Kinglandia

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:01 am

PK's new football-centric SI-backed spin-off site made it's debut this morning. Plus, with the NFL season starting up we'll soon need a catch-all thread for MMQB-isms.

I haven't read anything yet as I've been hypnotized by how the logo redraws itself when I scroll down from the bottom of the page. Up, down. Up, down. Up, down....

(h/t to someonesomewhere for suggesting Kinglandia when SI first announced this venture earlier in the year)

Post by **Sabo** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:29 am

I noticed the article about the Patriots, and then the article about Belichick, and then the picture of Tom Brady and then I left the site without clicking on any of it. Just not my cup of tea.

Post by **brian** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:32 am

Not a huge fan of the "columns" design. I know it's in vogue now, but I find it really busy and distracting for trying to find what I want to read.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 12:35 pm

Sure I'll delve into the site one day, but when one of the article links reads: "HIS OWN MAN - We don't know how Manti Te'o will fare in the NFL, but we know one thing he's not - Junior Seau." My eyes glaze over.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 12:39 pm

I'm trying to think of something nice to say about it. Ummm . . . it's not as awful as Bleacher Report?

Post by **brian** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 12:45 pm

Scottie wrote:I'm trying to think of something nice to say about it. Ummm . . . it's not as awful as Bleacher Report?

Accurate and nice. Well played.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 1:17 pm

Made it through the MMQB column, and it was worth it for this link he included.

The two had met in a hacky-sack circle in early February and announced plans to marry just two weeks later, Streets said. But the relationship quickly turned tumultuous, Streets said, and the pair broke up on March 25.

Hall took his few possessions and moved out of his fiancée’s home and into a tree at Mclaren Park. But as Hall climbed the tree and attempted to sleep that first night, he became cold and returned home, Streets said.

Things go downhill from there.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 1:46 pm

rass wrote:Made it through the MMQB column, and it was worth it for this link he included.

Things go downhill from there.

Criminy, there are eleven straight one-line or two-line paragraphs ending with "Streets said"; that is atrocious. There are fifteen straight one-line or two-line paragraphs including "Streets said". Fifteen! There are only nineteen paragraphs, eleven of which are one-line, none more than two-lines and just under 80% use "Streets said". So . . . let's see. The lines per paragraph go like this: 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1. That is wretched, really. And his LinkedIn profile includes these tidbits:

Will Kane, Reporter
Current: Staff Writer at San Francisco Chronicle
Past: Editor in Chief & President at The Daily Californian, Undergraduate Intern, Civil Rights Division at U.S. Department of Justice, City News.
Education: University of California, Berkeley

Ah, fuck me, he's a Berkeley grad. Gak. I suppose he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in "The Increasingly Brief Dynamics Of Short Attention Spans".

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 2:04 pm

Of course, nothing is simple about Lewis’ past, including the double homicide in Atlanta 13 years ago for which he was originally charged with two counts of murder. In exchange for his testimony against two men who were with Lewis that night, the charges against him were reduced and he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice.

That fucking fantastic reporting. You're only leaving out the most important part.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 3:29 pm

Jerloma wrote:
Of course, nothing is simple about Lewis’ past, including the double homicide in Atlanta 13 years ago for which he was originally charged with two counts of murder. In exchange for his testimony against two men who were with Lewis that night, the charges against him were reduced and he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. Streets said
That fucking fantastic reporting. You're only leaving out the most important part.

Think I fixed it.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 1:03 am

Fahk. We missed his Reddit AMA.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:26 am

He got trolled so hard.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 11:26 am

Has anyone actually read this site? Is it any good? Worth checking out?

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:08 am

PK wants Minnesota to fire Jerry Kill because of his disability:

Can some doctor out there tell me why the University of Minnesota should keep Jerry Kill coaching football after his fourth seizure in three years on a Gopher game day? I don’t want to be insensitive. I’d really like to know if it makes sense to keep him on as coach.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:16 am

While I don't think he should be fired per se, clearly it's a problem that needs to be addressed in some manner.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:25 am

I'm mostly just giving PK shit for being pretty insensitive while stating "I don't want to be insensitive", but assuming there is no treatment Kill is refusing for his epilepsy and that he is medically cleared after (and before) each seizure, how else should it be addressed?

howard · Post by **howard** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:30 am

Hipster young PK said the same thing about Joy Division.

Post by **Sabo** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 3:57 pm

Excellent article on MMQB about Geno Atkins. I learned a lot about how a defensive lineman plays the game.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Nov 11, 2013 3:10 pm

On one May day in 2008, in mid-lather, my phone rang. It was Brett Favre.

Not as sexy as it sounds.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 6:50 am

On PK's sense of style

Exactly as sexy as it sounds

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 7:26 am

Dallas 24, Detroit 20 was the kind of game that:

Caused Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie to join Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones in a pulsating three-way Cowboymaniac hug in the owner’s box in Arlington, Texas.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 12:05 pm

He's like the kid in Always Sunny.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 4:53 pm

Jerloma wrote:He's like the kid in Always Sunny.

But he's Always Fatty to us.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 1:52 pm

Uhhhhh...

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Jul 30, 2015 4:06 pm

PFF = piss friends forever?

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:02 am

This is how this week's MMQB column opens...

Prologue to a column, with a point about not taking preseason results seriously:
In the past 11 regular seasons, the Patriots are 136-40.
In the past 11, the Patriots are 20-24.
(Iverson voice: “We talkin’ ’bout practice!”)

Post by **brian** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:14 am

He really is the worst. I can't even read the MMQB column any more. It's just all crap.

Keg · Post by **Keg** » Thu Aug 27, 2015 3:50 am

rass wrote:Uhhhhh...

Did he ever explain why he posted this picture?

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Aug 27, 2015 6:01 am

Good takedown of King and his behaviour on Deflate gate on the Awful Announcing site.

http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/peter-k ... dible.html

But one would also think King would at least remember his own reporting on the biggest NFL scandal of the decade, especially when he called out ESPN for doing the exact same thing he did. The fact that King could write a condemnation of ESPN while forgetting he slipped up on the same banana peel is mind-boggling.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 8:58 pm

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 6:38 am

I bet he totally met him

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 6:48 am

@SI_PeterKing: Kudos to @88PKane. Never met the man, but seems like a terrific guy and a credit to his sport. Great OT assist last night.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 7:44 am

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:30 am

Christ, he can't even get the Revolutionary War right

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:52 pm

rass wrote:

that's pretty much the most Peter King thing ever...

Post by **Sabo** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:18 am

Here's an excellent article (part 1 of 2!) on how Carson Palmer prepared for the Cardinals game at Cleveland a few weeks ago.

This is the kind of story King should write more of considering the access he gets. I could do without all the nonsensical coffee, beer and travel-related crap he writes in his weekly Monday column.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:32 am

An Open Letter to NFL Players...

On Saturday night, the NFL scheduled a major television event for the marquee game of the first playoff weekend. A rivalry game, with intense feelings between players and cities, featuring one of the great franchises in American sports, the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers at the division-champion Bengals was the most anticipated game of the weekend, and the CBS audience proved it. At the height of the telecast, between 10 and 11 p.m., some 27.5 million people were tuned into the game. The combined TV audience for the other major-network programming at that time was 6.98 million viewers. So, as this game reached its climax, four out of every five major-network viewers were watching the NFL game. It was exactly the magnet the NFL had in mind when they booked this game for prime time.

This is what America—families watching together, fathers, mothers and children, teens, college kids, everyone else along the football spectrum, all important consumers of your game—saw in the last 17 minutes of this game:

Post by **brian** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:35 am

Another sanctimonious ass. Not like Burfict pistol-whipped someone on the field. It was a dirty hit and he earned his penalty and suspension but come the fuck on with the "what about the children?" bullshit.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:40 am

I shudder to think what would have happened had we not put our girls to bed before half time.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:46 am

I bet he believed in Santa until college.