Tiki Barber did not take the football field again upon his return, but it is already in hits to an analogy to the victim of the Holocaust Anne Frank.
The former New York Giants running back has been criticized in the local media to make the analogy in an interview in Sports Illustrated this week. At one point in the article, Barber described go into hiding with his girlfriend after its failure very publicized with his wife pregnant at the time. Barber and his girlfriend were finished in the attic of the House of the officer of the player, Mark Lepselter.
"Sara of the Jew", Barber told Sports Illustrated. "And it was like a thing of Anne Frank reverse."
LEPSELTER came to the defence of his client Thursday.
"In a world where nothing would surprise me, where things get completely soufflés out of proportion, this does that add to the list" Lepselter told ESPNNewYork.com. "" "". [Tiki] was light on dating at the time where it was literally trapped, so to speak, in my attic for a week. Nothing more, nothing less.
"Let me remind all those who want to make it more that it is: Tiki was invited [President] Shimon Peres in Israel five years.".
Abraham h. Foxman, national Director of the Anti - Defamation League, described the commentary of Barber "scandalous and perverse."
"Trivialization of the Holocaust continues to spread and found ways news and expressions that shock the conscience", Foxman said in a press release. "Personal behaviour tiki Barber is his business." But our history and experiences are ours and deserve the greatest respect to be abused or perverted by Tiki Barber.
"The analogy with Anne Frank is not funny, it is scandalous and perverse." Anne Frank was not deliberately hiding. Before she died at the age of 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, she hid from Nazis during more than two years, fearing for his life every day. Experiences of the family Frank, recorded in the dairy products of Anne, are a unique testimony to the horrors of the Holocaust, and his life should never gradient or degraded by insensitive and offensive analogies.
In March, Barber, 36, announced that he is back after his retirement at the end of the 2006 season. The Giants still own the rights to Barber, the team with 10,449 yards record first Rusher. However, the team said it will publish is also well established NFL job.
Barber retired to become a correspondent for NBC "today Show" and "Sunday Night Football network" broadcast and criticized quarterback Giants Eli Manning and coach Tom Coughlin.
NBC did not renew the contract of Barber last year. Recently, he did video work for Yahoo! Sports.
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