The Gawd is Sick

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Tough as nails: Buddy Ryan again has cancer, Rex reveals

New York Jets coach Rex Ryan revealed Tuesday that his father Buddy recently was diagnosed with cancer, the New York Daily News reported.


"It's going to take more than this to get rid of him," Rex Ryan said. "That's what he always says."

Buddy Ryan, 77, made his mark as defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears teams of the mid-80s, including the one that won Super Bowl XX after the 1985 season. He also was head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals. He also was an assistant under Week Ewbank for the Jets when they won Super Bowl III, and he coordinated the Vikings' "Purple People Eaters" defenses of the 1970s.

Buddy Ryan twice has overcome melanoma, considered the most dangerous type of skin cancer, as well as encephalitis, which is an acute inflammation of the brain. Rex Ryan's wife Michelle accompanied him as he underwent more tests in New York on Tuesday.

"It's something else. I'm not going to get into it," Rex Ryan said. "He's a tough old guy. He's getting a second opinion. He should be all right."

Ryan and his twin brother Rob, who is now the defensive coordinator with the Dallas Cowboys, worked together on their father's Cardinals staff in 1994-95.

Rex Ryan has often talked about wanting to win a Super Bowl with the Jets because his father was an assistant coach for the Jets' only Super Bowl champion.

"I learned so much from my dad. I learned the game of football, the way you do things," Ryan has said. "The way he would build his team on passionate, physical, aggressive people. I'm taking all those things from my father."

Rex Ryan and the Jets have reached the AFC Championship Game each of the past two seasons, and he already has predicted the Jets will win it all next season