f. New York/New Jersey swallowed the Super Bowl. If you live on the east side of Manhattan, as I do, there was no indication anything different was up on Sunday.
I haven't read a MMQB column in about a year (I just don't have the time any more and King doesn't tell me stuff that I can't pick up elsewhere), but when the NFL announced that NY/NJ was going to get the Super Bowl a few years ago, King went ballistic. The weather, the traffic, the unfairness of playing a big game outside, how sponsors are going to be angry, etc. And he kept at it for a good couple of months, even when he wasn't talking about the Super Bowl, he'd figure out some way to jab the choice of NY/NJ. Like anything else Peter King writes about, it all came back to him and how this was going to severely fuck with his life.
But, I haven't heard say anything bad about the choice of NY/NJ as a Super Bowl site, in fact, it sounds as if he did a complete 180. Did he bitch about during the season or the weeks leading up to the game? I wonder if Goodell got to him?
If you don't remember his hissy fits, it was pretty epic, even for Peter King. Just weeks and weeks and weeks of bitching about the Super Bowl in NY/NJ and how the NFL was making a gigantic mistake.