Ray Lewis Returns to the Ravens

Maybe he was a jerk about it, but the outcome is one that the market created and Baltimore Ravens fans expected. Ray Lewis will finish his career with the Ravens, bringing to a close one of the strangest free-agency periods for a Hall-of-Fame player in recent memory.

Lewis comes back to Baltimore amongst mixed emotions from the Raven fan base.

Most can now collectively exhale about the heart of a defense that, with the departure of Rex Ryan, Bart Scott, and Jim Leonhard to the New York Jets, will need his leadership and fire more than a high level of performance.

But there are some who lament the irresponsible way in which he handled the first taste of free agency of his career—the rumors about the Dallas Cowboys telephone calls, the dismissal of a hometown discount, and the whispers of retiring before returning to Baltimore.

And then he figured out, that only one team would take on a 34-year-old linebacker with a recent history of injury.

With all of it, we welcome him back with open arms. The hugs won’t be as tight, and the cheers won’t be as loud, but we welcome him back.

And Matt Birk, too.

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