Anytime you talk to anyone associated with the Giants this year, from players to front-office types to beat reporters to die-hard fans, there is an unprecedented antipathy toward the New York Jets. It's difficult to remember a season, since perhaps Bill Parcells's first year with the Jets, that Gang Green has so clearly bested Big Blue in the headline department. (And even then, the Giants could take solace in knowing that they had Parcells first.) But it's not envy; it's that the Jets are conducting their business this off-season — with the Hard Knocks (the ultimate insult) and Rex Ryan quips and big free-agent signings and Super Bowl This Year Or Bust — in the exact opposite way that the Giants run their organization. The Giants, to put it mildly, are disgusted with the Jets.

This has nothing to do with the Countdown host's politics, by the way: On his baseball blog, Olbermann recounts a 1993 meeting with Showalter when the then-Yankees manager told the then-SportsCenter anchor that the Yankee players didn't appreciate his style on the ESPN highlight show, and that they refused to enter the clubhouse until Olbermann had left. Showalter said Olbermann made him laugh personally, but that he feared a couple of players — he named Wade Boggs and Paul O'Neill — might take a swing at him if given the chance.

Welcome to life in the era of personal seat licenses: Both the Jets and Giants play their first regular-season games in their shiny new stadium this weekend — we're choosing to count next Monday as part of "this weekend" — yet hundreds of tickets remain unsold for both teams' openers. To be more specific, hundreds of tickets with pricey PSLs remain unsold — about 1,200 club seats for Sunday's Giants-Panthers game, and about 1,500 non-premium ones for Monday night's Jets-Ravens game.

As is always the case in the NFL when a team desperately needs a player and a player desperately needs a paycheck, the star holdout and his team finally came to agreement just in time: Darrelle Revis and the Jets are finally together again. If it felt to you like a star-crossed couple being kept away by feuding parents, well, Rex Ryan thought the same thing: "It was like a boyfriend and girlfriend but the parents won't let you get together," Ryan said. "That was kind of how I felt. He wanted to play, I wanted him to play, but for some reason it wasn't happening." We are not going to extend that metaphor.