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Steel Cage Death Match of Finance, or, True Blood Is Not the Only Fictional Drama on HBO

Darrelle Revis signed with the Jets yesterday. All I could think of was did he initial the pages "WWE?"

More than one holdout in sports history has been a prearranged fraud, and Revis' sure looks like one. He conveniently signs just in time to wrap up the Jets' miserable preseason on a (false) note of triumph, for approximately one-third the money we'd been hearing about all summer after a last-second intervention by that noted silver-tongued orator Rex Ryan. Holy cow, all it took to get Revis off the dime and down by about $100 million in demands was for the coach to ask him to do it? Is there an audience so lame (OK, there is, namely the Jets fans this was all intended to con) not to laugh at one of the creakiest deus ex machinas ever inserted into a plot line."

"Hard Knocks" should be retitled "Hard to Believe" this week. Alas for the Jets, their reality show switches networks next Sunday -- to CBS for some real games. Minus a script, I don't look for more than seven happy endings before the show's canceled on January 2, 2010.

posted by Michael Gee @ 10:24 AM