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You Don’t Want To Know About The Chuck Fetishes, Barkley Says

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↵Our nation’s ombudsman has spoken: foot fetish or no fetish, Rex Ryan’s still pretty great. What’s more, when Charles Barkley joined Dan Patrick’s radio show recently, he was about any fetishes he might harbor, himself:

↵↵“Clearly you don’t want to be on TV anymore or radio if you don’t want to know about the Chuck fetishes. Hey, I would have the FCC light up like a Christmas tree… But I have got to say this, Rex Ryan is the best. I love Rex Ryan, he is the best.

↵... If I was on that team, the next meeting I would have every player and every coach come in without shoes on, something like that. Dan that is the best thing about playing sports is the time you make fun of each other.”

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You gotta love the segue from Chuck's NC-17 fetishes to, "but hold on a second, Rex Ryan is the best." Then again... He's right, isn't he? Pretty sure now that everyone's digested the foot fetish news, most of us have concluded, "Eh, it's funny, and Rex is still great." And Chuck just verbalized it for us: that's why he's the national ombudsman.

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