Re: Tiki signs on with NBC's 'Today' show <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Officially, Tiki Barber?s football career is over. On Monday, Barber?s retirement papers were sent to the Giants, the National Football League and the league?s players association.The former running back will become an NBC television personality, people with direct knowledge of the negotiations said. Barber, the Giants? all-time leading rusher who retired from football at age 31 after one of the best seasons of his career, will be a news correspondent for ?Today ? and is expected to have a role in the network?s Sunday night football broadcasts.Barber will begin his duties with NBC in April, the source said, the same month Barber turns 32. Exact terms of his multi-year, multi-million dollar contract are unknown. NBC is expected to announce Barber?s new role in a news conference on Tuesday.NBC was one of several suitors for Barber?s broadcasting talent, broad smile and recognizable one-name moniker. Other networks that were also negotiating with Barber included Disney, which owns ABC and ESPN, and Fox News. Barber served as a host for the ?Fox & Friends? morning news show once a week until his contract expired last fall.Barber has little interest in becoming the latest ex-athlete to sit on a panel and pontificate about the game he used to play. Instead, Barber wants to be a do-it-all news broadcaster. He has often cited Matt Lauer, the co-host of ?Today?, as the type of broadcasting personality he hoped to become.Now, he will be working with Lauer at the popular morning program.By retiring from the Giants, Barber walks away from a non-guaranteed contract through 2008 that was scheduled to pay him a base salary of $4.15 million per season.But Barber has never wanted to be defined solely as a football player, and had grown anxious about his long-term health. Barber rushed and received the ball 2,803 times in his 10-year N.F.L. career, and his 15,631 yards from scrimmage rank 10th in league history. While he avoided serious injury in his playing career, Barber increasingly seemed more intrigued by meeting the movers and shakers of the political world than by moving and shaking through defenders on the football field.He pondered retirement from football the past couple of years, and decided early during the 2006 season that it would be his last. His intentions became public in October, igniting debate about his loyalty to the team and his desire to finish the season.Barber shook off the criticism. He rushed for 1,662 yards, fourth in the N.F.L. The season before, he had a career-high 1,860 rushing yards, and led the league in combined yards rushing and receiving.</div>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/sports/f...amp;oref=slogin
Re: Tiki signs on with NBC's 'Today' show <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AdropOFvenom @ Feb 12 2007, 01:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Barber has little interest in becoming the latest ex-athlete to sit on a panel and pontificate about the game he used to play. Instead, Barber wants to be a do-it-all news broadcaster. He has often cited Matt Lauer, the co-host of ?Today?, as the type of broadcasting personality he hoped to become.</div></div>Very smart move. Very, Very, Very smart move.
Re: Tiki signs on with NBC's 'Today' show I'd rather be involved with sports, news anchors suck other than the channel 4 news of San Diego
Re: Tiki signs on with NBC's 'Today' show <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (JHair @ Feb 12 2007, 02:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I'd rather be involved with sports, news anchors suck other than the channel 4 news of San Diego</div>He will be involved with sports, obviously, but he wants more than the Michael Irvin role on ESPN, he wants to cover MLB, NBA, NFL, College Football, March Madness, et al. as well as real world topics like wars, elections, and legal scandals.He wants to be more.
Re: Tiki signs on with NBC's 'Today' show He'll probably be a better at that than at football. :ninja:
Re: Tiki signs on with NBC's 'Today' show <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Punisher @ Feb 12 2007, 04:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He'll probably be a better at that than at football. :ninja:</div>then he'll be amazing at it.eitherway, I like Tiki and all but I'm really not interested in what he's got going on post-football.
