New York Post

Francesa snows us again, this time on Revis

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LOST TAPES: Darrelle Revis’ return to the Jets became a nextday lock the moment on Monday that Mike Francesa dismissed reports Revis might come back. Authoritat­ively — as if he actually knew — Sitting Bull said the teams Revis was considerin­g didn’t include the Jets. Francesa was just getting started. He was dead wrong all week about NFL player moves.

By the way, I won’t yet concede that Francesa finally got one right — he said last week’s snowstorm would be the last of the season — and I won’t until July.

In a week stained and strained by outrageous Bull Connor Era racism — that frat video from Oklahoma University — leave it to ESPN’s firststrin­g windup clown, Stephen A. Smith, to diminish genuine racism with a reckless onair spew strongly suggesting that Eagles player moves were moti vated by head coach Chip Kelly’s disregard for “brothas.”

Naturally, nowhere in ESPN’s “breakitall­down” after Robert Morris’s upset NEC title win at St. Francis, was there talk or video of anything beyond slams and missed or made bombs. That explained it. Not a peep about how St. Francis, in a threepoint loss, was 9for22 from the foul line.

At first it seemed Ch. 7 News was reporting from St. Francis because it recognized and acted on a good local story — the school’s shot to make its first NCAA Tournament. But when it was noted that the game would be on ESPN — Ch. 7’s Disney Fatherland kin — the breeze became, shall we say, scented.

The Jets plan to bill the difference to those who purchased Revis Jets jerseys at a discount after his first departure.

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