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Sep 11 2007 3:28PM EDT

Ray Lewis Remains Marketable, Despite Checkered Past

Ray Lewis continues to score on and off the field, misdeeds notwithstanding.

Apparel company Under Armour Inc. choose the Baltimore Ravens All-Pro middle linebacker who was almost certainly wearing the company's cleats when his team opened its season last night with a loss at Cincinnati.

The Baltimore-based performance apparel company said Lewis has signed a multiyear deal, according to the
Baltimore Business Journal.

Lewis' public image was tarnished following a Super Bowl party in January 2000 after which two men were stabbed to death outside of an Atlanta nightclub. Lewis went for a guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of obstruction of justice and agreed to testify against two men he was with, each of whom were charged with murder.

Lewis was sentenced to a year of unsupervised probation and though he was not suspended by the NFL, he was fined a league record $250,000.

11-raylewis-large.jpg Photo of Ray Lewis by Rob Tringali/Sportschrome

"Ray's a performance guy, which matches our brand, and he brings a lot to a team on and off the field as well," Steve Battista, Under Armour's vice president of brand marketing said.

Amazing isn't it?

And sad.


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