Tiki calls bruise thing of beauty
Tiki Barber has what he called "a deep bruise" on his left forearm, right near the spot where he broke that arm back in 2000. But precautionary X-rays came back negative, and he said yesterday that the injury "is nothing."
"I actually got it last week against the Colts," Barber said. "It went away and I thought it would be fine, but I got hit again in the same spot. I always use this arm to fend people off and they just wanted to make sure that my previous fracture wasn't disrupted.
"But it's fine. It's calloused and it looks beautiful."
Barber, by the way, is leading a campaign to raise awareness about Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). As part of SCD Awareness Month, he's started a Web site and a hotline (877-SCD-TIKI) where people can get more information on the most common inherited blood disorder in the U.S.
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