Another New York Story

There are four compelling games in this weekend's Wild Card round.  The bowl season is winding down to the games of interest for the annual debate about whether the BCS has identified a real National Champion (not a chance this year).  And yet a full news cycle was dominated by the story of Thomas Jones bleating in public that Brett Favre ultimately hurt the Jets by being exactly what the Jets hired him to be - a gunslinger who refuses to accept the idea that his body won't respond to his every command.

This is a classic New York story.  Meaning the rest of us just don't give a rat's ass, but we'll hear about it days because the media is obsessed with all things New York.  And it isn't even a good New York story at that - at least Plaxico Burress had head-scratching stupidity going for him.

If the Jets had made the playoffs, we might care what one of the players said about another.  Might.

If Brett Favre had won the MVP, we might care that one of his teammates called him out.  Might.

But because the Jets fell like a stone in the last month while Brett Favre proved that an old quarterback's performance will always suffer in cold weather, this isn't a story at all.

Let's talk about the real stories after Week 17 - like an 11-5 Patriots team is sitting at home while an 8-8 Chargers team hosts a playoff game, and how Herm Edwards still has job.