5 Things I Think Are Wrong With What Peter King Thinks About the 2009 NFL Season
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We once shared a beverage – ours was beer, his was water – with Peter King prior to an NFL Sunday in the fall of 2005 at a sports bar in the Manhattanite escapee haven of Montclair, N.J. He wore a Cleveland Browns crewneck sweatshirt, his wife a Steelers hoodie. We assume the reason he brought his laptop to a sports bar to work on his MMQB column is because he had yet to start cashing those giant NBC checks. He’s also one of the few sportswriters we’ve been around who gets genuinely excited while watching the games and not just when an athlete gets arrested. So we admit, we’re fans. His NFL picks, on the other hand, we have a few issues with.
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Yesterday, Peter King was on a radio show that we have a history with and, when asked about Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen, offered this assessment (or something close to it; we weren’t taking notes): “Right now, Jimmy Clausen looks like … Shaun Hill.” Then, he chuckled the way people do when they’re trying to be funny and think they’ve said something funny. Soonafter, he reminded listeners that he has seen about 45 minutes of Notre Dame football this season.
Brett Favre’s next book should be titled, “How to tarnish a legacy.” On the front of the book should be an image of Favre playing battleship with Peter King, along an image of the former Packers’ QB posing in front of an ESPN headquarters sign in Bristol.