Reliving Rex Ryans wild Jets ride as he interviews for second chance

Elvis has re-entered the picture.Rex Ryan interviewed Tuesday in West Palm Beach, Fla., for the Jets head coaching job. A little more than 10 years ago, the Jets announced his firing via Twitter, ending a six-year stretch that included two AFC Championship game appearances, the first four seasons of the franchise’s current 14-year playoff drought, and more New York Post front and back pages than all of the other coaches in New York football history combined.Ryan’s repertoire ranged from a foot fetish to a racy tattoo, from a shaggy wig to a goddamn snack, from a flipped bird to running with the bulls, and much more.Let’s take a look back at the first act of the most colorful Jets figure since Joe Namath.Moments after being introduced as the Jets coach on Jan.

21, 2009, Ryan already was talking about winning championships, as his father Buddy did as an assistant coach for the Jets in Super Bowl III.“With all the cameras and all that, I was looking for our new president [Barack Obama] back there,” Ryan said.

“You know, I think we’ll get to meet him in the next couple years anyway.”Before coaching his first game as a Jet, Ryan made it clear he knew who the biggest enemy was.“I never came here to kiss Bill Belichick’s, you know, rings,” Ryan said in a June 3, 2009 interview with WFAN’s Mike Francesa.

“I came to win.… I’m certainly not intimidated by New England or anybody else.”Asked if the Jets needed to send the Patriots a message, Ryan responded: “I think we already have sent a message to them.

So they can read between the lines …They can figure it out.And when they come here that second week of the season, we’ll see.” The Jets defeated the Patriots 16-9 in Ryan’s first home game, but Belichick, who already had three Patriots rings, would go on to win three more.Ryan mistakenly said the Jets were eliminated from the playoffs after a 10-7 loss to the Falcons on Dec.

9, 2009 dropped them to 7-7.“We’re obviously out ...