TO SHUT THE FUCK UP!

In a shocking turn of events, Eli Manning fired back at ex-teammate Tiki Barber Tuesday, essentially telling the running back turned opinion machine to stick it where the sun don’t shine.

“I’m not going to lose any sleep about what Tiki has to say,” Manning said before practice at the University at Albany. “I guess I could have questioned his leadership skills last year with calling out the coach and having articles about him retiring in the middle of the season, and (how) he’s lost the heart (to play). As a quarterback you’re reading that your running back has lost the heart to play the game and it’s about the 10th week. I can see that a little bit at times.”

ZING!

Wow. I’m shocked that our little Elizah came out and blasted Barber in that fashion, seemingly coming ever so close to calling him a “traitorous cunt.” Oh, how he has grown. It still seems like yesterday that he was making pig vomit faces at the NFL Draft and wiping the milk off his peach fuzz mustachio.

God that picture makes me nauseous. Fuck it, Eli’s still a schmuck.

With Joel Zumaya about to be activated off of the DL by the Tigers, it got us thinking about the injury he suffered late last year, when he missed a portion of the ALDS because of intense “Guitar Hero” playing. An amazing story if there ever was one.

Although that is the only video game-related injury we’ve ever heard reported happening to a professional athlete, we’re pretty damn sure there have been others in the past that went unreported:

One can only imagine the pinching, scratching and slapping that went on in the Manning household over a game of Bubble Bobble. And it’s pretty easy to see Nate Robinson as that spastic kid everyone knew that stood up and moved his entire body while playing Street Fighter 2.

As if flailing around like a fish out of water would make T. Hawk any better of a character. God that guy fucking sucked.

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