Also: Michael Crabtree ended his holdout. Everything he knows about negotiations he learned from Wikipedia. [Mercury News]

Future News: Jim Zorn fired as head coach of the Washington Redskins. Greg Blatche named interim head coach, Sherm Smith moves to offensive coordinator. [DC Sports Bog]

We’re always impressed when we get letters from people around the NFL. It still kinda blows our collective minds that this blog gets all the attention that it does in the sports universe. But we were doubly surprised when we received an email from Rex Ryan, who of course is the new coach for the New York Jets, who asked us to share a message with you on his behalf. We were flattered by the gesture, and only too happy to oblige, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that this was just another form letter that he sends out regularly to random groups of people. Read it after the jump and tell us if we’re just crazy.

Received: from [66.41.157.4] by web36702.mail.nyjets.com via HTTP; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:40:07 PDT
X-Mailer: NFLMailRC/1357.18 NFLMailWebService/0.7.289.15
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:40:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rex Ryan
Subject: Open letter (please share with your readers)
To: kissingsuzykolber@gmail.com
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Dear Friends Of KSK:

Hye Ftololba fnas, wahs’t hppanenig? Rxe Rayn hree. Tihs hsa bene teh frist yare fo perpraenig fro teh Jtes saseon. Is’t bene gdoo os fra. Raelly Gdoo. I flee lkie I hvae dreseved hits fro a lnog tmei now. Adn I lkoo frodarw ot esenig hawt we cna od twih ym now tmae.

Teh Ftololba saeson si liek a sxey wmona wthi hgue ttsi. Yuo wnat ot raehc fro teh ttsiies rgiht awya, btu yuo msut risest! Yuo ndee ot biudl pu ot teh ttsiies whit kssies nad hlodnig hnads nad smoetmies donig wrok aournd teh husoe. I kown, I htae ti oto! Btu tehn wneh yuo hvae biult teh fnoudatoin, teh ttsiies wlli cmoe ot yuo! Hwo aweosme si taht?

Gdoo lkuc hits saseon ot lla yuor taems, nad ot tehir caohces. Mnay caohces dn’ot lsat lnog ni teh NLF thsee dyas. Nad godo lcuk ni yuor prenasol nedavors. Jsut bleivee ni yuorslef nad ees teh jbos ot teh end. Gdoseepd.

Snicreley,

“Dyslexy Rexy”

Rex Ryan,
Head Coach
New York Jets

Hey, scheduling mavens.

It’s me, Fireman Eliezer, and I’ve got some kvetching to do. You shmendriks must have some serious chutzpah to schedule the first home game of the Jets season on Rosh Hashannah!

[has a nosh]

When I saw the schedule I nearly plotzed right there in front of my entire mishpocheh! All I wanted was to take my beloved bubbe to the first game of the new season. But I ask you, how am I to do this during the celebration of our new year? Oy vey iz mir.

[strokes payot]

And don’t get me started on that second home game. Scheduling our beloved J-E-T-S for a late afternoon game on the day Yom Kippur begins? Feh! You know very well that game won’t be over until the sun is setting. I’ll tell ya, it’s like a kick in the tuches! Sure, it’s all well and good for the precious goyim, but what about us, your faithful fans in the Jewish community? We give you support and in return we get bubkes!

[berates a woman for not showing her jewbs]

Hopefully everyone in your organization hasn’t gone completely mishegas and can get to work on fixing the schedule to better coincide with the new year and the Day of Atonement. And hey, if you were to toss in some coupons for those delicious kosher dogs we could put all of this ugliness behind us.

Shalom,
Fireman Eliezer

H-E-I-L HEIL! HEIL! HEIL!

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