Ok, here's the deal. We are giving away tickets to see the Tampa Bay Rays take on the Kansas City Royals. Years ago, my brother and I played a game where one just shouted out a name and the other had 30 seconds to come with as many people in sports with that first name. When you are growing up and learning sports, it was pretty fun. The fact my brother had a seven year head start on me, being the older brother, he usually had more names than I did.
So let's play the game. By now, you saw the headline and likely have thought of at least one and maybe three people named Ray. The exercise is more fun when you ask a few different people to rattle off names and see who gets mentioned the most.
With that said, here are the top 20 people named Ray:
1. Ray Charles
2. Ray Romano
3. Sugar Ray Leonard (yes, that counts)
4. Ray Bradbury
5. Ray Liotta
6. Ray Lewis
7. Ray Nitschke
8. Ray Rice
9. Raymond Burr
10. Ray Allen
11. Raymond Borque
12. Ray Guy
13. Ray "Boom Boom: Mancini (uh oh, I"m on a sports roll)
14. Ray Stevens
15. Raymond Berry
16. Ray Fosse
17. Ray Parker Jr. (Ghostbusters...the song)
18. Ray Manzarek
19. Ray Childress
20. Rey Mysterio
Cheesy list? Of course. But admit it, you played the game and right now have likely thought about a few other people named Ray......like Knight, Felton and J.
Final thought: Cows do not see the color red
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