Ray Lewis linked to banned substance in Sports Illustrated report

Hang in there. This gets weirder.

Ross showed up in New Orleans to give an impromptu press conference with a collection of football writers. The NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport documented the press conference on Twitter beautifully.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that deer antlers can help professional athletes. Or maybe it was convincing Sports Illustrated to publish PED allegations about Ray Lewis just a few days before the Super Bowl. Who can say!

Well, Ray Lewis can. After Tuesday brought news of a wonderfully insane scandal involving deer antler pills and the Ravens superstar, he responded.

“What I do know about that is Ray has worked incredibly and extremely hard to get back,” Harbaugh told reporters on Tuesday. “So I hate to see anything diminish ... the work ethic that he’s put in to get to where he is now.”

As Lewis said during his time in front of the microphone on Tuesday, Harbaugh quickly referenced the random drug tests that Lewis and all NFL players are subject to, all of which the 17-year veteran has passed.

Ross said he thinks S.W.A.T.S. has been unfairly targeted by the NFL, but that won’t keep him from attempting to form an exclusive partnership with one team. He said he wants to partner with one team and supply them with products from S.W.A.T.S. in order to show the product effectiveness. The company’s deer antler velvet spray contains IGF-1 and is banned by the NFL, but that isn’t the only product the company offers.

While the effectiveness, and NFL legality of S.W.A.T.S. products remains to be seen, finding a team willing to partner with the company could prove to be quite the challenge.

Ray Lewis and the rest of the Super Bowl players are in the middle of Media Day Tuesday, but while he answers questions about Sunday’s game this afternoon, the rest of this week should bring plenty of questions about his triceps injury a few months ago.

Tuesday he was asked about a report from Sports Illustrated at Super Bowl media day and said, “Two years ago that was the same report. I wouldn’t give that report or him any of my press. He’s not worthy of that.”