Tiki Barber was lustily booed during the New York Giants Ring of Honor ceremony at halftime Sunday night.
Gary Myers of the Daily News said this morning that this was New York fans showing support for their team and coach, and telling Tiki to stuff it.
If the fans had one voice, they were telling Barber that they had Coughlin's back. And that they feel he has betrayed the organization with his critical comments of Coughlin over the years and again last week,
when he said the coach had a crisis, his job was in jeopardy and his control of the team was slipping away.
Had the players tuned out Coughlin? Had he lost the locker room? He's always talking about Giants pride, but that's been lacking early this season. And Barber, the Giants' all-time leading rusher, took the opportunity to declare open season on Coughlin.
The fans let Barber know they didn't appreciate it. Coughlin led the Giants to the Super Bowl championship in 2007, the first year of Barber's retirement.
The booing stood out because each of the other 29 members of the Ring of Honor received loud ovations. To accentuate their point, the fans gave a huge ovation to Amani Toomer, who was introduced right after Barber.
My take: In a way, it's too bad the ceremony had to be marred that way. In reality, though, I wish Barber had politely declined to show up.
My take: In a way, it's too bad the ceremony had to be marred that way. In reality, though, I wish Barber had politely declined to show up.
This torching of Tiki was inevitable, and I'm more than OK with it. I would have been booing, too, if I had been in the stands at New Meadowlands Stadium.
New York Giants Notes video
Tiki was a great player, but he needs to stop trying to resuscitate his derailed TV career by trashing the organization that made him a household name.
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