Both of the stories of these two men are entirely separate issues, though both brought the Baltimore Ravens organisation into disrepute following varying degrees of controversy. Ray Lewis was dragged into a murder trial after being involved in a fight at the scene of a double-murder. He struck a deal with the court whereby the charges drawn against him were dropped in exchange for testimony against two other men at the scene, and Lewis was only handed a misdemeanour charge for a misleading statement he gave to police after the killings. Seperately, in 2014, Ray Rice was caught on CCTV knocking his fiancee (now wife) unconscious after they returned from partying in a casino. Many felt his two-game suspension and $15,000 fine was not nearly strong enough from the NFL, while the criminal charges were dropped. Both men tarnished the Ravens' name, and their stories intertwined last year as Lewis - now an ESPN TV analyst - spoke about Rice's case, saying: "Some things you can cover up, and then there's some things you can't." Raising eyebrows across the nation...
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