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’6 Kids 4 Wives. Acquitted for Murder’: Read the Scathing Facebook Message Posted By Wes Welker’s Wife Attacking Ray Lewis

Jan. 22, 2013 9:02am Jonathon M. Seidl

Anna Burns Welker, Wes Welkers Wife, Apologizes for Ray Lews Facebook Message

Anna Burns Welker (L) with wide receiver husband Wes Welker. (Photo source: Deadspin.com)

You may remember that after the New England Patriots lost to the New York Giants in last year’s Super Bowl, quarterback Tom Brady’s wife — supermodel Gisele Bundchen — ripped his teammates for dropping so many passes. Well, now another Patriots player’s wife is making headlines after letting loose on Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis following his team’s win over the Patriots on Sunday.

Anna Burns Welker, whose past life includes a Miss Hooters title, was angry over her husband Wes Welker’s loss. She was also perturbed that Ray Lewis — the team’s star linebacker — has been getting so much attention and praise. Lewis announced a few weeks back that he would retire after this season, and that kicked off a storybook run to the Super Bowl. But Lewis also has a bit of a checkered past, having been charged with murder back in 2000, only to cut a deal and get those charges dropped.

“Proud of my husband and the Pats,” Anna wrote in a message obtained by The Big Lead. But what started out as sweet, quickly turned sour. “By the way, if anyone is bored, please go to Ray Lewis’ Wikipedia page. 6 kids 4 wives. Acquitted for murder. Paid a family off. Yay! What a hall of fame player! A true role model!“

The anti-Lewis rant. (Source: Larry Brown Sports)

The Daily Mail explains exactly what Anna is referring to in her disparaging comments:

Lewis and a group of friends were at the Cobalt Lounge in Atlanta for an after party on January 31 when a heated argument breaks out between Lewis’ group and another set of clubgoers.

One witness later said they saw Lewis throw a punch during the scuffle but no one claimed Lewis held a knife.

Anna Burns of Fayetteville, N.C. poses at the Hooters restaurant in New York, N.Y., Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005. (AP Photo/Adam Rountree)

After Jacinth Baker, 21, and Richard Lollar, 24, were mortally wounded, Lewis and an entourage of 10 piled into a Lincoln Navigator

The two victims died nearly instantly after being knifed to the heart.

Lewis was soon taken into police custody where he admittedly supplied police with false information.

He was then arrested and held without bail. Reginald Oakley and Joseph Sweeting were also arrested.

The trial began less than four months after the homicide.

Two weeks into the proceedings, Lewis agreed to testify against others in exchange for the murder charges being dropped.

He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and received a year of probation.

Even after testifying against Oakley and Sweeting, they were acquitted of murder and assault charges after a jury deliberated for five hours.

Lewis was fined $250,000 by the NFL and later reached a financial settlement with the victims’ families. A confidentiality clause kept the amount secret.

But reaction to Anna’s comments were swift, and she scrambled to do damage control by releasing a statement to Larry Brown Sports apologizing for the comments:

“I’m deeply sorry for my recent post on Facebook. I let the competitiveness of the game and the comments people were making about a team I dearly love get the best of me. My actions were emotional and irrational and I sincerely apologize to Ray Lewis and anyone affected by my comment after yesterday’s game.

“It is such an accomplishment for any team to make it to the NFL playoffs, and the momentary frustration I felt should not overshadow the accomplishments of both of these amazing teams.”

Lewis and the Ravens will take on the San Francisco 49ers in New Orleans on February 3.

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Comments (231)

FlamingFartSyndrome
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:43am
Of course women focus on what football players do outside of football rather than on the field, who gives a crap what ray lewis does on his free time i dont watch him as a role model i watch him as romans watched gladiators in the colosseum.

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Rowgue
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:34am
I don’t see why she apologized. What she said is completely accurate. And the idiotic worship that is heaped upon a complete slimebag and murderer should be balanced out with a reality check. Who says it is of no consequence to me.

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FreeUsAll
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:33am
NBA vs NFL

36 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits, and
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year!

Can you guess which organization this is?

Is it the NBA or NFL?

Neither, it’s the 535 members of the U.S. Congress.

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- grimjack3791
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:42am
  We have a winner!
  
  (Next time post a souce link, however.)
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:47am
  “No, Seriously, the NFL Really Does Have a Domestic Violence Problem”
  By Justin Peters | Posted Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012
  
  On Monday, two days after Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher murdered his girlfriend and then committed suicide, I wrote about domestic violence and the NFL. In that post, I looked at a San Diego Union-Tribune database of NFL arrest records and searched for incidents domestic violence or sexual assault. I found that 21 of 32 NFL teams, at one point this year, had employed a player with a domestic violence or sexual assault charge on his record.
  
  Obviously, the NFL arrests database doesn’t include crimes that weren’t reported to the police, which makes it hard to compare NFL arrests against the NCVS statistics. What has been shown in research is that professional athletes are much less likely to be convicted of intimate violence crimes than are non-athletes. In a 1997 study, Northeastern University’s Jeffrey Benedict and Alan Klein found that the athletes in their sample who were charged with sexual assault were only convicted 31 percent of the time, compared with a 54 percent conviction rate for the general population. In 1995, Maryann Hudson at the Los Angeles Times found that athletes charged with domestic violence were only convicted 36 percent of the time, compared with a 77 percent general conviction rate. In a 2010 Harvard Law Review article, Bethany Withers wrote that “conviction rates for athletes are astonishingly low compared
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:32am
Welker should have stuck to her guns despite the consequences. Back peddling like this just makes you look WEAK. To the dude up above who said, “we all have skeletons in our closets” well stabbing two people to DEATH in a club is not what I would call a skeleton, ya know? MURDER is pretty serious dude. And covering it up with money and a free pass and probation is disgusting. By definition, a “skeleton in the closet” is when you as a chick kissed some other chick in high school in gym class. Or smoked a little weed. Or stole a car as a teenager. Or something DUMB like that. However, it does not apply to stabbing to death two people as an adult. That is no skeleton dude! That is about all that means. But you are a dude so you don’t have a clue about that!

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SamIamTwo
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:29am
“Lewis agreed to testify against others in exchange for the murder charges being dropped.”

pfft, he flipped.

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Bamagal0007
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:24am
Sounds like sour grapes to me…she couldn’t handle the fact that the Ravens put a smack down on the Pats in the 2nd half and her bitterness shows.

Congrats to the 49ers and Colin Kapernick(?) and the Ravens and Joe Flacco, they deserve to be there.

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ssfloatnfly
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:24am
why do any one of you even watch professional sports? Sports are a kids game, for children. All those players making millions to play with a ball. Most are drug addicts, steriod users (fake) Hi Lance, mean while all the hard working people who support these thugs barely get by. School teachers do more for society, have more of an impact on a childs life and get paid squat. In the beginning of pro sports athletes had to work a second job during the off season. They are now made to be idols, teams cause rivals, division… All planned to further divide. Hollywood, it;s all part of the Demonic Indoctranation that has and is taking place. All is not what it seems!!!

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John.Galt
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:23am
Well, she is VERY WHITE, and Ray is VERY BLACK… so the only possible conclusion is…

SHE IS A RACIST!! AFTER ALL, IF OBAMA HAD A SON HE WOULD LOOK LIKE RAY LEWIS!

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Al J Zira
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:22am
That whole phony display by Lewis during the anthem was a disgrace. Of course the cameras couldn’t get enough and I had to change the channel. This behavior is why I stopped watching football.

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Hard
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:22am
Oh you mean “Stabbin” Ray Lewis? Thug life foevah yo! Another rich murdering thug gets off by paying off the witnesses. No story here so move along.

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SI08
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:22am
Irregardles of what Ray Lewis is or was, she is a sore loser. Her attempt at damage control was insincere at best. If you say it, stand behind your statement irregardles if people agree with you or not.

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CaliforniaScreaming
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:19am
Dumb posting by her, too public, too emotional after a loss. But I’ve been saying the same thing for years to my fellow football fans. Two people are dead, and Lewis knows who did it. That doesn’t make him a hero, it makes him a coward.

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John.Galt
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:18am
How old is she? Oh that’s right, she’s from the generation that nevers grows up.

So, her husband LOST, and now she needs to justify it BY RIPPING THE OTHER PLAYERS.

Yes, I heard that your husband is an aboslute ANGEL, without SIN, and is, IN FACT, THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST… NOT!

Get over it. You are probably upset that your hubby is home now and you have less time to spend with your BOYFRIENDS!

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SCARY313568
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:12am
SORE LOSER! First off Lewis may be a thug but to personally attack him because of his past is ridiculous. The Murder charges were dropped and he was with a group and the individual who committed murder. He initially lied for his friend and then pled guilty to obstruction in return for his testimony. Granted LEwis is no pillar to society but get over it. Since the trial he has been nothing but a dedicated player who gives back to the community and generally represents himself pretty well.

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- Bamagal0007
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 12:20pm
  Agreed…and she was once a rold model for young women everywhere…a hooters girl…lol.
  
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IfNotNowWhen
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:05am
Ray Lewis cries more than JOHN BOEHNER but none of the press has the guts to say anything about that. Yes, I also agree he got away with murder but it’s funny that no one (even on the Blaze) focuses on the 6 kids 4 wives part. It’s a shame that it is so normal that it is overlooked.

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AnAmerican111
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:05am
The truth hurts!…………………..
Girl said nothing but the truth…………………..
You can do that in America!

Heck. You can even lie all the time and still get a way with it……..Just look at Obama!

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hauschild
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:00am
Ouch!!!

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love the kids
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:55am
Anyone watch Pawn Stars last night? Dennis Rodmans ex-wife was selling some of his jersey’s for money so their child can go to college. All that was talked about was how long he played, greatest rebounder ever, team leader. Yet his sorry a_ _ can’t even pay after making over 100 million for his own child to go to college, 6 years from now, there will be the story on how the NFL cheated Lewis and that’s why he is broke. It is such a sad world.

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:55am
Call Um Out Girl. Dang. What a Bod!

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:52am
The girl stumbled upon the old ‘double-standard’ in this country and realized some are more equal than others…..especially if their ancestors are from Africa. She told the truth and then the world came down on her and she had to apologize for speaking that way about a member of the protected species.

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denkat56
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:45am
Veritas vincet

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mikegx66
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:45am
You can take the rat out of the hood but you cant take the hood out of the rat hood …hood mantality will prevail i predict he will have legal problems before he can make into the Hall of Fame if he does his statue should be next to OJ’s…… OH THATS RIGHT HE WAS AQUITED TOO

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RaydocX
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:32am
Mrs. Welker is entitled to her opinion… she might be careful where she espouses it, as that could lashback on her husband, who I doubt is without his aggression associated confrontations over his lifetime.

Ray Lewis had some truly dark times, and questionable behaviors and colleagues… so much for a land of second chances, of Not Guilty verdicts meaning anything, and of people being able to change and grow…

I suspect this is the standard liberal line… mouth the platitudes, claim it is possible, until it opposes your desires, then tear down anything that is different.

I do not know Mr. Lewis. I hope he has better his life and the lives of those around him given his second chance. There are too many others who have never been made to face the consequences of their actions at all, and who continue to ‘misbehave’ at all levels of today’s civilization.

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Gladileftcalifornia
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:31am
Leave her alone…retired prostitutes have rights too.

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FoxRules
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:20am
Another Obamaite at her best showing a serious lack of ability to deal in the real world when they don’t get their way… SPOILT LITTLE TWIT GET PROFESSIONAL HELP!

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