Rex Gets His Sanchez Jets Tattoo Filled In With Buffalo Bills Blue
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Despite middling results with the New York Jets, Rex Ryan became one of the most beloved coaches in the National Football League, winning followers with his sincerity, salty mouth and unapologetic bravado. Jets players and fans adored him. He returned the sentiment, most indelibly by getting a tattoo on his upper right arm that depicted his wife, Michelle, as a pinup model wearing nothing but a Jets jersey. In December, the Jets fired Mr. Ryan after six seasons and a 4-12 record in 2014. The Buffalo Bills hired him as their new head coach two weeks later. That left him with a question: What should he do with the tattoo? He came up with the $80 answer on Friday. Mr. Ryan went to an Arizona tattoo parlor, where an artist darkened the jersey’s color from Jets green to Bills blue. “I mean, you’ve got to turn the page,” he said. The coach also rid himself of almost all his Jets apparel. That included the black sweater vests he superstitiously wore almost every game, pieces of Jets lore that each could be worth as much as $1,000, according to collectibles-dealer Heritage Auctions. Unclear is the current whereabouts of the sweater vests. Mr. Ryan said his wife donated all his Jets gear to the Salvation Army in suburban New Jersey, where thrift-store shoppers might have unknowingly bought clothes once worn by the popular coach.
I feel like the Jets should have gotten to black out this ink, Sons Of Anarchy style. Rex was more or less out of the club. Lucky he didnt have to meet Mr. Mayhem after that 4-12 debacle of a season. Nick Mangold should have gotten to smear that ink off. I dont care that Rex was patched over into Buffalo’s club. You got a Mark Sanchez Jets tattoo in maybe the biggest bonehead move of all time and now you gotta pay the price. You went to a team in the same division so now all bets are off. We black out your sexy little wife tattoo and if you want to get an EJ Manuel Bills tat you’ve got another arm to work with.
Personally I think its best to just stop getting tattoos of shitty quarterbacks on shitty teams and just stick to the full leg tribal ink
PS – Seriously NEED to find what Good Will store ended up landing Rex’s green shades:
Need a pair of those. What brand are they?