Peter King (born June 10, 1957) is an American sportswriter. He wrote for ''

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'' from 1989 to 2018, including the weekly multiple-page column ''Monday Morning Quarterback''. He is the author of five books, including ''Inside the Helmet''. He has been named National Sportswriter of the Year three times. On the 2022 Normathon he hung up on Norm Hitzges for saying his middle name was Boatswain. VSBB Before coming to ''Sports Illustrated'', King was a writer for ''

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'' from 1980 to 1985 and ''

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'' from 1985 to 1989. Since 1992 King has been a member of the Board of Selectors for the

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. In 2006, he joined '' Football Night in America'',

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' Sunday night NFL studio show. In May 2018, King announced that he would be ending his 29-year tenure at ''Sports Illustrated'' to work for NBC Sports full-time. He continues to publish his long-read column, now titled ''Football Morning in America''.

Television

King joined the HBO show '' Inside the NFL'' in 2002 as a managing editor and reporter. With the return of NFL programming to NBC for the 2006 season, NBC started a studio show called '' Football Night in America'', set between the end of the Sunday afternoon games, and the primetime ''

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''. King joined the lineup of

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, Cris Collinsworth, Sterling Sharpe and Jerome Bettis, serving as a special "insider" reporter and analyst for the show, highlighting major topics from that day.

Radio

From the 2008 offseason until the fall of 2011, King co-hosted ''The Opening Drive'' on Sirius NFL Radio with Randy Cross and Bob Papa. He has been a regular contributor to Chris Russo's Sirius XM show, ''Mad Dog Unleashed'', since 2008. King is also a frequent guest on '' The Dan Patrick Show'' and

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's '' Golic and Wingo''. Once a week during football season, he joins the Musers on Dallas' KTCK-AM/ KTCK-FM for a segment in which it seems as if he doesn't want to actually appear. He comes across as very disinterested, and when he does talk he just rambles on and on. The Musers can hardly get a word in. It seems he has a major congestion issue as he is constantly clearing his throat.

Other work

In 2005 the governor of

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appointed King to a fact-finding task force in an attempt to end

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and

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use in high-school athletics. King is the author of five books on football: ''Inside the Helmet'' (1993), ''Football: A History of the Professional Game'' (1993), ''Football'' (1997), ''Greatest Quarterbacks'' (1999) and ''Sports Illustrated Monday Morning Quarterback: A fully caffeinated guide to everything you need to know about the NFL'' (2009). In 2009, he was awarded the

Dick McCann Memorial Award The Bill Nunn Jr. Award is bestowed annually by the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA) to a reporter for their "long and distinguished contribution to pro football through coverage". It is named after Bill Nunn Jr., who worked for 22 ...

for his work in professional football.

Personal life

King graduated from

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in 1975. He was a three sports star at Enfield playing soccer, basketball and baseball. He then got his degree from

Ohio University Ohio University is a public research university in Athens, Ohio. The first university chartered by an Act of Congress and the first to be chartered in Ohio, the university was chartered in 1787 by the Congress of the Confederation and subse ...

's E. W. Scripps School of Journalism. He lives in Brooklyn NY, with his wife Ann, who is a native of the

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area. They have two daughters; Laura and Mary Beth, one of whom is a

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fan. In 1997 King was inducted into the Enfield Athletic Hall of Fame.

References

External links

Peter King archive
* *''Inside the Helmet''
King's twitter pageKing's old SI twitter page
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