He explained the shock and disappointment of getting that news in that December interview but not before the Tyson impression slipped out.
“I just laugh it off because one of these days,” Lewis said, “I’m going to memorize one of them Mike Tyson speeches and get paid for it.”
Fellow outside linebacker Jamey Mosley cracked up when asked about the vocal parallels between his teammate and Iron Mike. It’s that sensibility that Mosley credits for his friend getting through the fall after tearing his ACL.
“That could be devastating,” Mosley said, “having something like that happen two years in a row, especially with the expectations he has as a player and the person he is, it could be devastating.