Tiki Barber Apparently Holds A Grudge Against The Eagles

If he did not hold a grudge against his former team, would he have made this idiotic remark on Bloomberg's On the Ball radio program?

"That's an indefensible comment he made. He will live to regret it for a long time."

That's Tiki's opinion and he's certainly entitled to it. Frankly, it was a dumb remark, but below is where our old friend Tiki takes it a bit too far.

"For Donovan to be in the situation and not press for it, that tie, even though it wasn't a loss, it kills them. They're almost out of the playoff race right now."

Wait, what? The Eagles are almost out of the playoff race? What standings are Tiki looking at? While morally that loss was a huge play, the Eagles are mathematically right in the thick of things. Thanks to the Cowboys beating the Redskins, the Eagles are now only a half game out of the 6th seed in the playoffs. If the Eagles beat the Ravens, and the Falcons, Cowboys, and Redskins lose then the Eagles are alone as the 6th seed in NFC playoffs for now.

Yes, I do realize given the fact that the Redskins and Cowboys both have NFC West opponents not in Arizona, that situation is unlikely to happen. But hey, any given Sunday, right?

And I'll conclude this post with a message to NBC. Now I like NBC. I think MSNBC is the best cable news outlet there is. I am a huge Keith Olbermann fan and personally Football Night in America has done a fine job replacing NFL Primetime for extended highlights. However, a complaint often made about the show is that "there are too many cooks in the kitchen". I've often fought with myself about how they should correct it, and I never really came up with a plausible situation.....until now.

Get rid of all of the cocky, pompous, arrogant people on that show who think that because they work the Sunday pre-game show for NBC, they're the best damn thing since sliced bread. That's right, Tiki Barber and Peter King, it's time for you to find a new line of work.

Barber Calls McNabb's Mistaking of NFL Tie Rule `Indefensible' (Bloomberg.com)

Update: Apparently Hines Ward also did not know that there were ties in the NFL. No word yet if Tiki Barber has called this even worse than indefensible, seeing as Hines Ward actually played in the 2002 tie!