from www.nydailynews.com - Foot-fetish videos of a woman who's a dead ringer for the wife of Jets coach Rex Ryan burned up the Internet Tuesday night - giving the word "football" a whole new meaning.
One of the four videos on the sports gossip site Deadspin.com show the woman and an off-screen cameraman who sounds like Ryan having intimate discussions about her feet.
The petite blonde showing off her toes in the videos bears an uncanny resemblance to Michelle Ryan, the coach's wife of 23 years.
Deadspin reported that the woman featured in the videos goes by the Internet handle "Ihaveprettyfeet" and has more than looks in common with the coach's wife.
Like Michelle Ryan, the 47-year-old woman is a housewife with a master's degree, a Virgo and once lived in Ellicott City, Md., which is where the Ryans lived before they moved to New York, Deadspin said.
Reached for comment, a Jets spokesman said only: "This is a personal matter and Rex will have no comment."
In one clip, the woman is sitting in a green SUV with her bare feet hanging out the window when she is approached by the sound-alike Rex Ryan.
"You have really beautiful feet," the unseen cameraman tells the woman. She responds, "Thank you. You know most men do think my feet are pretty because ... well, they're soft and they're petite and, of course, they are very beautiful."
The cameraman then asks, "You mind if I touch them." He proceeds to request, "Can I smell them."
"I bet most men like to do a lot of things with those feet," the man says.
The other videos show the woman lounging on a couch, drinking a beer and reading a book while flexing and rubbing her footsies.
The videos are called, "Awesome Soles" and "Great Feet Out of Shoes" and "Hot Mature Sexy Feet."
Ryan has often professed his love for his wife, his college sweetheart from Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
Last month, he compared her to Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady's wife, Gisele Bundchen, showing reporters a magazine featuring her modeling an NFL clothing line. "I'm also married to a supermodel," Ryan boasted.
In his first press conference in January 2009 after inking a $11.5 million deal to coach Gang Green, Ryan mentioned the affection he had for his wife.
"My wife of 22 years right there ... there's only two kinds of coaches' wives in the NFL and that's ex-ones and great ones," he said as his wife looked on.
from www.nesn.com - Rex Ryan joked that he was like Tom Brady in many ways, particularly in that they're both married to supermodels. Brady has Gisele Bundchen, while Ryan has Michelle Ryan, who posed in InStyle magazine wearing Jets gear.
Rex was joking, but now his wife has been accused of doing some modeling that isn't quite as funny.
Deadspin.com decided this week to throw out as many wild rumors and as much rampant speculation as humanly possible, and on Tuesday, that included a claim that Michelle Ryan is an Internet sensation as a foot fetish model, formerly known as "ihaveprettyfeet".
The woman in one of the videos on the site does indeed look exactly like the wife of the Jets' coach, and it doesn't take a lot of imagination to think the cameraman sounds an awful lot like Rex. The account of the user in question also used to list her location as Ellicott City, Md., which just happens to be where the Ryans lived when Rex was still working for the Ravens.
Still, none of that counts exactly as conclusive evidence, but, well, knowing Rex, he might not be able to keep quiet about it when he addresses the media on Wednesday.
from www.sportsgrid.com - Yesterday, we read one of the strangest things we’ve ever seen – a Deadspin piece showcasing several foot fetish videos featuring a woman bearing an uncanny resemblance (in more than just looks, it turned out) to the wife of New York Jets coach Rex Ryan. What’s more – in one of videos, the person holding the camera has a speaking role – and that voice happens to sound like Rex Ryan’s.
Naturally, the story blew up in short order – the New York Daily News even put it on their cover today (they took their usual understated approach). The first thing to pop into our mind upon seeing that cover, though: “How didn’t we think of that wordplay already?! ‘Foot’ is right in the name of the sport!”
Anyway, the actual piece the Daily News ran on this bizarre development includes a quote from a Jets spokesperson that, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio points out, removes what little doubt there was as to whether the woman in the videos is Ryan’s wife:
“This is a personal matter and Rex will have no comment.”
Much, much different from saying that the woman in the videos isn’t Ryan’s wife. We understand why the Jets wouldn’t want to comment, but at the same time we can’t help but wish the Ryans had completely owned this story. As best we can tell, there’s nothing to be ashamed of here but the fact that everyone will be talking about it. Everyone knows Ryan’s a character – sure, this story is unexpected, but is it a complete shock?
Foot fetishes aren’t for everyone, but as everyone surely knows, there is much, much worse out there on this internet. We’d love if the Ryans came out and said something to that effect, because it’s the truth. Rex Ryan’s wife, it seems, made some foot fetish videos. If she enjoyed doing it (and it certainly seemed as though Rex was fine with it), more power to them.
Florio talked of the “horrendous absence of judgment, intelligence, and/or discretion…or, more likely, an overabundance of arrogance” that apparently led Ryan to believe no one would ever “put two and two together.” And while it does seem unrealistic to believe no one would ever unearth this and figure it out, we can’t say we agree with judging Ryan so harshly.
No, it probably wasn’t the smartest idea to take on a speaking role in that video when you’re a prominent figure in the buttoned-down world of football – but hey, Ryan’s defiance of the buttoned-down football stereotype is why people love him in the first place. The story is amusing and wholly unexpected, but ultimately, it’s far from the worst thing in the world, and at least to us, not so big of a deal.
