Rex Ryan Brings a (Food) Blitz on Every (Sit)Down

Jets coach Rex Ryan is getting his rightful plaudits this week for getting his team to the conference championship in his first year with a rookie quarterback. His brash candor has charmed the media throughout the 2009 season, which was going on as early as his preseason trash talk with the Dolphins’ Channing Crowder.↵↵But this is the week of a big playoff game in a huge media market, meaning personal profiles need to be churned out. Meaning the public is now privy to the outsized eating habits of Rex, who reportedly puts away about 7,000 calories per day. That diet, which would result in a 10 lb. weight gain for your average person, includes a lot of Mexican, which the coach enjoys so heartily, he’s taken to calling it “Rexican”.↵

↵↵But when you love food that much, it’s never isolated to just one type of cuisine. Nor will you let the occasional diet stand in your way of food subterfuge.↵

↵↵⇥While dieting a few years ago, an assistant spied Ryan toting a pizza to his hotel room. When confronted, Ryan claimed it was for his son Seth. ↵⇥↵⇥But the next day, when the assistant asked Seth about the pie, the boy replied, “What pizza?”↵⇥

↵↵ ↵↵And yet it was Mark Sanchez of all people who got in trouble for sneaking in a hot dog on the Jets sideline earlier this season. If only he’d gone with nachos, he would have been all right.↵

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