Somebody find Rainman-HOF Finalists announced

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Aside from Ray Lewis, it’s fairly spot on.

Ray Lewis led two Super Bowl Teams, nearly 15 years apart, to two Lombardi Trophy’s.

Off field speculation aside, he’s a First Ballot HOFer.

I'll concede that he was an effective player, even highly effective. I don't think he was Ed Reed-type good or even Terrell Suggs good, but he was effective. I just feel like he was a one-man hype machine who always overrated his contributions and was a big blowhard about them.

He reminds me of a guy I knew in my teen years. The guy would say something that wasn't really funny, and then he would laugh really loud and long and repeat it two or three times and laugh really loud and long each time. Over time, people started saying, "Oh, that guy. He's pretty funny."

No. He wasn't funny. Yes, you heard laughing any time he was around, but it was him laughing, followed by sympathetic tittering from other people. I would challenge people to pay attention and judge for themselves whether he was funny, but it was a losing cause. He singlehandedly constructed a reputation just by laughing at his own really bad jokes.

Ray Lewis is the football version of that guy.*


* - Disclaimer. The unfunny guy I knew in my teen years wasn't involved in any murders.