Peter King's Top 10 NFL Players

10. Brett Favre (QB)

9. Brett Favre (QB)

8. Brett Favre (QB)

7. Brett Favre (QB)

6. Brett Favre (QB)

5. Brett Favre (QB)

4. Brett Favre (QB)

3. Brett Favre (QB)

2. Brett Favre (QB)

1. Brett Favre (QB)

I have decided that I have a new enemy. And his name is Peter King. Peter King is one of the top NFL writers in the world. There is however one minor hiccup.

You see boys and girls, Peter King was never the most brilliant or innovative sports writer. So he chooses to stick to his writing that works well. Unfortunately, that means that every football season, I read 300 articles about Brett Favre by Peter King. In fact, I’m willing to credit Peter King for the overwhelmingly absurd media attention that Brett Favre got this summer. Peter King essentially followed Favre everywhere, and when media outlets could not talk to Favre, they talked to King.

Not since Pedro Gomez’s ESPN stint was it so painfully clear that a “journalist” was only capable of talking about one thing. But not only does King do it, it does it when he doesn’t have to. Take training camp time for example. It’s a new year for every team, and the NFL is full of parity. However, in the last 2 months, more than 30% of the material that King wrote for Sports Illustrated was related to Brett Favre.

Now, if you want to be the Spliff Star to Brett Favre’s Busta Rhymes; that is fine. All I ask is that you do what it takes to do that, and not pollute my brain with otherwise useless and obvious football garbage. Here is what I am talking about:

When King was not writing about Favre over the preseason, he was hitting America with riveting titles like: “Holmgren will lead Seattle to the playoffs” (New news if you ask me), “Is Manning’s Games starting streak in jeopardy?” (Yes it is because he is injured), and “Westbrook got what he deserved” (something that frequently happens when you are the best player on a team). My personal favorite however is an article from three weeks ago where the prophet Peter King boldly proclaims that Michael Vick could indeed play professional football in 2009 when he is released from prison. I have a hard copy of that article filed in my no fucking shit drawer.

I think Peter King is a great football writer, but lazy writing like this is inexcusable; especially when there are thousands of other kids my age that would kill for his job and not waste so much ink on one player. Unbelievable.