Ryan: American football is the greatest game ever invented

Ireland’s Cricket World Cup qualifier against Afghanistan is playing away on the TV in the background as Rob Ryan sits in the Clanna Gael Fontenoy clubhouse in Dublin, gripping a hurley, and holding court on all things American football.

He’s a good talker and an even better self-promoter.

For 13 years straight he was employed by one of six NFL clubs in a coaching capacity. That was until he was among those flushed out of the Buffalo Bills organisation in December 2016 when the plug was pulled on his brother Rex’s term as head coach.