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On July 28, 2011, the Giants officially removed Barber from the retired list, allowing him to freely sign with any team.<ref>http://newyork.sbnation.com/new-york-giants/2011/7/28/2301751/new-york-giants-roster-cuts-tiki-barber-officially-an-ex-giant {{webarchive |url=https://www.webcitation.org/1312942126000772?url=http://newyork.sbnation.com/new-york-giants/2011/7/28/2301751/new-york-giants-roster-cuts-tiki-barber-officially-an-ex-giant |date=August 10, 2011 }}<!--DashBotWC--></ref> On August 2, 2011, Barber began working out with the [[Miami Dolphins]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82137b0a/article/barber-works-out-for-dolphins-in-attempt-at-nfl-comeback?module=HP11_headline_stack |title=news: Barber works out for Dolphins in attempt at NFL comeback |publisher=Nfl.com |accessdate=September 6, 2011}}</ref>
On September 5, 2011, Barber's agent, Mark Lepselter<ref>{{cite web |last=Martin |first=Cam |url=http://www.mediabistro.com/sportsnewser/tiki-barber%E2%80%99s-agent-knew-early-that-broadcasting-career-was-doomed_b7948 |title=Tiki Barber’s agent knew early that broadcasting career was doomed |publisher=Mediabistro.com |date=April 22, 2011 |accessdate=September 6, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917140234/http://www.mediabistro.com/sportsnewser/tiki-barber%E2%80%99s-agent-knew-early-that-broadcasting-career-was-doomed_b7948 |archivedate=September 17, 2011 |df= }}</ref> confirmed that no [[NFL]] team was interested in signing him to their team.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Tiki-Barber-remains-unemployed-and-sad?urn=nfl-wp6443 |title=Tiki Barber remains unemployed and sad |publisher=Sports.yahoo.com |date=August 31, 2011 |accessdate=September 6, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|agency=AP |url=http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/09/05/former-giants-star-tiki-barber-devastated-at-being-snubbed-by-every-nfl-team/ |title=Former Giants Star Tiki Barber 'Devastated' At Being Snubbed By Every NFL Team |publisher=FoxNews.com |date=April 7, 2010 |accessdate=September 6, 2011}}</ref>
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Barber married his University of Virginia sweetheart Virginia Cha Barber on May 15, 1999, and the couple resided in [[Upper East Side]] New York City with Cha's parents living in an en suite. Cha—of Korean and Vietnamese descent—was a fashion publicist for Zegna, a men’s designer-clothing label.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://nypost.com/2004/11/28/worlds-apart-all-together-at-home-with-tiki-barbers-melting-pot-family | title=Worlds Apart & All Together: At Home with Tiki Barber's Melting Pot Family | first=Paul | last=Schwartz | work=[[New York Post]] | date=28 November 2004}}</ref> They have two sons, A.J. (Atiim Kiambu Junior), born July 8, 2002, and Chason, born March 18, 2004; and twin daughters Riley and Ella, born May 24, 2010.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.si.com/vault/2001/07/23/307822/play-mates-ronde-and-tiki-barber-went-their-separate-ways-to-make-it-in-the-nfl-but-the-bond-between-these-identical-twins-is-as-strong-as-ever | title=Play Mates Ronde and Tiki Barber went their separate ways to make it in the NFL, but the bond between these identical twins is as strong as ever | date=July 23, 2001 | accessdate=September 24, 2008 | work=[[Sports Illustrated]] | first=John Ed | last=Bradley | page=3}}</ref>
On April 5, 2010, while Cha was seven months pregnant with their twin daughters, it was announced that Barber and his wife were separating after 11 years of marriage.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/timing_tiki_plays_field_TMZxMDNXxvBbNgVBToZL8O | work=New York Post | first1=Emily | last1=Smith | first2=Chris | last2=Wilson | title=Tiki Barber dumps pregnant wife for hot blonde | date=April 7, 2010}}</ref><ref name="DN0410">{{cite news | url=http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/04/08/2010-04-08_really_dad_i_babysit_for_barber_tikis_gal_convinced_kin_all_was_innocent.html | title=Ex-Giant star Tiki Barber's girlfriend, Traci Johnson, told her family she was just babysitting | last=Lysiak | first=Matthew | author2=Larry Mcshane | date=April 9, 2010 | publisher=''[[New York Daily News]]'' | accessdate=April 9, 2010}}</ref> It later became public that Barber had left Cha for 23-year-old Traci Lynn Johnson, whom he met while she was an NBC intern and he worked on [[Today (U.S. TV program)|the ''Today'' show]]. Johnson had babysat his and Ginny's sons.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://nypost.com/2010/04/09/tikis-wife-crushed-by-long-term-affair/ | title=Tiki's wife crushed by long-term affair | first=Emily | last=Smith | date=9 April 2010 | work=[[New York Post]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.csnphilly.com/04/07/10/Tiki-Barber-Leaves-Pregnant-Wife-for-23-/landing.html?blockID=211368 | title=Tiki Barber Leaves Pregnant Wife for 23-Year Old | publisher=csnphilly.com | accessdate=April 7, 2010 | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://archive.is/20120908052526/http://www.csnphilly.com/04/07/10/Tiki-Barber-Leaves-Pregnant-Wife-for-23-/landing.html?blockID=211368 | archivedate=September 8, 2012 | df= }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last=Smith | first=Stephanie | url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/tiki_to_take_new_bride_1cGqjjyhCUEu3KpSwKiQbK | title=Ex-Giants great Tiki Barber engaged girlfriend Traci Lynn Johnson | work=[[New York Post]] | date=August 30, 2011 | accessdate=December 13, 2012}}</ref>
In the May 30, 2011 issue of ''Sports Illustrated'', Barber described hiding out with Johnson in his agent Mark Lepselter's attic so that he would not get caught.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.si.com/vault/2011/05/30/106073162/tiki-barber-gets-real | title=Tiki Barber Gets Real | date=30 May 2011 | first=L. Jon | last=Wertheim | magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]]}}</ref> Barber was quoted as saying that "Lep's Jewish, and it was like a reverse [[Anne Frank]] thing." Barber's comments were quickly condemned by ''New York Post'' sports columnist [[Mike Vaccaro]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/giants/tasteless_tiki_VgoV055eG1W8NCF6bbwE8J | work=New York Post | first1=Mike | last1=Vaccaro | title=Tiki comparing self with Anne Frank just despicable | date=May 26, 2011}}</ref>
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