Is Rex Ryan The Hindenburg? The Rexinburg Rolls Out

Newsreel reporter: It burst into flames! Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Get this, Charlie! Get this, Charlie! It's fire and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! It's burning, bursting into flames and is falling on the mooring mast, and all the folks agree that this is terrible. This is the worst of the worst

On the Hindenburg crashing and burning in New Jersey

The Hindenburg was a large gassy object that crashed, smashed, and burned in New Jersey.

The Hindenburg loved publicity, the more noise, the more seats sold, and blew up publicly and spectacularly.  

Does that sound like a Hard Knocks Episode that would draw raves and ratings.

"Coincidence?," as Cool Hand Luke said, I think not.

I like Rex Ryan.

He's a breath of loud, often obnoxious, fresh air.

Who wants a coach bot like Lovie Smith standing and answering questions in cliches or Baghdad Bob Bear like everything is going great sound bytes....even when the Green Bay Packers just trounced his Bears by forty four.

Other coaches take the Bill Belichick snappish sound byte bark back. All questions are annoying and stupid and posed by even more moronic and obnoxious cretins.

This works if your team wins rings.

But if you watch the surly coach of the terrible Cleveland Browns or the always angry happy Jack Del Rio in Jacksonville, it wears thin.

It's better to have coaches with personality.

George Halas, Vince Lombardi, Hank Stram, Weeb Ewbank, Paul Brown, and George Allen were all coaches great coaches that had personality.

Mike Ditka, while not a great coach, at least made the Chicago Bears interesting.

Roger Goodell prefers polite, non oath spewing, boring coach bots who drone out programmed response.

But the rub for Rex Ryan is now he has to win.

And win big.

Win Super Bowl Namath big.

Rex's blather and bluster has put his ball club in a hot spot in front of the biggest, and potentially the nastiest, media in the world.

Al Swearengen of David Milch's Deadwood said announcing your plans is a sure way to hear God laugh.

Last years New Jets weren't exactly the 1985 Chicago Bears either.

They were a barely five hundred ball club with an unproven quarterback, Mark Sanchez, and a below average passing attack.

The Jets jettisoned their best runner, Thomas Jones, and replaced a veteran run blocker, Alan Fancea, with an unproven player. 

The Jets open at home against the Baltimore Ravens then draw the New England Patriots in Jersey and travel to Miami to meet the Dolphins to complete the opening trifecta.

Those teams will be savagely attacking Sanchez.

Green Gotham fans dropping thousands of bucks for seats in a bad economy will turn feral and vicious if the Jets stagger out 0-3.

Nothing, save perhaps sweet Philadelphia, is more quaint than the feral fans of New York. 

Ernest Hemingway said always do sober what you say when your drunk because it will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

The New York Jets seem a bit drunk on their own press clippings. 

We will see if the Baltimore Ravens blitz sobers the Jets up.

And shuts Rex up.

Or blows up above Jersey like the Rexinburg.