Tiki Barber, Unemployed And Devastated
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Tiki Barber, Unemployed And Devastated

Tiki Barber couldn't cut it as an NFL analyst. It takes more than good looks and a big smile to make it in TV. Barber didn't transition from the gridiron to the microphone as well as he thought he would, and it left a void in his life. So he launched his comeback. Can you call it a comeback when he never actually came-back?
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Published: Sep 6, 2011 02:34 pm

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It looks like Tiki Barber overestimated the value of a 36 year old retiree. Not one NFL team took him up on his offer to return to the field of play after retiring after the 2006 season. What a shocker…  Did the sarcasm come through on that?

Tiki Barber couldn’t cut it as an NFL analyst. It takes more than good looks and a big smile to make it in TV. Barber didn’t transition from the gridiron to the microphone as well as he thought he would, and it left a void in his life. So he launched his comeback.

Can you call it a comeback when he never actually came-back?  Good try buddy.

In the recent Sports Illustrated, NFL columnist Peter King had this to say;

I tried to reach Barber on Sunday, but he wasn’t talking. I hear he’s devastated that no team gave him a chance.

This breaks my heart. In case you didn’t pick up on it, sarcasm.  From the same article and from his agent Mark Lepselter;
“We are flabbergasted that Tiki has not had an opportunity with any team, especially when rosters were at 90 players this year. I certainly thought some team would be intrigued to see what he had left in the tank.”
Flabbergasted?  That actually made me ‘lol’ when I read it. An NFL team would have a better chance catching lightening in a bottle with an undrafted 22 year old rookie than with a, by NFL standards, really, really old running back.
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Lester A. Wiltfong Jr.
Lester has been a writer and now an editor of Windy City Gridiron since 2009 covering all things Chicago Bears. He's been writing about sports, and occasionally crossing into the entertainment genre, on We Got This Covered since March of 2011.
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