Michael Strahan Can Say Things Which Tiki Barber Can Not

Yesterday, Michael Strahan did that whole "hey, look, I'm an unbiased TV personality" thing yesterday, predicting a Super Bowl win for the Cowboys a few days after popping out of a giant Lombardi Trophy at Giants Stadium like the world's scariest-looking stripper emerging from a cake. You might remember Jerome Bettis and Tiki Barber pulling similar acts of defiance upon becoming talking heads, neither of which went over particularly well in said head's NFL city.

According to Antonio Pierce, it's still all love between the Giants and Strahan, however.

"If I was an analyst, I'd probably pick the Cowboys, too," LB Antonio Pierce said with a smirk today. "That's not outrageous; that's the norm. ... Pierce was asked if the Giants will put Strahan's words on a bulletin board. "No, no, no. We just send Mike text messages and laugh about it," Pierce said. "We know where Mike's heart is...."

And then Pierce was asked about the contrast between Strahan's words and those spoken by Tiki.

"Who?"

Nice. Before you accuse Pierce of holding a double standard, there are a few key differences. As Pierce said, they know where Strahan's heart is, because he spent his last season leading them to a trophy, as opposed to Tiki, who spent his last season disinterested, insulting, obnoxious, and isolated. And then there are the words themselves. Strahan predicted a pretty damn good division rival would win the title; Tiki more directly said very unkind things about the Giants themselves. So, yeah, the continued vitriol is kinda understandable, no?

When informed of Pierce's dig, Tiki called him a "total medal count."