Former NFL head coach and influential defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan is again battling cancer, his son Rex told the New York Daily News on Tuesday. Rex Ryan, the coach of the New York Jets, didn't reveal what type of cancer his father has, but said it wasn't melanoma, a type of skin cancer that Buddy Ryan has beaten twice before. "It's going to take more than this to get rid of him," Rex Ryan told the Daily News. "That's what he always says." Ryan said his wife, Michelle, was with his father Tuesday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where he was receiving a second opinion. "He's 80 years old [Buddy Ryan is actually 77], but he's doing great. He's tougher than s---," Ryan told the newspaper. Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=6249682
