Posted on 06/05/2006 5:32:09 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
NEW YORK – Tiki Barber and Jonathan Tisch have been leaders in their respective fields for many years. They broke new ground on Wednesday night when they became the first active player and team owner to jointly interview the commissioner of a major professional sports league in a public forum. Barber, the Giants’ record-setting running back, and Tisch, the team’s treasurer, spoke with NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue for 90 minutes at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. Approximately 600 people attended the event.
Barber and Tisch queried Tagliabue on a wide range of subjects, including the commissioner’s childhood, his desire to place a team in the Los Angeles area and the NFL’s continued role in helping New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region recover from Hurricane Katrina. Perhaps most poignantly for the panelists was Tagliabue’s response to a question posed by Tisch about the commissioner’s relationship with his father, Bob Tisch, and Wellington Mara, the Giants owners who passed away three weeks apart last fall.
“The first thing that always strikes me is how similar they were and how different they were,” Tagliabue said. “Similar in being great people, great caring people. Your dad and Well Mara cared about people, they cared about doing the right thing. They were principled. They cared about family and that included the organization and included people in the league, so in some ways they were very similar.
“In other ways, you couldn’t find two more different people than Bob Tisch and Wellington Mara, in the sense that your dad was always looking out for the national issues. He was always looking at the robustness of the city and its economy and way beyond football, and...
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Gotta like Teek. The guy had a heck of a season last year and is sharp as a tack.
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