When recently cut Tampa Bay Buccaneers outside linebacker Demone Harris' phone buzzed with a 410 area code on Oct. 17 -- first with a text and then a phone call -- he couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Not only were the Baltimore Ravens signing him to their practice squad, but the lost engagement ring he planned to propose to his girlfriend with had been located and the Ravens were overnighting it to him.
Harris had brought the ring with him to his Oct. 15 workout in Baltimore, in part, so his girlfriend, Ariana Marinelli, wouldn’t find it, but also because it looked like he would have to fly directly to Buffalo for the proposal, which he had spent months planning to coincide with the Bucs’ bye week.