Peter King joins NBC’s
Football Night in America
The New York Post is reporting that Peter King is going to be NBC’s Football Night in America’s information man. We’re not sure but we think that’s the Chris Mortensen role from Monday Night Countdown. By the way, were the suits at NBC trying to come up with the most awkward name possible for their MNF pregame show? Well, they certainly succeeded.
If you don’t know who Peter King is, consider yourself lucky. He’s the football “expert” who ranks below this pussy on the list of people we’d look to for insight on the NFL. Here are some of King’s greatest hits from last year. (SI is at least smart enough to not post his complete archives, even if they won’t get rid of him.)
- On the Chargers-Colts matchup in week 15: Chargers hearts got ripped out last week. Indy steams toward history. Yes, Peyton plays 60 minutes. Well, at least he got 1 out of 3 right — Peyton did play 60 minutes.
- After the Eagles got trounced by Dallas in week 5: Philly will go 4-1 in those games and inch toward home-field advantage through the NFC playoffs. Again. The home-field the Eagles got last year was watching the playoffs from their couches.
- Favre is 36 now. Twice since 1997 he’s had back-to-back games with seven touchdown passes or more. He’s on one of those streaks right now. Just when you think the guy’s ready to go down the tubes, he’s back, playing like it’s 1997. After that game, Favre threw 8 TDs and 21 INTs.
It’s not just the bad predictions, everyone makes bad predictions; Peter King’s columns can be put together the way the manatees put together the Family Guy episodes on the latest South Park. Except instead of a million idea balls, all you would need to generate Peter King thoughts are: Patriots, Brady, great, Montclair Field Hockey, Belichick, awesome, Legend, starbucks latte, Parcells, my daughter, one in a lifetime, New England, greatest. That’s it. Bridget Moynahan must be the most understanding woman in the world to allow Peter King to fellate Tom Brady throughout the football season.
Now we get to hear more of his bloviating on Monday Night. Wonderful.
