Is It Real or Fake? Ryan's Sanchez Tattoo Is Classic

I'm not a big fan of tattoos or Rex Ryan but I have to admit, when I heard about the new tattoo Ryan was sporting on his arm, while relaxing on the beach down in the Bahamas, I couldn't wait to see it.

A picture of Ryan's unveiled tattoo appears on both the front and back cover of the NY Daily News this morning. The tattoo appears to be of his wife Michelle, wearing a Marc Sanchez jersey posing in  a position that has come to know as "Tebowing", made famous by Jets backup quarterback Tim Tebow.

For obvious reasons if you follow the Jets, it's a strange and bizarre tattoo for Ryan or any NFL head coach to have inked on his arm and many doubt that it is real. After all, why would a coach tattoo a current players jersey on his arm when he may not be coaching the team or the player in years to come?

The speculation is that Ryan, with his strange whit and sense of humor, had the tattoo painted on to play games with team beat writers who may have followed him down to the Bahamas, to see how he was spending time on vacation instead of being in NY and answering questions from the media after the end of the Jets season, as mandated by NFL policy.

Regardless of whether the tattoo is real or fake or Ryan's motives for getting the tattoo, it is a classic that I am sure many will end up copying.

Princess the Camel is Back and Picks the 49ers Over the Jets

Here it is week 4 of the NFL and I'm just getting around to posting the picks of Princess, the prognosticating Camel of Popcorn Park Zoo.

She has been busy making her pick and thus far has a W2-1L record, having chosen correctly in weeks 1&2, the Jets over the Bill and Giants over the Bucs. She nearly made it 3 in a row last week with her pick of the Dolphins over the Jets if it weren't for a missed field goal in OT by the Dolphins placekicker.

This week Princess is looking to get back to her winning ways (and to be frank, I don't see how her pick can lose this week). Princess has picked the San Francisco 49ers to beat the NY Jets, saying of the Jets and head Coach Rex Ryan, "He lost his best defensive player last week for the season. Now he’s putting a running back in that position …. who know's what he’s going to have Tebow doing this week .... punt team, hold the ball for the place kicker or maybe sing the National Anthem???. The whole thing is starting to turn into a mess."

Has Princess made the right choice this week? We'll find out tomorrow, but I think she has. There is now way the Jets will be able to exploit the 49ers defense, it's just to good, or the firepower of their offense.

It very well could be a long day for Marc Sanchez and the Jets.

NFL Week 12 Is Nearly Over But Not Before Princess Picks The Saint In Monday Night Match-Up Vs The Giants

It's been a long Thanksgiving weekend between eating turkey, Black Friday shopping and watching football, so seeing how Princess the Camel decided to choose this weeks Monday night match-up between the New Orleans Saints and the NY Giants as this weeks game in which to issue her prognostication it has given me a little more time to post about it.

If you recall from my last Princess post for NFL week 11, she picked the NY Jets to beat the Denver Broncos in a game that the Jets unfortunately went on to loose.

It was a bad loss for the Jets, it set off a fire storm of criticism in the media, put the Jets play-off hope at risk and lead Coach Rex Ryan to publicly humiliate Quarterback Marc Sanchez by taking away some of his practice time with the first string offense.

In this weeks game Princess seems to have made the a predictable safe prediction after two straight very close loosing predictions (Giants over Niners, Jets over Broncos). Princess says that the New Orleans Saints will beat the NY Giants in New Orleans to close out week 12 in the NFL on Monday night.

"...the blue on the Giants is a little faded and I think they are too. The defense is in disarray and they looked almost as bad as the Jets defense. The Saints are tough especially in their own building. Someone has to step up and take control of the Giants, until then…"

Princess record at picking games this year is currently 6W-5L, I think after this game her record will be even. I just can't imagine after two bad losses in a row,the last one being a total shellacking by the Eagles, that the Giants will stink it up three weeks in a row.

I think the Giants will be ready for this game even though their offensive line is being reconstructed this week and they will be playing without runningback Ahmad Bradshaw. The Giants defense will hold the Saints in check just enough for Eli Manning to work enough voodoo in his New Orleans homecoming.

It will be close, I'm thinking somewhere along the lines of say, 20-17 Giants.

Princess The Camel Picks Steelers Over Jets in Todays AFC Championship Game

Well folks, its been a while since I posted about Princess, the prognosticating camel of Popcorn Park Zoo, in Lacy Township.

Her current record for picking winners this season stands at an impressive 11W - 9L. So far this season Princess has a predicted the outcome of 10 Jets games and has accumulated a mediocre 5-5 record thus far. In the last 3 game against the Steelers (regular season), Colts and Patriots (playoffs), Princess has chosen against the Jets and lost.

For todays playoff game that determines who will play in the Superbowl on Sunday February 6th, Princess has once again picked against the Jets, preferring the Steeler's "Steel Curtain" and it's quarterback Ben Roethlisberger against the high flying Jets and Marc Sanchez.

When asked by her handler John, why she has chosen against the Jets again this week, seemingly out of disrespect for the Jets coach Rex Ryan, Princess had this to say:

"...John, Rex Ryan inconspicuous? He's is about as inconspicuous as a turd in a punchbowl. You wait ... he’ll be putting his “Foot” in his mouth before Sundays game.

Really John, I give the Jets a lot of credit, but I don’t think the they're are going to intimidate the Steelers Quarterback like they did Brady. And big Ben should get the Steelers in position to win late in the game...."

Will Princess's pick this week turn out to be right? If so, than it means that the Jets will be heading home empty handed, for the second straight year after making it to AFC Championship game.

For Jets fans sake I hope she is wrong. After all the local hype over the Jets, if they loose, I think there will be many fans ready to jump off the nearest bridge.

For me personally, if the Jets todays game game against the Steelers, it just keeps me from being bored and disinterested over the next few weeks until pitcher and catchers report for spring train.

So today I'm a J-E-T-S , Jets, Jets, Jets fan. Lets go Gang Green !