Tiki Barber’s Time in NFL Football is Up
Tick… tock… tick… tock…
Yep, New York Giants running back Tiki Barber is still holding by his decision to call it quits after the NFL Football regular season. Tiki is STILL at the prime of his career and according to some NFL analysts, it’s absolutely nuts to walk away from the game now.
Well, not to Tiki. Apparently, the decision to call it quits dawned on him the morning after his New York Giants pulled off a dramatic comeback victory over Donovan McNabb, (he wasn’t injured YET then…) and the rest of the Philadelphia Eagles.
That’s when he knew that this would be his final NFL Football season.
”I felt like I was 50 years old,” Tiki Barber said. ”I consciously told myself, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore. I want to move on with the rest of my life.”’
The New York Giants staged a remarkable fourth-quarter rally against the Philadelphia birds and beat their divisional rival in overtime. After the game, Tiki Barber was exhausted.
”Literally, the next morning, I couldn’t pick my head up off my pillow because I had an injury to my neck and back,” he said. ”My kids wanted to play with me, but all I could do was lay in bed. Jeremiah Trotter hit me like 20 times. I was tired. I was beat up. I didn’t recover from that game until probably the next Saturday.”
”I don’t want to be like Earl Campbell when I’m 50, not being able to walk, especially with all the opportunities that I have, that I have a passion for,” said Barber, who plans a career as a television broadcaster.
”This is a stadium I’ve been coming to for 10 years, and there are tons of memories for me,” he said. ”But I think the emotion won’t come until later, because I’m so focused on my job and the things I need to do.”
Tiki Barber is probably one of the best running backs in the game today. But with his imminent retirement coming closer and closer after each day that comes to pass, I guess he would have to walk out of the game STILL without a Super Bowl ring.
You guessed it, the New York Giants won’t win the Super Bowl. Not this year, not next year, not ever.
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