NBC's (Tiki) Barber is a very lonely man at the Super Bowl

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Link:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/how-tiki-barber-went-hero/story.aspx?guid=%7BF5F284D2%2DD8CF%2D4BB1%2D9F34%2DE90D061266D0%7D

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NBC football analyst Tiki Barber retired from the New York Giants after the 2006 season, secure in his reputation as the greatest offensive player in the storied team's history.
Now, as the upstart "Jints" prepare to play the heavily favored, undefeated New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, Barber looks positively offensive to many of his old fans. In fact, he may be the loneliest man on the football scene during the build-up to Super Bowl XLII on Feb. 3 in Arizona.
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As the television networks scramble to snare exclusive interviews, Barber, who also is prominent on "Today," would seem to be NBC's key player because he knows the Giants players and coaches so well.
Problem is, Barber is persona non grata now. Based on media reports, he stands a better chance at scoring a sit-down with Osama bin Laden than with Eli Manning or Michael Strahan. Barber is on the outside looking in at a very bad time for NBC.
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much more at the link...

[Hobarticus]

1. Tiki is such a crybaby asshat...

From the article:

Ronde asked him the million-dollar question, "Are you sad you're not playing" in the Super Bowl? Tiki replied:

"I'm not, dude. I'm really not. And I'm happy for them. I really am. A lot of people assume, and this has been somewhat of a source of consternation for me, mainly because of the media-driven, for lack of a better word, B.S., that gets put in the New York media and then picked up around the country about me being overly critical of the New York Giants. I said what I said because it is my job to say what I said about the New York Giants but that doesn't mean that I'm not a supporter of an organization that was part of my family for years."

Uh, Tiki, you asshat, you ARE the media, now. If there's any "media-driven" animosity towards you, it's because you ran your piehole to get your fifteen minutes' of fame....unfortunately it also rendered useless the one thing about you that's remotely interesting – your football career – and effectively negated any good will anyone in the NFL feels towards you. No one likes a weasel. I'm not even a Giants fan, and I found his kiss-and-tell schtick childish.

Blaming the media...the best excuse grown men can come up with, anymore.