{"id":749,"date":"2006-10-24T20:29:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T20:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/24\/an-appreciation\/"},"modified":"2006-10-24T20:29:27","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T20:29:27","slug":"an-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/24\/an-appreciation\/","title":{"rendered":"An Appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Easterbrook on Tiki Barber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

At this point Tiki Barber, TTNY (“The Toast of New York”), should replace Brett Favre as the most admired player in the NFL, and as the one who exemplifies the best of football culture. This guy plays amazingly well — last night when the Giants needed power running, he even did that. Barber has played at a high level for a long time. He never complains, refuses to blame others and never whines about his contract. He’s well-read and well-informed. He radiates the fact that he knows football is just entertainment, that there are a thousand things in the world that matter a thousand times more. An awful lot of football is idiotic or even harmful. Fairly it may be asked, “What has football produced that can be admired?” One answer is, “Tiki Barber.” Only Barber knows how his knees and ribs feel when he wakes up the day after a game — the morning after is always the worst. If his time to step aside is coming, so be it. But Tiki, you’re the bomb.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Amen. He had a fumbling problem a couple of years back, but aside from that Barber has been rock-solid for the Giants for years. He’s a great back, and a class act– no strutting, no preening, just good, solid football. He plays hard on game days, and says the right things every other day, and is generally a credit to the profession.<\/p>\n

If Tiki is really going to retire after this year (and given the beating that running backs take, it’s hard to blame him if he does), I’m sure he’ll make a mint doing TV commentary (in an ideal world, he would replace the endlessly irritating Michael Irvin on ESPN). As a Giants fan, I kind of hope he changes his mind and comes back for a few more years, but whatever he decides to do, I wish him the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Easterbrook on Tiki Barber: At this point Tiki Barber, TTNY (“The Toast of New York”), should replace Brett Favre as the most admired player in the NFL, and as the one who exemplifies the best of football culture. This guy plays amazingly well — last night when the Giants needed power running, he even did… Continue reading An Appreciation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}