The bust is sculpted, the speech is written and the display is ready for the second Baltimore Raven to be enshrined in Canton.
Ray Lewis arrived in Ohio on Wednesday, and told Gerry Sandusky and Dennis Pitta in the booth Thursday night that the trip has given him a chance to reflect. On Wednesday, he spent some time with hall of famer Jonathan Ogden. Ogden was taken fourth and Lewis 26th in the 1996 NFL Draft, the first picks of the Baltimore Ravens.
"We were smoking a cigar, sitting outside just reminiscing, right? Getting to Baltimore, no colors, no logos, no nothing," Lewis recalled.