Tiki Raises Bar on His Own Irrelevance
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 07:52AM
The Philadelphia Inquirer quotes Tiki Barber:
"If they played this game in the regular season," the NBC analyst said, "it would be a [regional] game, and no one would watch."
I guess the Super Bowl ringless Tiki would rather the Super Bowl feature big market teams like the Oakland Raiders or Chicago Bears. (What would the line on that game be?)
Tiki, Tiki, Tiki. Last season, while you woke up early to do read teleprompters with Al Roker and Ann Curry, your Giants won the Super Bowl. Turns out the grouchy old coach and the ho-hum Manning brother 'knew them some football.'
While former NY Giant Jesse Palmer and guys like Trent Dilfer have become excellent network analysts, in his new profession Barber proves as graceful and effective as a Marc Bulger sprint option.
Oh, by the way: according to the Neilson ratings, "NBC's coverage of Super Bowl XLII averaged 95.4 million viewers, making it the second-highest-rated Super Bowl of all time."
We will continue to update you on Tiki's surge towards irrelevance.