Eric Mangini addressed the name of his new son in his press conference today.

“Zack’s middle name is Brett. Zack Brett Mangini.  The history behind that is that all my kids have middle names that are related to people who have been important to me in my football career.  Jake’s middle name is Harrison after Rodney Harrison. I really like the name Harrison, and Rodney had a really good year that year.  [Luke arrived] In our transition from the Patriots to the Jets, so Luke’s middle name is William, after Bill [Belichick].”

As for Brett, Mangini said.

“I really believed Brett would be an instrumental part to another good year, part of my football life, and I would commit to Zack Brett Mangini at that point. That was part of our terms and we stuck with it.”

Brett Favre had a quick comment on Eric Mangini’s son being born of all days, on his birthday to the press late today.

The chances of Eric’s son being born on my birthday (were remote). The odds of the child being born the same day as my birthday - I don’t know what the odds are.  He told me that today was the day and I asked, “well is he still going to be Brett?” He said, “Yeah, Zack Brett”. I thought it was pretty cool. First off all the odds, in some respects, are a lot like me. What were the odds of me ever coming to the Jets? It is a pretty cool thing.

I think they should have named him after Favre’s middle name … Lorenzo.

Congrats again to the Manginis and happy birthday to Brett, getting someone named after you is a pretty good present, I imagine, so TJB’s official stance is that we chipped in on that one.

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