{"id":19200,"date":"2013-01-21T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19200"},"modified":"2013-01-21T17:04:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T22:04:14","slug":"ray-lewis-ravens-take-the-long-way-to-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19200","title":{"rendered":"Ray Lewis, Ravens Take The \u2018Long Way\u2019 To The Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOXBOROUGH, Mass. \u2014 Two cities have hoped to host the final game in the stomping, screaming, shoulder-checking 16-year NFL career of <strong>Ray Lewis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Two cities have been disappointed by the Baltimore Ravens and the linebacker they call \u201c<strong>Mufasa<\/strong>.\u201d Nursing a surgically repaired right triceps, <strong>Lewis<\/strong> collected a team-high 14 tackles with nine in the first half as the Ravens defeated the New England Patriots 28-13 in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday night at Gillette Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lewis<\/strong> thanked God and exchanged hugs with team owner <strong>Steve Bisciotti<\/strong> on the field and<strong> Michael Phelps<\/strong> in the locker room. \u201cFor Baltimore,\u201d <strong>Lewis<\/strong> and the Olympic swimming legend agreed. And it was<strong> Lewis\u2019<\/strong> teammates who did all the roaring about their \u201cLion King.&#8221; \u201cThere\u2019s no better leader,\u201d linebacker <strong>Terrell Suggs<\/strong> said. \u201cThat\u2019s <strong>Mufasa<\/strong>. He said this is his last ride, so we might as well make it special for him. He\u2019s led us here. He busted his tail to get back and make a run with us, and we still have one more win to get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The linebacker, who announced his retirement at the onset of these playoffs, will play but one more game \u2013 Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday, Feb. 3 in New Orleans. After Championship Sunday, the San Francisco 49ers stand between <strong>Lewis<\/strong> and a second title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOXBOROUGH, Mass. \u2014 Two cities have hoped to host the final game in the stomping, screaming, shoulder-checking 16-year NFL career of Ray Lewis. Two cities have been disappointed by the Baltimore Ravens and the linebacker they call \u201cMufasa.\u201d Nursing a surgically repaired right triceps, Lewis collected a team-high 14 tackles with nine in the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}