When we last heard from Bill Simmons, he was suggesting that Tom Brady should’ve taken to journalism to explain Ballghazi. He was so flustered about the whole story that he didn’t have an immediate recollection of who comprised his Mount Rushmore of Boston Sports. In the ensuing period, Ray Lewis (who previously suggested Tom Brady only achieved notoriety because of the Tuck Rule) said the Patriots should have an asterisk for cheating.
The link Simmons shared led to this photo of Ray Lewis wearing dear antlers:
This didn’t come entirely out of nowhere. In early 2013, Simmons expressed his opinion on the Ravens linebacker’s “miraculous” recovery from a torn tricep injury:
Before those Miami New Times/Sports Illustrated bombshells dropped this week and we started joking about deer-antler spray, I would have wagered anything that God didn’t miraculously heal Ray Lewis’s torn tricep. I never actually wrote this. Alluded to it, danced around it, joked about it … just never actually came out and wrote it. […]
When Ray Lewis suffered a complete tear of his triceps in mid-October, we thought he was finished for the season … only he returned to action a little more than two months later. During the third month of his “recovery,” he made 17 tackles in a double-overtime playoff game in Denver. In 13-degree weather. At age 37. […]
I believe that Ray Lewis cheated. I believe that to be true based on circumstantial evidence, his age, his overcompetitiveness, the history of that specific injury, and the fact that his “recovery” made my shit detector start vibrating like a chainsaw.
This has been the latest saga of Bill Simmons said and/or tweeted something.
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