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Rex Ryan Is $50,000 Lighter Today

We’ll spare you the easy fat joke that we set ourselves up for with that headline, and instead just say that the best part of Rex Ryan’s middle-finger non-controversy is that it pretty much stayed a non-controversy. At most, it reached the level of late-night-comedy fodder, which is exactly what should have happened. (David Letterman’s No. 1 Reason Your Film Wasn’t Nominated for an Academy Award? “Jets coach Rex Ryan saw film, gave it the finger.”) But just as Ryan flipping off a hostile Miami crowd doesn’t surprise us, neither does the fact that the Jets slapped his wrist and fined him $50,000. Thus ends this particular Rex Ryan incident. We can’t wait for the next one. [NYP]

Rex Ryan Is $50,000 Lighter Today