Ray Lewis is sure to draw the ire of fans for these comments.
Lewis spoke on ESPN’s Pro Bowl pregame show Sunday and shared his opinion on deflategate. Lewis, who preaches the principles of integrity, working hard and doing things the right way, believes the Pats cheated.
“Every time we talk about the Patriots, you have the Patriots fans … you get all the talk about the jealous of them and all that. I won two Super Bowls, I’ve been Defensive Player of the Year, I’ve been MVP of the Super Bowl, I’ve went to New England and won … so I’m not jealous of them at all,” Lewis said.
“But the integrity of this game. Marshawn Lynch … the league clearly said to him, ‘If you come out of the tunnel with those shoes on, we will not only suspend you for this game, but we will suspend you for the Super Bowl.’ Now we’re back at another place where we let a team go into an AFC Championship, and if it’s proven that they played with deflated balls … because if it’s not cheating, then the Colts should have had the same option to play with the same balls. So we’re at a place now where we’re going to celebrate an organization once again, put an asterisk by it, because they went into a championship game.
“The integrity of this game! That’s not the way you go into games trying to win football games.”