Ray Lewis again denies PED use, calls Sports Illustrated report a ‘funny’ story

Ray Lewis

Ray Lewis called Mitch Ross, the co-owner of Sports With Alternatives to Steroids who said he gave Lewis performance-enhancing drugs, a “coward” with “no credibility” on Wednesday.

Lewis, in New Orleans for Sunday’s Super Bowl, also said he was “agitated” over the Sports Illustrated report that he used treatments including deer-antler spray, which contains a substance (IGF-1) banned by the NFL, to recover from a triceps injury earlier this season.

“Our world is a very secret society,” Lewis said of the NFL. “We try to protect our world as much as we can. When you let cowards come in and do things like that, to try to disturb something, I’ve said it before and I’ve said a million times, the reason why I’m smiling is because it’s so funny of a story.

“I’ve never, ever took what he says I was supposed to do. It’s just sad that someone can have this much attention on a stage this big where the dreams are really real. I don’t need it, my teammates don’t need it, the 49ers don’t need it. Nobody needs it because it just really shows you that people really plan things and try to attack people from the outside. It’s just very foolish. The guy has no credibility. He’s been sued four or five times over this same B.S. I just truly believe he doesn’t have the privilege for me to speak about it ever again.”

Lewis missed 10 games with the triceps injury and reportedly used a number of SWATS treatments, including the deer-antler spray, to speed his recovery. Ross told ESPN Radio last week that Lewis “used every product I had” and is only denying it because he may be “scared of [Roger] Goodell.”

However, a professor at Johns Hopkins University told The Baltimore Sun that, despite SWATS’ claims, there isn’t an acceptable scientific way that IGF-1 can be delivered orally.

“If there were, a lot of people would be happy that they don’t need to get shots anymore,” Dr. Roberto Salvatori told the Sun. “It’s just simply not possible for it to come from a spray.”

Despite his demeanor at the press conference, Lewis maintained, that he wasn’t angry about the report — in fact, that he’s never angry — because he is “too blessed to be stressed.”

“You can use a different word,” he said. “You can use the word agitated, because I’m here to win the Super Bowl. I’m not here to entertain somebody that doesn’t affect that one way or another. The word agitated is probably better.”

7 Comments for “Ray Lewis again denies PED use, calls Sports Illustrated report a ‘funny’ story”

1. Marsha Faulk Says:
   January 30th, 2013 at 2:30 pm

   I feel cheated out of our AFC Championship !!!

2. Dbag Says:
   January 30th, 2013 at 2:31 pm

   Is this really a surprise?!? Lewis lied about a murder did you really think he would admit using PEDs? Maybe the deer-antler spray is hiding out with his white suit. Of course, I’m sure half the NFL has been on the juice at one time or another.

3. K. Trout Says:
   January 30th, 2013 at 2:43 pm

   Class act all the way around….hey I dunno if you heard, but he’s retiring?!

4. Mike Says:
   January 30th, 2013 at 2:56 pm

   So the tapes would be phony? This guy is the biggest showboating fraud in NFL history.

5. jj Says:
   January 30th, 2013 at 2:56 pm

   Tell Suggs if the ravens win, those rings will be fake as well as their championship.

6. jj Says:
   January 30th, 2013 at 5:09 pm

   Funny … maybe

   True … probably

7. patsfan Says:
   January 30th, 2013 at 9:32 pm

   leave the c and l off of class please

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