Up in Smoke

In yesterday's Daily News, columnist Filip Bondy drew a clear line between the Giants and the Jets. The Giants, according to Bondy, are a total mess. The Jets, on the other hand, are a model of propriety. Bondy even compared Gang Green to a group of "Boy Scouts." Here he is on the team's singular focus: 

There is nothing to divert them from their appointed duty. Outside of the positive fuss about Brett Favre's arrival, the Jets have been all about football. It's been this way for a while. You have to go back to John Abraham's crash or Jumbo Elliott's DWI to uncover even a sniff of scandal.

Poor choice of words, and even worse timing. Less than 24 hours after Bondy's column went to press, it was announced that Jets DE Shaun Ellis was arrested last Saturday morning for possession of marijuana, speeding and driving without insurance, after he was pulled over by police outside the Jets' practice facility in Florham Park, New Jersey.

I'm sure fellow News columnist Mike Lupica, who's known for shooting from the lip, is giving Bondy total hell for this. Provided, of course, Lupica still even acknowledges other sports reporters off-camera.