The touchdown vulture.

For those of you with a big question mark over your heads at that statement, let me quickly bring you up to speed. In fantasy football, your running back gets a certain amount of points for the yards he gains in a game. Usually he gets a point for every ten or twenty yards he gains running the football.He gets six points when he scores a touchdown.

So do the math:a running back runs 70 yards down the field and gets seven points (based on the point per ten yards formula). He gets six points just for crossing the goaline. This leads me to my problem with a touchdown vulture: he steals six points from a running back.

Some fantasy football “experts” will probably say that I’m being sophomoric and that I should have seen the writing on the wall when the Giants began bringing Jacobs in last year for short yardage situations. At 6’4” and 264 pounds, the evil Jacobs is more suitable to ram a ball over the goaline than Barber who stands at 5’10” and 205 pounds. It was only a matter of time before the big, diabolical Jacobs totally took over any short yardage or goaline situations. I should have been aware of Tiki’s immanent production drop-off and avoided him during my fantasy football draft.

My answer to them is this: he’s Tiki freakin’ Barber! He’s missed three starts since 2002 and over those seasons he has averaged nearly 1500 yards rushing, 550 yards receiving and 10 touchdowns. Even if you don’t play fantasy football, you know those are elite numbers.