A day after a series of bizarre foot-fetish videos were made widely available featuring a woman who looks like the wife of Rex Ryan, the Jets coach refused to answer questions on the matter this afternoon, saying it is a "personal issue."
"Obviously, I knew this question was coming," Ryan told reporters in Chicago. "This is a personal issue and I'm not going to discuss it."
Ryan did not deny, however, that his wife is the star of a series of foot-fetish YouTube videos.
The four videos posted Tuesday afternoon on the sports gossip site Deadspin.com show the woman displaying her feet for a cameraman who sounds like Ryan.
Known for putting his foot in his mouth in the past, Ryan avoided answering the question during a news conference ahead of Sunday's game against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field.
Asked several times whether he and his wife made the videos, Ryan said he would not get into the issue.
"I hope you can respect that," he said.
A somber-looking Ryan said the videos would not serve as a distraction this weekend.
