Holy damn...Tiki Barber, too??

[Blue_Tires]

Traci Lynn Johnson, Tiki Barber Sex Scandal: Former Giant, Babysitter Had Affair For Two Years


The hits just keep on coming for former New York Giants star Tiki Barber.

Just days after it was first announced that Barber's marriage to his wife Ginny was over, it was revealed that the football great had taken up with a 23-year-old former NBC intern who had babysat the couple's twins.

Now comes word that the relationship was more than a mere casual affair, instead painting Barber as a lovesick cheater who lavished his mistress with gifts for at least two years.

Barber met Traci Lynn Johnson while she was still just an underage college student, but that reportedly didn't stop him from sending expensive presents, meeting her friends, and even staying over in her dorm room.

A source tells the New York Post, "On her 21st birthday, he sent her 21 dozen roses to her dorm. He also gave her a diamond and sapphire bracelet."

Despite Johnson having a boyfriend, and of course Barber having a wife and family, the couple brazenly met in public and would have lunch together at 30 Rock, where NBC headquarters is located.

The whole affair was a "Tiki" time bomb waiting to blow up in their faces.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/08/traci-lynn-johnson-tiki-b_n_529867.html

[rcrush]

1. What is so surprising about this?

[Blue_Tires]

4. he was just thought to be above all of this, i guess

Some fun quotes about the lifelong resentment he had toward his bedhopping absentee dad:


• "I don't give a that relationship didn't work....Not only did abandon her, I felt like he abandoned us for a lot of our lives. I have a hard time forgiving that." (2004, New York Post)

• "What did I feel for my father? Not love or hate. Those emotions are too strong. It was something worse. Indifference. But in another sense, I realize that I still have hang-ups about not growing up with a dad. Maybe my life has been like that of other abandoned sons: a long search for a father figure." (2007, Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond)

• " my mother. She was a single mother with no support from my father and sacrificed a lot of her life for my brother and me. She always found a way to provide and never left us wanting for anything." (2010, NY Metro Parents)

• "As men, we want to have pride, we want to stand up and beat our chest and say, 'We did this. We took care of our family.' When you don't have that, you want to hide a little bit, you want to run away.... the core relationship. I mean, are you getting into a relationship because you really love and care and want to be with this woman, or just because you saw her at a club, and she looked hot — 'Oh man, I got to get on that!'?" (2009, "A Father's Promise," MSNBC)

"I want to be an honorable man, because that's what I want them both to be...My family is everything to me." (2007, Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond, via NY Post)

http://theweek.com/article/index/201652/Tiki_Barbers_hypocritical_adultery

[NewJeffCT]

2. OMG - a pro athlete had an affair

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

[Ishoutandscream2]

3. But, but, but only Dallas Cowboys do this