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02-15-2007, 03:45 PM
$3 Million for Tiki Barber Means Sterling Sharpe Is Out at NBC
Posted Feb 14th 2007 7:51AM by Michael David Smith
Filed under: NY Giants, NFC East, NFL Gossip, NFL Media Watch
Tiki Barber now works for both NBC News and NBC Sports, and two interesting details have come out, courtesy of the Chicago Tribune. First, Barber's salary will be in the $2.5 million to $3 million range. That means, when you combine the lost Giants salary with the endorsements he'll have to turn down to work for NBC News, he's going to lose somewhere in the neighborhood of $4 million by choosing to leave football. Obviously, a guy who has already made well over $10 million in his career isn't exactly hurting by taking a job that pays "only" $3 million, but that's still a choice a lot of athletes wouldn't have made.
The other piece of news is that with Barber joining NBC's football coverage, Sterling Sharpe is now out of a job. That makes sense; Football Night in America was already a ridiculously crowded set, with Bob Costas, Peter King, Jerome Bettis and Cris Collinsworth on board alongside Sharpe.
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Posted Feb 14th 2007 7:51AM by Michael David Smith
Filed under: NY Giants, NFC East, NFL Gossip, NFL Media Watch
Tiki Barber now works for both NBC News and NBC Sports, and two interesting details have come out, courtesy of the Chicago Tribune. First, Barber's salary will be in the $2.5 million to $3 million range. That means, when you combine the lost Giants salary with the endorsements he'll have to turn down to work for NBC News, he's going to lose somewhere in the neighborhood of $4 million by choosing to leave football. Obviously, a guy who has already made well over $10 million in his career isn't exactly hurting by taking a job that pays "only" $3 million, but that's still a choice a lot of athletes wouldn't have made.
The other piece of news is that with Barber joining NBC's football coverage, Sterling Sharpe is now out of a job. That makes sense; Football Night in America was already a ridiculously crowded set, with Bob Costas, Peter King, Jerome Bettis and Cris Collinsworth on board alongside Sharpe.
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.aolsportsblog.com/media/2007/02/sterlingsharpe.jpg