If you were hoping for the Tiki Barber comeback train to stop in St. Louis, where he could help the Rams forcibly remove Steven Jackson from at least a carry or two a night, it just got—well, easier, and then harder, as Barber made himself even more of a pariah by describing moving into his agent's house as "a reverse Anne Frank thing." Look: Barber isn't actually being a terrible person here; at a stand-up club you wouldn't bat your eyelashes at the comparison. But I have something to offer for current and former athletes—just a simple word of advice:
↵Never compare yourself to anyone who has had a difficult life. Especially if that difficult life was related to their race or ethnicity. People don't want to hear from Tiki Barber, who left his pregnant wife to be with a woman 10 years older than Anne Frank, anything resembling a cry for sympathy.
↵I'm not sure anyone's managed to give away this much public goodwill after his retirement since Kirby Puckett gave it a shot. Since Puckett didn't try to make a comeback this could get even more interesting in the future. (Kind of like how the diary of Anne Frank got more interesting in the future, when we needed first-hand accounts of the attempted extermination of a people.)
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