-Ara Parseghian, the famous Notre Dame football coach said: “act like you have been there before”. Clearly neither Rex Ryan nor any of his current players have been. From the “Fat Man’s” painful to watch and pathetic display of running, to celebrate the devastating touchdown, to his players constant “airplane flying” antics on the field, the Jets showed themselves to be the classless athletes, not to mention intellects, that they are.
-Rex and his band of idiots spent the week setting a stellar example with vitriol and arrogance, as displayed in interviews. Ryan said, regarding Patriots QB Tom Brady: “Nobody studies like [Manning, as in Peyton Manning, the Indianapolis’s QB]. I know Brady thinks he does and all that stuff, [but] I think there’s probably a little more help from Belicheck [The Patriot’s coach] with Brady than there is with Peyton Manning”.
-Tom Brady has played in 4 Super Bowls and has 3 rings for his victories. He was a 6th round and unheralded draft pick from the University of Michigan (Go Wolverines!). Peyton Manning, to compare resumes, who is no slouch and could and should be argued among the all-time NFL quarterbacking elites (as should Brady), was the first overall draft pick in 1998 and has only 1 Super Bowl ring to his credit (yes, he does have 4 NFL MVP awards – the most in NFL history).
-So Rex, and his band of Biplanes, spent the season, and preseason (as highlighted in their dramatic and much-hyped performance on “Hard Knocks”) shedding profanity and arrogance on television and in the press. Ryan and his team, backing comments from the likes of Antonio Cromarte (Antonio Cromarte cornerback and subject of a third round draft pick to bring him from The San Diego Chargers to the New York Jets largely due to a view that his effort was less than desired by management and ownership, as model citizen, and for reference here, has fathered 9 children with 8 women in 6 states and has been named in 5 paternity suits in the last two years. He has failed to appear in court twice on separate moving violation citations and was given a $500k dollar advance by the Jets so he could make child support payments – a plus I guess) paint a poor picture of what we should be teaching our young athletes, who like it or not, buy their jerseys and spend Sunday’s in front of the television rooting on their favorite players and teams.
-Cromarte, clearly educated in literature or some other liberal arts discipline during his time at Florida State, managed to launch into an expletive laced tirade regarding Tom Brady and was backed in his comments by his coach. Ryan should have handed him a bar of soap and shipped him to the nearest gulag. But Ryan, himself, a blowhard, and clearly as we saw from Sunday, a world champion sprinter, was in no position to chastise his linguistics major and defensive back as he almost managed to get a “XXX” rating on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” with his weekly vulgar verbal antics: once again showing skill, education and deportment (a word he clearly would have to look up).
-I am not arguing here for the civility of Ryan’s weekly opponents. I found Wes Welker’s, o so clever, hidden foot fetish comments neither amusing, nor clever. As is usually the case with the majority of pro athletes, I find they should leave “clever” to their agents and focus their limited skills on the field. What I am saying is that I am tired of the buffoonery of the majority of professional athletes who seem to forget that they are playing a game most of us would love to play. We pay for the right to see them display superior skills: athletic skills.
-I was embarrassed to have my 9 year old question me when reading the quotes and watching the focus on this war of words on ESPN and other pre-game shows. I was not letting my soon watch the Playboy Channel. I was letting him sit with me to watch a game I love and want to share with him.
-Why don’t we just let Rex and his guys blow hard on their own time. Maybe we should propose the NFL rename the team to the “New Jersey Hindenburg’s”, seemingly an appropriate leap given the New Jersey angle (Lakehurst for all you construction helmet-clad J-E-T-S fans is in New Jersey. Now, if you can, go look up the reference). Lord knows with Ryan and his team’s foul mouths, a match might do the trick.
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