By ALAN PERGAMENT
A couple of weekends ago, Fox analyst Cris Collinsworth sympathized with New York Giants running back Tiki Barber.
During a game with the Philadelphia Eagles that the Giants needed to make the playoffs, Barber ran for 203 yards but fumbled three times and almost cost his team the game and their season.
Collinsworth noted that when he played his biggest fear was in embarrassing himself, suggesting that was what Barber had done before he redeemed himself on a winning field-goal drive.
A week later, on his most visible broadcast of the season, Collinsworth made a mistake that would embarrass most broadcasters. It came at the end of the Giants' 39-38 playoff collapse in San Francisco after holder Matt Allen fumbled a bad snap that prevented a game-winning field-goal attempt.....more
A couple of weekends ago, Fox analyst Cris Collinsworth sympathized with New York Giants running back Tiki Barber.
During a game with the Philadelphia Eagles that the Giants needed to make the playoffs, Barber ran for 203 yards but fumbled three times and almost cost his team the game and their season.
Collinsworth noted that when he played his biggest fear was in embarrassing himself, suggesting that was what Barber had done before he redeemed himself on a winning field-goal drive.
A week later, on his most visible broadcast of the season, Collinsworth made a mistake that would embarrass most broadcasters. It came at the end of the Giants' 39-38 playoff collapse in San Francisco after holder Matt Allen fumbled a bad snap that prevented a game-winning field-goal attempt.....more
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