Neil Best
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted on Sept.
The visiting coach's interview room at MetLife Stadium usually is a sparsely populated afterthought, but late Thursday night it filled up quickly with reporters angling for orchestra seats in advance of the curtain rising for the big show.
Then Rex Ryan delivered, as always, emboldened by his Bills' 22-17 victory over the Jets and ready to unload a backlog of soundbites on his lone visit to the metropolitan area this season.
Meanwhile, far around the bend on the lower concourse, Todd Bowles was addressing the many questions that had to be asked of him by a smattering of beat writers, who sat among rows of empty seats.