Can we all agree here that the Rex Ryan “Mark Sanchez tattoo”
controversy is a “New York story”; you know the product of a fan base that can
only be described as a bit hysterical. The Jets have been a disaster this
season but that debacle is the product of many (Rex included) and shouldn’t be
cheapened with this overemphasis on a MARRIED man rocking a tat of his wife.
He’ll meet the Piranha on Tuesday; and I would question the sanity and “Man
Card” of any reporter that wasted 10 seconds to ask him about what the New York
Post is calling Rex’s “Kinky Inky”. There’s plenty of time for Vinnie in
Yonkers to get his pound of flesh on Rex’s mishandling of Tebow and the lack of
weapons on offense but if Vinnie see’s anything wrong with a man digging his
old lady then Vinnie is living in his mom’s basement. Yeah I know, sports is
supposed to be serious and an escape for men but I don’t want to be anywhere
that minimizes women and their singular ability to make us smile when the going
gets tough. The man just had the worst season of his life, and he went on a
short getaway with the only person who actually gives a shit about him-his
wife. Fan love is not only transient, it ain't real, just ask Tom Coughlin about
the fickle nature of “NY Love”, they try to fire him every other year and he
won two Super Bowls!.
Fans don’t even care if a guy is an immoral scumbag if he
wins so spare me with the righteous indignation about a tattoo and jersey
number that seemed harmless 2 years ago, before New York decided Mark Sanchez
was the Antichrist. I also find it funny how we as fans lose a lot in our own
lives and yet only respect winning from our athletes and coaches, in my opinion
Rex is a good coach coming off a bad season but a winning husband. The divorce
rate is what it is because a lot of women married as long as Michelle Ryan (25
Years) don’t get the same treatment she enjoys; I’m sure there are MILLIONS of
50 year old women out there who wish their husbands still found them “hot”. How
many buddies do YOU have married as long as Rex who still makes their wives the
sole (don’t laugh) focus of all their sexual attention? Most successful men in
society when they start making money make “strange ass” their first “perk” of
advancement, and most of them enter into the Fetish community without their
wives!. We can’t even expect this from Men we Vote for, men we allow to make
decisions on what to do with our tax dollars, and if you turn from ESPN every
now and then you’ll find they lose a whole lot more than Football games.
Remember back in 2010 when Rex made the comment that he and Tom Brady were both
married to Super Models and the whole press corps snickered? I’m sure many
“fans” did too, you know the guy who didn’t notice his woman just walked by the
TV wearing a lace camisole? Yeah that guy. The joke is actually on that guy,
Rex knew he’d get a laugh because that’s his thing but if you were noticing he
said it with a straight face-your woman would notice it, while you’re looking
at Tom Brady’s unattainable wife. Suzy Favor Hamilton probably dealt with the
same kind of stale, mind numbingly boring Sex life that a lot of “all work”
cats dish out, just add some peripheral mental health issues and you have the
making of a high end escort. Good women do bad things all the time; many do
them because they’re husbands stopped paying attention-Rex is merely making
sure Michelle does bad things with him. If we were paying attention to anything
but the jersey Number we’d notice that the image of his wife was damned sexy; homage
to her ass NOT his mediocre quarterback.
Men are supposed to be able to compartmentalize, to not let
disappointment in one area spill over into another area but the New York Post
seems to be devoid of this internal software. I can separate Rex Ryan’s role in
this year’s collapse from his much reported sex life with his wife. In fact I
think if he were as committed to being imaginative in his role as Jets Coach
the way he is with his wife the Jets would be doing just fine. If he were a
more Kinky Coach he’d have invented something productive to do with Tebow and
found a 6’4 WR in the draft nobody ever heard of. Maybe his fetishism of defense
is something he got from the old man, but I’m all for any man loving his own wife’s
feet- I also think the guy who factors in the latter when assessing Ryan’s 4
year Coaching tenure is probably not somebody who can keep his own home fires
lit.
Coaching an NFL Team is probably the most demanding in sports
and many men handle the stress in many different ways. Markets like New York
are competitive and demanding with a ravenous fan base that not only demand
accountability but content- sometimes any old bullshit content. However, in our
thirst to consume sports we can’t forfeit certain values that make us what the
Mafia used to call “stand up guys”. Know when something is beneath you as a
MAN, because sometimes when you have your fan hat on you venture into
unbecoming area’s that obscure the fact that you’re someone’s Dad. If you have
to be told this tattoo story isn’t something to ridicule in Rex Ryan, then
you’re probably not a Cat who just “knows” and you’ll always have trouble with
the ladies. Guys who “know” in New York probably blow this tattoo thing off and
have more concern about who the new GM is going to be, the kind of guys who
don’t wear jersey’s themselves…Past the age of 30.
Respect Rex Ryan’s Mack Game, but hold him accountable for
upping his “Coach Game” in 2013-It’s as simple as that.
