Top 10 reasons why the Jets signed LaDanian Tomlinson

10) Thomas Jones had way too much left in the tank, and by tank, we mean "reasons to actually be paid"

9) Team desperately wanted to have its own, very sad and very inadequate, LT to compete with the Giants

8) Had to do something drastic to keep Shonn Greene from going too high in fantasy football drafts

7) Best way to make sure that the team never has to undergo the media scrutiny and salary escalation that comes with a Super Bowl trip

6) The very accomplished Jets OL really needed a challenge

5) It really cheeses off the Patriots, who were hoping to team Tomlinson up with Fred Taylor and Kevin Faulk in a Three Headed Century RB Attack

4) Since every other free agent signing of a post-30 heavy workload star running back has utterly and completely tanked, we must be due to have this one work

3) Still bitter at Brett Favre, and heard that the Vikings wanted him

2) Secret payoff for the choke job that Tomlinson gave them in last year's AFC playoff win over the Chargers

1) Curtis Martin, Freeman McNeil and John Riggins all said no