Sports

I wonder . . . .

.. . . . . Who ever asked Rex Ryan to “kiss Bill Belichick’s rings” and why, if the new Jets coach hadn’t said that,  whoever would believe he and team were totally intimidated by the Patriots?   Most of these Jets beat the Patriots last year in Foxoboro, so why would the new coach think they are cowed And why, like his Dad, Buddy,  is Ryan so insecure that he has to make himself the story? That’s the first truth revealed by this compulsive truth teller.

. . . .why the Vikings would want a soon-to-be 40-year-old quarterback, coming off a  year with ample evidence his best days are long behind him?  But I don’t wonder at all what posseesses Brett Favre to be so reluctant to give up the very thing that for more than two decades has defined — which includes, of course, self-defined — him.

As for tarnishing the legend, I don’t think for a second that anyone other than in New York or Minnesota will remember a thing about Favre’s final seasons, only what he did in Green Bay. Despite Willie Mays’s vividly embrassing stumbles in the 1973 World Series, I still remember him as the best all-around player I ever have seen.

Cynical as I am about his waffling and what it has done to the Vikings, Favre has eanred the right to go out on his own terms.  Why would he take the hint, when someone is investing up to $25 million in the belief he still can  play at a high level?Â