“No Rings Since Jordan Left” - Ray Lewis Opens Up About His Relationship With Michael Jordan

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🗓️ 7 September 2025

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Ray Lewis shares how moving from safety to linebacker changed his life forever, guided by Coach Ernest Joe. He also recalls being heartbroken when his idols Joe Montana and Michael Jordan switched teams, inspiring his vow never to leave home and to define loyalty through his career.

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0:00.0	And nobody don't know this, but that was crazy because that was one of the things that we discussed.
0:07.0	Don't ever leave home, no matter what.
0:10.6	So I remember telling him two of the stories that broke my heart, which was Joe Montana, leaving Casey.
0:19.0	Yeah, going from the 49th to Casey.
0:21.5	Broke my heart.
0:24.4	Serious.
0:25.2	No.
0:27.4	You got to think now.
0:29.8	This is before I had made it and anything.
0:31.9	Joe Montana was my favorite player on the football field.
0:36.5	A defensive guy has the offensive guy's favorite player?
0:40.1	You got to remember, my defensive prowess started fully in college.
0:46.1	I played offense 90% of the time in high school.
0:51.1	Yeah.
0:51.6	Come on, Pete.
0:52.3	What position?
0:53.0	Running back.
0:54.0	Kick off return, punt punt return if I touch it
0:56.2	I'm scoring yeah I was a bad boy yeah but that's that's how me offensively um and then by the time
1:10.1	we got on like from the defense aside it on, like from the defense side, it was just like, what the break?
1:14.7	Because I play safety.
1:16.4	I never played linebacker.
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