"Petrino pulled the most irresponsible act I've seen in coaching in the 23 years I've covered the NFL -- taking a job where it'll be easier to win and he can treat the players like doormats; and there's not a darn thing they can do about it. One last thing: If the other coaches in the SEC use Petrino's carpetbagging skullduggery against him, good for them. I hope it works. That wouldn't be negative recruiting. It would be truthful recruiting." -- Peter King, Monday Morning QuarterbackWhere do we classify this quote by Peter King on the levels of insane over the top ramblings? The most irresponsible act I've seen in coaching? Carpetbagging skullduggery? Has there ever been less of a story then this Petrino situation that has seen more blowhards absolutely lose their minds? I really didn't even want to comment about this whole situation anymore because I think it's been blown way overboard and also because I think for the most part people have moved past it but now that Peter Ki
When I wake up in the morning, I don't really set out to mock Peter King at every chance I get but the man makes it way too easy.I mentioned this in the previous post, but it was so awkward and so strange that I just have to put it here again...j. Jacoby Ellsbury might be a young Steve Nash.Please, please explain to me what that means because I seriously can't find anything about Jacoby Ellsbury that will remind me of Steve Nash.Either way, Peter was horrible with his fantasy advice again this week. But there's one positive about his consistent ass-sucking and that is the humor that it brings to all of us.So yeah, here are this week's blunders, courtesy of SI's senior football writer...1. I wrote in my picks this week that McNair has 42 touchdown passes in his last 42 games. So, uh, going into Pittsburgh, he's not a good pick this week. Do not pick him up. I'd rather take Joey Harrington this week.By saying that McNair only has 42 Td passes in his previous 42 games already shows
Every Friday around noon Peter King calls into WEEI and talks with the Dale and Holley show. For those of you living outside Massachusetts the D&H show is sandwiched between two insufferable conservatives talking shit about the state and it's governor, and four insufferable fat guys talking out of both sides of their asses about the Patriots and Red Sox. In other words it's the only thing on EEI that a normal person can listen to without contemplating suicide five times an hour. So King is on the station right now talking about - what else - CameraGate. Don't be fooled into thinking that it was one passing remark, Peter King isn't talking about anything other then CameraGate and it's Week 6 of the NFL season. What does King want? I mean he obviously is not letting this thing with Belichick go. He's obviously going around to everyone who will talk to him about what the Patriots did and how awful Roger Goodell has handled the situation. Even today Wade Phillips had to come out and
Damn it Pete Prisco. I'm tired, I have a headache, I'm trying to have a relaxing evening but I somehow stumble upon your latest shitfest and it totally fucks everything up. Prisco is seriously my least favorite writer out there and stuff like this basically makes me want to light him on fire.Please, someone tell me why this man is a "senior writer" over at CBS because I really don't get it. Anyways, week 5 is in the books and this is how Pete ranks the teams...# 27 - The RaidersThey come off the bye week after getting their first victory against Miami two weeks ago. Daunte Culpepper has to stay as the starter.A "senior writer" should at least have his facts right shouldn't he? Oakland got their first victory against Cleveland in week 3. The Miami game was their second victory, a victory that tied them for first place at the time and Pete even mentioned this when it happened. The Cleveland/Oakland game even had the Lane Kiffen last second time-out call, something that was relived ov
I thought I was long-winded on occasion, and then I saw this list from SI.com's Peter King...the epic "King 500" of the "500 Best Players in the NFL". From 1 (Peyton Manning) to 500 (Chris Simms), King ranks 'em as he sees 'em. The highest Steeler is Troy Polamalu (28; "Donnie Shell with a ponytail"); Polamalu is joined in the top 100 by Casey Hampton (44), Alan Faneca (67), Big Ben (85) and Hines Ward (94). "The criteria: importance of the position (I had quarterback, left tackle, pass rusher and cornerback at the top, but with room for the explosive player), talent level and age -- with a nod to young players on the cusp of a breakout season." King explains how he did the list here, claiming he was talked out of making his list 1696 deep (in order to rank the entire league). Digest it if you dare. The King 500: Ranking the best players in the NFL from No. 1 to 500
For those of you that read this site regularly, you must probably think that I hate Peter King. Well, I don't hate Peter King, I really don't. It just amuses me that a Sports Illustrated "senior NFL writer" comes up with the things that Peter sometimes brings to the table.Today's fun comes courtesy of Peter's fantasy football team over at the SI football Fantasy Mock Draft. Now, I certainly don't pretend to be some expert on fantasy football because my team usually gets pounded like a Vietnamese hooker, but I do think that I can draft better than mister King.Round 1 (8 overall) Marshawn Lynch, RBBills coordinator Steve Fairchild, a Mike Martz guy, sees Marshall Faulk in Lynch. Round 2 (17)Adrian Peterson, RBAs you can see, I'm not afraid of drafting rookie running backs.As you can see, Peter went with rookie running backs with his first two picks. SI's own Fantasy Running back rankings has Lynch at number 20 and Peterson at number 26, yet Peter reaches badly for them with his fi
I've written about SI.com's Peter King many a time in this little piece of the internet called Mondesi's House. In fact, if you click the little link beneath this post that says "Peter King", you'll get every mention of his in site history. Some days, he's interesting. Most days, I totally disagree with him. Either way, I end up reading his stuff, and why, I still haven't figured out.But this morning, Peter's already-shaky credibility with me took a major blow when he released his "2007 QB Rankings". It's two pages from the mouth of SI's Football Grand Poobah devoted to nothing but QBs and QBs only. If I've learned one thing from the internet, it's that people love lists. And if I've learned one thing from King today, it's to make your list as completely irrational as possible, because every website and sports talk show from coast to coast will mention it. As the saying goes, there's no such thing as bad publicity. Although I think Michael Vick may disagree with that part
Michael David Smith dropped this post on the Fanhouse today, where he points us to an interview that Bernie Miklasz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch gave to the St. Louis Sports Magazine. Miklasz had called Chris Berman "the most annoying person in Sports Media", but that was not the highlight of the interview in my opninion.As I made my way through the interview, there was a part where Miklasz had an interesting story about our good friend Peter King. I'm just going to quote the entire piece, because it's just too good if you ask me.OK, here's a Peter King story for you. From a long time ago. We were sitting around at an NFL meeting. We were talking about families. I was mentioning how I was trying to have a child with my wife. Peter asked if we were having problems conceiving. Honestly, we weren't, but that didn't stop him from trying to assist. He went onto to explain, in very serious and clinical detail, about how to position the woman in an ideal way to maximize the potential o
The Peter King lecture series is so amusing, especially the condescending tone of his travel stories. You know if the camera’s were around, you would catch a glimpse of King being a grade-A (expletive) to airline workers. Here is his latest gripe.
I've just about had enough with these TSA screeners. First, they tell us to put our toiletries into the Ziploc-type plastic bags, with only liquids or
It looks like Evgeni is going to play on Wednesday night. (Post-Gazette) An early 2007 NFL Mock Draft. Note the lack of Tiffin players projected to go in round one. (Draftking.com) SI.com casts Seinfeld with pro athletes. I would assume this is the only time Julia Louis-Dreyfus has been compared to Von Hayes. (SI.com)Lamar Thomas' comments will be edited out of the Miami-FIU re-air on Wednesday. I'm assuming the actual fight will stay in the re-air. And if not, it will live on in YouTube infamy. (ESPN.com)ESPN Radio has outlawed the use of Deadspin as a legitimate media source. (Deadspin)Peter King, to the Steelers (Item 1-K in today's 10 Things I Think I Think):"The Steelers shouldn't get all pissy when Troy Polamalu gets tackled by the hair, or by the hair and jersey, as he did by Larry Johnson. His hair is the size of Texas, for crying out loud."Take that, you yinzers. And no, King will NOT rank your favorite team in the Fine Fifteen this week, either. (SI.com)Shockey to Raiders
Another Monday, another Peter King article. Today Peter drops this beauty on us concerning the importance of Jason Varitek in the Boston Red Sox line-up. I honestly think Jason Varitek is a bigger loss to the Red Sox than Manny Ramirez would be.Petey Pablo is probably thinking about Varitek being the Captain and inspirational leader and all...but much like the Braves bullpen, this comment makes no sense.Since my reading and writing skills are on 2nd grade level, I'm just going to keep it simple here.Manny Ramirez : Avg. 318, OBP .427, Slugging % .627, OPS .1055Jason Varitek : Avg. 243, OPB .331, Slugging % .411, OPS .743Maybe it's because of my extremely low I.Q but I fail to see how Varitek would be a bigger loss to the Red Sox. Let's not forget that Manny also protects possible M.V.P David Ortiz in the line-up.Ah well, atleast Peter's not writing about the monster dumps he takes in the airport bathrooms...
