Apparently not, if you listen to some of the talking heads (braying jackasses) who by the way don't blink an eye at Crackpipe Mike's entry. Shame on Emmitt Smith for defending his inclusion with the statement "It ain't the Hall of Life". You'll fit right in with O.J. Maybe Tiki's class and dignity will distract the recent crop of Hall of Shamers just like I guess it distracted the current Giant roster of jackasses and creeps.
Some of Tiki's notable accomplishments:
from Giants.com article by Micheal Eisen
http://www.giants.com/news/eisen/story.asp?story_id=24322
Tiki Barber retired after the 2006 season as one of the greatest players in Giants history and one of the very best NFL players of his era. Barber set more than a dozen franchise records and accomplished feats achieved by very few players in league history.
*Barber holds the Giants record for career rushing yards with 10,449, or 3,552 yards ahead of runner-up Rodney Hampton. That is the 17th-highest total in NFL history.
*He owns the top three and four of the top five single-season rushing totals in Giants history. The record is 1,860 yards in 2005. Barber rushed for 1,662 yards in 2006 and 1,518 yards in 2004.
*Barber rushed for at least 1,000 yards in each of his final five seasons. That was the NFL's second-longest active streak, behind LaDainian Tomlinson's six consecutive 1,000-yard seasons.
*No Giant ever carried the ball as often as Barber. He had 2,217 rushing attempts. He also holds the single-season mark with 357 in 2005.
*Barber led the Giants in rushing every game from the beginning of the 2002 season through the end of the 2006 season, an NFL-record 80 consecutive games.
*Barber averaged 4.7 yards-per-carry, a franchise record. Of the 20 running backs with 10,000 yards, only two Hall of Famers have a higher per-carry average: Jim Brown (5.22) and Barry Sanders (4.99)
*Barber had 38 100-yard rushing games, exactly twice as many as Giants runner-up Joe Morris. The Giants were 25-13 in the regular season when Barber rushed for at least 100 yards. Barber has the Giants' last 36 100-yard rushing games.
*The 234-yard outing in his finale was the fifth 200-yard game of his career. Barber has five of the seven 200-yard games in Giants history. It is the second-highest total in NFL history. Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson had six 200-yard games.
*Barber had 17,359 total yards (rushing, receiving, returns and fumble yardage). That is the 11th-highest total in NFL history and is 7,497 yards ahead of Gifford, who is second among all Giants.
*Barber owns the top five single-season total yardage marks in team history, including a record 2,390 in 2005, the second-highest total in NFL history. He had 2,127 yards in 2006.
*Barber holds the team record with 15,632 yards from scrimmage (rushing and receiving). That is the 10th-highest total in NFL history. Put another way, only nine players ever to wear NFL uniforms gained more yards from scrimmage than Barber.
*Barber played 154 regular season games. He averaged 101.5 yards from scrimmage in those games. That placed him fifth in history among players who have played at least 150 games. The first two players on the list are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The next two will be:
Players averaging 100+ scrimmage yards per game in career (min: 150 games):
Barry Sanders 118.9
Walter Payton 111.9
Marshall Faulk 108.8
Curtis Martin 103.8
Tiki Barber 101.5
*When he became the 20th player in NFL history with at least 10,000 rushing yards he also had 5,118 receiving yards. Only two other players in history have accumulated more than 10,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards: Hall of Famer Marcus Allen (12,243 and 5,411) and likely future Hall inductee Marshall Faulk (12,279 and 6,875).
So when you look at these type of accomplishments and then see that in a recent ESPN fan poll 2/3 of fan's DO NOT think Barber has done enough to enter the hallowed Football Hall of Fame, led on no doubt by at least 2/3 of the ESPN football "experts", you shouldn't question the credentials of one Tiki Barber, rather you should question both the collective intelligence of the fan respondents and the credentials of the assembled jackasses who populate the ESPN screen. To quote Warren Buffet, "A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought".
Maybe if they spent less time taking phone photos of their little units for the ladies viewing pleasure like one of the football pundits or laid off the crackpipe once in a while, they would be more knowledgable about the sport they covered.
Bye Bye Tiki, you will be sorely missed.
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