Corsi said:Think about that for a second -- the employees of the new MMQB office space are going to have a monstrous fathead of their boss hung up on the wall. Can you imagine that in any other workplace? Talk about creepy.
https://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/357915524967043073Join me for my first @redditIAmA on Monday at 2 pm ET. I'll answer questions on the NFL and about our new site The MMQB.
Every photo of Peter King is a "Fathead".</obvious>Corsi said:Think about that for a second -- the employees of the new MMQB office space are going to have a monstrous fathead...hung up on the wall..
Ohhhh the possibilities. We need to start coming up with a list of questions.Corsi said:
We’ll be the thinking person’s site for pro football. If you follow us this season, visit TheMMQB.com three or four times a day between now and the Super Bowl, read our stories, watch our videos and listen to our podcasts … and if after doing that you don’t think you’ve been enlightened about the sport America loves, well, then I should be fired.
If only we had that kind of power, Pete.
To the best of my knowledge, I don’t believe a head coach’s full training-camp speech, the words and video, has ever seen the light of day … until today, in the first post in The MMQB history. We’re proud to bring it to you.
So just visit the site between 585 and 780 times from now to the Superbowl? Ok, then.ifmanis5 said:
We’ll be the thinking person’s site for pro football. If you follow us this season, visit TheMMQB.com three or four times a day between now and the Super Bowl, read our stories, watch our videos and listen to our podcasts … and if after doing that you don’t think you’ve been enlightened about the sport America loves, well, then I should be fired.
drleather2001 said:He quoted The Who's "Tommy"?
joe dokes said:sorry, that was me paraphrasing . . . .
Then again, George Allen was both old school and renaissance man
Gareth_Bale 83 points 34 minutes ago
Hi, Peter. I love your coffee column but what I want to know is why you spend so much of it talking about football?
PeterKingTheMMQB7 points 22 minutes ago
Well, when they pay me to write about Peet's Major Dickason's Blend, maybe I'll change my focus.
xmasapeksk 18 points 21 minutes ago
What gun do you suggest using on someone talking in the Acela Quiet Car?
PeterKingTheMMQB4 points 13 minutes ago
No gun. Just a good shushing.
IrkenInvaderGir 2 points 22 minutes ago
More football, less reality crap.
PeterKingTheMMQB4 points 9 minutes ago
Well,
okay. I hear that a lot. All the time, really. When I tell people my
average off-season column is about 4,000 words on football and maybe 600
words on non-football stuff, it never seems to help. Don't know why.
Do you ever read what they post on Deadspin and Kissing Suzy Kolber about you?
Deadspin, all the time. SKS, used to. Too depressing.
Couldn't resist. Quick google search shows Fat Peter finished the New Hampshire half Oct. 2010 2:19:27, a blistering 10:39 pace. Finished 12 out of 15th in his age group. Give him credit for finishing, but he's finishing with all the older chubby women. I'm no great shakes as a runner, am 2 years older than him and regularly finish 30 minutes ahead of him.drleather2001 said:So I just started training for a half marathon (my first attempt at anything longer than 10K), and I recalled some of PK's references to running, so I did a Google search.
Basically, I wanted to know how fast he was so I could beat him.
Yeah but King lives in MANHATTAN. How do you eat a candy bar? With your HANDS?LittleLouie said:Couldn't resist. Quick google search shows Fat Peter finished the New Hampshire half Oct. 2010 2:19:27, a blistering 10:39 pace. Finished 12 out of 15th in his age group. Give him credit for finishing, but he's finishing with all the older chubby women. I'm no great shakes as a runner, am 2 years older than him and regularly finish 30 minutes ahead of him.
Big brag as usual, but anyone who runs 15-20 miles a week could sport that finishing time with about 8 weeks of training. Hoo-rah Peter
drleather2001 said:But it absolutely nails my chief criticism of his football writing (which is a subset of his writing as a whole). He is so transparently afraid of pissing off his sources that he never says anything interesting.
He really does suffer from a chronic conflict of interest, in that he needs his access to continue to be the "Most Liked Football Writer" (or whatever), so he can never say anything negative about those sources (however truthful and obvious it might be), lest he stop having the access. And what should disgust any aware reader is the knowledge that the teams/players/personnel clearly KNOW this and milk PK as much as they can. Yet, he continually deludes himself into thinking that being boring and not rocking the boat is the same as being "fair", so what's the harm?
So he skates by with, at worst, half-baked "I wonder"s and "Isn't it interesting"s that hint at that which is obvious to everyone else, but he never explores it any further.
I mean, what's the fucking point of having access if you're only being shown a Disney-fied version of the NFL, and reporting it as such. What's the point of going to the Rams draft day "War Room", when you know that the only reason you have access is because 1) they are 100% confident nothing bad can happen; and 2) they know that even if it did, it would be glossed over in your column?
He's like a Soviet era journalist, being shown Potemkin Villages on a planned outing by a state official, and reporting that the economic and social health of the country is wonderful!
dunno. He's mega successful and he's paid his dues, but I'd like to think the best journalists would want to be feared, even just a little, by the people that they are covering.
drleather2001 said:Right. But what makes it so galling is that he wears his access, and the fact that people like him so much, like a medal.
I dunno. He's mega successful and he's paid his dues, but I'd like to think the best journalists would want to be feared, even just a little, by the people that they are covering.
Smiling Joe Hesketh said:Well, I've been saying the same for years: never has anyone had so much access yet done so little with it.
drleather2001 said:Right. But what makes it so galling is that he wears his access, and the fact that people like him so much, like a medal.
I dunno. He's mega successful and he's paid his dues, but I'd like to think the best journalists would want to be feared, even just a little, by the people that they are covering.
Reverend said:Imagine the book he could write had he the will and the wherewithal.
Reverend said:I know.
But imagine.
He really is the guy who knows things... unless he's trained himself not to see stuff so he can be "fair."
NatetheGreat said:That MMQB site looks utterly pointless.
Corsi said:The problem with the new site is that I can't tell what's new. There's no flow to the site at all. If he wants us to check it out three times a day, I should be able to easily tell what the most recently stories are. Instead, I get like 12 different stories just scrambled across my screen.
Phil Plantier said:Not to go too far back in the wayback machine, but King's style was exactly why he was such a great partner for Paul Zimmerman - the guy with access tells the NFL story, the guy with the cigar tells it like he sees it. Together they gave two descriptions of the same thing, but without that leavening King is just left to float away on his cloud of access.
I don't know if anyone has the heft of Dr. Z anymore, but that's what King would be looking to add to his site if he were self-aware enough.