at 7:42 am
Although it sounds off the wall this is somewhat true. In under impoverished areas boredom is what usually sends these kids out to the streets. NFL is on local TV so everyone can watch. OP is just mad at Flacco cause his woman gave Flacco a dirty look or something.