{"id":2922,"date":"2013-02-07T19:51:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T00:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:51:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T00:51:08","slug":"ravens-plan-to-build-statue-of-ray-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/02\/07\/ravens-plan-to-build-statue-of-ray-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens plan to build statue of Ray Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2379\" alt=\"raylewis\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/01\/raylewis1.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/01\/raylewis1.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/01\/raylewis1-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/01\/raylewis1-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Johnny Unitas is set to have some company outside M&amp;T Stadium. The Baltimore Ravens are planning to build a <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/8925875\/baltimore-ravens-plan-build-statue-ray-lewis\" target=\"_blank\">statue<\/a> of Ray Lewis, team owner Steve Biscotitti said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis played the final game of his legendary 17-year career in Sunday&#8217;s Super Bowl victory over the 49ers. He was a two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year and 12-time Pro Bowl linebacker.<\/p>\n<p>Bisciotti was unsure of where the statue would be built or how long it would take,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he set himself apart in Baltimore sports history,&#8221; Bisciotti said of Lewis, &#8220;and we will certainly look into it and I would not be surprised if there is one there in the next year or two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Lewis is always welcome to visit and talk to the team but does not believe that the 17-year veteran has any intention of coaching.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis&#8217; son, Ray Lewis III, signed a letter of intent with Miami yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Unitas is set to have some company outside M&amp;T Stadium. The Baltimore Ravens are planning to build a statue of Ray Lewis, team owner Steve Biscotitti said on Thursday. Lewis played the final game of his legendary 17-year career in Sunday&#8217;s Super Bowl victory over the 49ers. He was a two-time NFL Defensive Player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[71],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-2922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ray-lewis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}