Pretty sure it's him. He was in Atlanta for Falcons camp and took in the Braves game. There were other pictures/tweets referencing the same. He'd have mentioned it by now if he was hacked.Are we sure that wasn't someone hacking his account?
The guy in the pic is his friend from Pro Football Focus.Are we sure that wasn't someone hacking his account?
https://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/232350803480940546Five words I never thought I'd type in my lifetime: We just landed on Mars.
This is the funniest thing he's ever written.
That cant be realKing tweeted this the other night:
https://twitter.com/....com%2FT7pCnEje
What the fuck is wrong with this guy?
My god this is awesome, and such a great distillation of PK's largest issue: He can't get outside himself in any way. If he hasn't heard of something, it can't possibly exist. He's so sure of himself, he'd never think to google something to make sure before he made a crazy statement of fact. That seems to be the core of his haughtiness, if you ask me.https://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/232350803480940546
Except, for like, the seven other times we've landed on Mars.
He's hoping to trade some of his Dachau gravel for some Mars gravel.Maybe he thinks there were people on it.
Just had to post this. What does it have to do with the article? Absolutely nothing. He randomly put it into the column to try and impress us simple folks that he sat with Luck at the combine! PK is so connected an popular!!I remember sitting with Luck at the Scouting Combine in the hotel room of his agent, which overlooked Lucas Oil Stadium.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/peter_king/08/12/mmqb/index.html#ixzz23Qs1u1yI
Stadia? Fuck you.2. I think I have to agree with Neil Hornsby, the Pro Football Focus guru who traveled with Team SI to 16 camps and/or stadia over the past 19 days, about Ben Roethlisberger.
In case you forgot since last week. Peter King is just soooo busy.k. Got a lot of catching up to do on "The Newsroom." Someday.
Quote of the Week IV
"Arizona will be not charged with a timeout.''
-- Replacement referee Craig Ochoa in the Baltimore-Atlanta preseason game.
That's good to note, especially since the Arizona Cardinals were 803 miles away at the time, and their game in Kansas City wasn't due to start for another 24-and-a-half hours.
Your "photo ID drivers license"? Is that anything like a driver's license?Mr. Starwood Preferred Member Travel Note of the Week I
Just before 3 a.m. Friday, the SI-EvoShield NFL Training Camp Tour docked in Sandusky, Ohio, and I roused myself and walked to the front desk of one of the local hotels. I said hello to the gal behind the desk and handed her my photo ID drivers license and my American Express card to check in. She looked at the cards and put them down next to her keyboard.
"Last name, sir?''
Oh. I guess you couldn't let it go. You had to be a dick. At 3 AM. To a hotel worker who probably earns one-fifteenth what you do in a year. Ok. I guess all is fair in love and Starwood-Travel-Notes-That-Interest-Only-Me or whatever.Not quite believing she asked this question after I handed her two plastic cards with my full name on both, I said, "Schwartz.''
Ah, so she caught her mistake without your help! She realized that the name you gave her did not match the ID and credit card, and was about to say something! But you had to press the issue. Again, this is at 3 AM.She typed away for three or four seconds, and then said, "Uhhhhh ... "
"Last name is King,'' I said. "Just curious -- why'd you ask me my last name when I just handed you my license and my credit card?''
Ok. So the girl made a mental boner, and tried to cover it up by repeating the reason for the policy of asking for ID when someone checks in. Why do they ask for ID? Well, I'd guess they want to make sure that you are, in fact, the person listed on the credit card. They probably also want to make sure that you are the name in the computer in the event you trash the room or steal a bathrobe or something."Well, we just want to make sure it's you who's checking in instead of someone using your identification,'' she said.
His mind raced. Unlike our poor little simpleton worker (no wonder she has a such a shitty job, am I right?), King' brain is on fire at all times, no matter the hour.My mind raced. If someone was doing that, wouldn't someone have had to bug my phone or steal my personal information from somewhere to know I had a room at this $119-a-night palace in Sandusky, Ohio, and then use my stolen or forged cards to check into said Sandusky palace?
I have traveled far less than King, and I've heard a lot of stupider things. Not thinking to look at a guy's fucking license and just asking for his name doesn't even crack the...It's the most colossally stupid thing I can remember at a hotel front desk, but I had no desire to say anything else at 3 in the morning in Sandusky, Ohio, other than, "Where is the nearest pillow?''
What exactly do you think coffee is, Peter? It is coffee-flavored water. See, I know you've probably never made a coffee on your own in your entire entitled life with everyone waiting on you hand and foot, but you take these things called coffee grounds, and you run water through them. The result? Coffee flavored water. Then fat fucks like you load the coffee up with sugar and cream and coffeemate and whatever other fattening ingredients you can get your paws on so that it no longer tastes like coffee. But trust me, at its essence, coffee is coffee-flavored water.g. Coffeenerdness: Really, Marriott Towne Place Suite and Residence Inns. Have you tasted the stuff you call coffee? It's barely coffee-flavored water.
What a fucking asshole. Not only does the poor girl explain why that measure was in place, but then he rips the town and hotel (sarcastically calls it a "$119-a-night...Sandusky palace"). Listen, you entitled turd, it doesn't have to be the freaking Westin to necessitate security measures.Mr. Starwood Preferred Member Travel Note of the Week I
Just before 3 a.m. Friday, the SI-EvoShield NFL Training Camp Tour docked in Sandusky, Ohio, and I roused myself and walked to the front desk of one of the local hotels. I said hello to the gal behind the desk and handed her my photo ID drivers license and my American Express card to check in. She looked at the cards and put them down next to her keyboard.
"Last name, sir?''
In case you forgot I'm busy, I'm busy.f. I finally got to see a bunch of Olympic highlights on NBC Sunday night. Wow, we're good. It bugs me that I missed the Olympics -- the stories and the competition. I totally missed the Mo Farah story, and Oscar Pistorius. Bummer. Glad I caught up on Missy Franklin and that crazy U.S. soccer win over Canada. And though I'm not a great hoops fan, congrats to the men and women on their golds too.
What? :blink:4. I think I have no inside information on this -- I really don't -- but I'm hearing that no one in the Cleveland front office or coaching staff should feel secure beyond December. Prospective new owner wants to judge everyone fresh.
I think I have no inside information on this -- I really don't -- but I'm hearing that no one in the Cleveland front office or coaching staff should feel secure beyond December. Prospective new owner wants to judge everyone fresh.
This is the first thing I thought of. If he didn't hear it from someone in the Cleveland front office then he heard it from another reporter who heard it from the Cleveland front office. If he has no "inside info" then he heard it from another reporter or he pulled it from his ass. See, new owners generally like to bring in their own people so, therefore, the holdovers may not be so secure. King, once again, isn't doing any reporting here by making bullshit up to fill his column or re-reporting what someone else already reported.Well, if it's not inside info, where's it from?
Isn't Sandusky the very definition of a tourist trap? After all, it's got one of the best amusement parks in the country a stone's throw away. Not disagreeing on the douchebaggery by King though.He is also B) shitting on a town for not having a very-nice hotel (and, by extension, is shitting on every non-affluent town in the country that's smaller than 100,000 and isn't a tourist trap).
Not only that, but it's pretty douchey and reckless to scare the shit out of the entire Cleveland staff and FO for no good reason. Not all of them are as rich as Peter King and would be just fine financially if they got fired. I'm sure they're all worried enough by the ownership change but gratuitously circulating rumors that they'll all be unemployed by the end of the year is just cruel.This is the first thing I thought of. If he didn't hear it from someone in the Cleveland front office then he heard it from another reporter who heard it from the Cleveland front office. If he has no "inside info" then he heard it from another reporter or he pulled it from his ass. See, new owners generally like to bring in their own people so, therefore, the holdovers may not be so secure. King, once again, isn't doing any reporting here by making bullshit up to fill his column or re-reporting what someone else already reported.
The hotel stuff is mindboggling.
Not sure exactly what he was in, but you can definitely drink in limos, party vans, etc.Isn't Sandusky the very definition of a tourist trap? After all, it's got one of the best amusement parks in the country a stone's throw away. Not disagreeing on the douchebaggery by King though.
The only reason I read MMQB this week was for the Oberon shout-out since it's one of my favorite beers, but I found his story related to it a little off-putting. He drank it in the back of a van on the Jersey Turnpike? Isn't that technically illegal or something? Or are open container laws different for chauffeured vehicles?
Peter King -- now with more EvoShield!™BTW, there are 10 separate mentions of EvoShield in today's column. Ten.
The quote from King is a true classic. It's also one of the most intellectually dishonest things ever written by a man who redefines what it means to be intellectually dishonest on a weekly basis.Well, if it's not inside info, where's it from?
That quote is a total PK all-timer.The quote from King is a true classic. It's also one of the most intellectually dishonest things ever written by a man who redefines what it means to be intellectually dishonest on a weekly basis.
What he is telling us is, by definition, inside information. Passing it along with the caveat "I think I have no inside information" is simply a way of reporting gossip as news without being accountable for what he reports.
The funny part is that it was just a couple of months ago that King was lecturing us on the ethics of being a journalist, so this is a man who knows these things...
He starts with "I have no inside information," but also "I really don't," as in "yeah, hard to believe, ME no inside-info--try to stay with me." It's also an assurance. That assurance is breaking up the middle of the sentence, but then is followed immediately by "...but I'm hearing..." which is LOL-city on its own.I think I have no inside information on this -- I really don't -- but I'm hearing that no one in the Cleveland front office or coaching staff should feel secure beyond December. Prospective new owner wants to judge everyone fresh.
Yeah, it's either that, or the blanket story. A refresher story for those who don't remember:That might be my most-hated "King Travel Notes" piece ever
He is the worst manner of douchebag.Being an idiot to flight attendants. As in the woman on my United flight to Denver early Tuesday morning, who twice rang her flight-attendant call button to ask for a blanket, which, in coach, often either doesn't exist anymore or only does if there are extras from first class. The second time, she said, "It must be 55 degrees in here. Can you please do something!'' It wasn't. And happily, the flight attendant did nothing, and the woman shivered in normal temperatures most of the way across the country.
Here's Peter King from his latest column:I'm tremendously conflicted on this story. I've thought about it for three days straight, trying to divine what's right and wrong. I enrolled in college to study journalism in 1975, one year after the Watergate burglary and coverup forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency. I'm all for the public's right to know. And in the end, I'm tempted to say the more clarity about this story the better, just so the public understands why Goodell acted with such an iron hand. But I can't get over the way the material was acquired and made public. It's just not right.
One more note on the Vilma case: His court filing last week identified me as someone "commonly known as a go-to-source for NFL leaks.'' When I saw that, my chest puffed out a bit. Maybe it's true, maybe it isn't. But if it is, isn't that what reporters want? Don't reporters want to be known for finding people in the business they cover to tell them things that are hidden from the light of day? I'll never be a twentieth of a Woodward or a Bernstein, but this business is all about telling readers and listeners and viewers things they don't know. And I'd be proud if in this case I've done that.
I think I have no inside information on this -- I really don't -- but I'm hearing that no one in the Cleveland front office or coaching staff should feel secure beyond December. Prospective new owner wants to judge everyone fresh.
It's staggering that he doesn't realize what a complete and total asshole he comes across as.....What a fucking asshole. Not only does the poor girl explain why that measure was in place, but then he rips the town and hotel (sarcastically calls it a "$119-a-night...Sandusky palace"). Listen, you entitled turd, it doesn't have to be the freaking Westin to necessitate security measures.
The great thing about PK is that he compares himself to Woodward and Bernstein, and then, in the same sentence, manages to show exactly why he's not a journalist by any stretch of the imagination. The fucking hubris combined with the imbecility is truly breathtaking. "This business is all about telling readers and listeners and viewers things they don't know." Well I'm glad PK admits to being a gossip columnist, but I don't ever want to see him ever again put his name in the same sentence as any journalists with real integrity.One more note on the Vilma case: His court filing last week identified me as someone "commonly known as a go-to-source for NFL leaks.'' When I saw that, my chest puffed out a bit. Maybe it's true, maybe it isn't. But if it is, isn't that what reporters want? Don't reporters want to be known for finding people in the business they cover to tell them things that are hidden from the light of day? I'll never be a twentieth of a Woodward or a Bernstein, but this business is all about telling readers and listeners and viewers things they don't know. And I'd be proud if in this case I've done that.
I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when he wrote that sentence.The great thing about PK is that he compares himself to Woodward and Bernstein, and then, in the same sentence, manages to show exactly why he's not a journalist by any stretch of the imagination. The fucking hubris combined with the imbecility is truly breathtaking. "This business is all about telling readers and listeners and viewers things they don't know." Well I'm glad PK admits to being a gossip columnist, but I don't ever want to see him ever again put his name in the same sentence as any journalists with real integrity.
I dunno, I define "Tourist Trap" as a place that's destination unto itself. There aren't many towns that qualify. Maybe Jackson Hole. Martha's Vineyard. Aspen.Isn't Sandusky the very definition of a tourist trap? After all, it's got one of the best amusement parks in the country a stone's throw away. Not disagreeing on the douchebaggery by King though.
That was on the subject of the Gold Medal Basketball game. Which was a) extremely close at that point, and b) pretty damn exciting to a lot of people. Does he need to go out of his way to try and be a turd in a punch bowl when people are trying to enjoy things he doesn't approve of? Why not skip the commentary?@SI_PeterKing: RT @DanGrazianoESPN: Am I the only one who (a) doesn't care if they win and (b) doesn't think there's a chance they'll lose? ... Two.
@SI_PeterKing: RT @overdesigned: I can't follow you any more. Too holier-than-thou, too haughty ... #Thankgodigotridofoneofthem
Fair enough, though I'd replace that list with Wall Drug, Wisconsin Dells and Branson as the prime examples of tourist trap towns. My point was that because of the massive amusement park next door, Sandusky is more touristy than say Norwalk.I dunno, I define "Tourist Trap" as a place that's destination unto itself. There aren't many towns that qualify. Maybe Jackson Hole. Martha's Vineyard. Aspen.
Wall Drug is a store, not a town.Fair enough, though I'd replace that list with Wall Drug, Wisconsin Dells and Branson as the prime examples of tourist trap towns. My point was that because of the massive amusement park next door, Sandusky is more touristy than say Norwalk.
Either way King is a shortsighted prick