The fan who got the finger from Rex Ryan spit on the Jets head coach and confronted him three times before Ryan reacted, according to someone who was with Ryan in Florida.
Jay Glazer’s Interview on the Boomer and Carton Show [Audio]
According to Jay Glazer who was with Rex when he was walking through the crowd and had the interaction with the fans, Jay states that Rex was DEFINITELY provoked.
“As we get down to the floor … we walk past this one fan, he sees Rex, he’s literally one foot away … This is about as close as I can get it: He said, ‘Hey. I eff-in hate you. I hate you. I hate you. You’re an eff-in piece of eff.’
“I mean it was unbelievable, and he just kept going on and on. Then he said, ‘I hate you. I hope you die, you fat piece of crap,’ and then spit at him.”
Glazer wouldn’t say if it was an intentional spit at the coach, or an accident based on how close the men were.
“I got in front of Rex (because) I didn’t want Rex to kill the guy,” Glazer said. “And Rex said, when the guy said, ‘I hope you die, you fat piece of crap,’ that’s when Rex stopped and said, ‘Hey,’ and he turned, and that’s when the spit came. …
“That’s when Patrick and Trent said, ‘Hey, hey, hey,’ and kinda stepped in so Rex didn’t do anything that was bad.
After the group got to their seats, Glazer said the same fan found them an hour later and started taunting Ryan again. Then, after asking security to remove the fan form the arena and they did not, Ryan’s group was being escorted out when they encountered the fan a third time. That’s when Ryan finally flipped his middle finger.
“It was a quick thing. It was ‘Bleep’ and he gave him the finger,” Glazer said. “And I saw it, too, the dude’s friend had a camera, and I was like, oh, man here we go.”
So why is this only coming out now. It seems that by omitting what had actually happened, it gave everyone the perception that Rex was heckled just a little and he gave the finger by over reacting. NOW, that I hear that the fan came after him four times, called him nasty things but mostly spat on the coach, WHOA! That fan should have been tossed AND the coach should not have been fined at all!
