Peter King (sportswriter)

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Peter King
Born (1957-06-10) June 10, 1957 (age 68)
Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation
Education Ohio University
Genre Sports journalism
SpouseAnn
Children2
Website
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Peter Andrew King (born June 10, 1957) is an American sportswriter. He wrote for Sports Illustrated from 1989 to 2018, including a weekly multiple-page column Monday Morning Quarterback. He is the author of five books, one of which is Inside the Helmet. He has been named National Sportswriter of the Year three times. [1]

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Before working at Sports Illustrated, King was a writer for The Cincinnati Enquirer from 1980 to 1985 and Newsday from 1985 to 1989. Since 1992, King has been a member of the Board of Selectors for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. [2] In 2006, he joined Football Night in America , NBC Sports' Sunday night show about the NFL. [3] In May 2018, King announced that he would be ending his 29-year tenure at Sports Illustrated to work for NBC Sports full-time. [4] [5] He continued to publish his long-read column, now titled Football Morning in America and it appears on ProFootballTalk.

In February 2024, King announced his retirement. He spoke of looking forward excitedly to what retirement would bring citing his family's history of not choosing to retire from their respective chosen professions. When thinking of career highlights during his broadcasting career he referenced John Lynch in his first year as general manager for the San Francisco 49ers talking to team negotiator Paraag Marathe, saying, "See if we can get one last thing with Chicago (the Chicago Bears)." Marathe managed to get Chicago to add a third-round pick sweetening the deal. The Bears traded four picks (the No. 3 overall pick, a third-round pick (67th overall) and a fourth-round pick (111th overall) in the 2017 draft plus a third-round pick in the 2018 draft to the 49ers so they could move up a spot and select North Carolina quarterback Mitchell Trubisky with the No. 2 overall pick. [6]

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 Sunday afternoon games and the primetime Sunday Night Football . He along with Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth, Sterling Sharpe, and Jerome Bettis served as special "insider" reporters and analysts for the show, highlighting major topics for the 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. King 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 was often on ESPN's Golic and Wingo (2017 to 2020).

Once a week during football season, he joins the Musers on Dallas' KTCK-AM/KTCK-FM for a segment. King is an often-used place holder for important and often vital Ticket audio segments as evidenced by the frequent cue given by Ticket Host Junior Miller of “Mark and play for Peter King”.

Other work

In 2005, the governor of New Jersey appointed King to a fact-finding task force in an attempt to end steroid and human growth hormone use in high-school athletics. [7] 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 for his work in professional football.

Personal life

King graduated from Enfield High School in Enfield, Connecticut in 1975. He was a three sports star at Enfield playing soccer, basketball, and baseball. [8] [9] He received his degree from Ohio University's E. W. Scripps School of Journalism in Athens. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife Ann, who is a native of the Pittsburgh area. [10] [11] They have two daughters.

In 1997, King was inducted into the Enfield Athletic Hall of Fame. [12]

References

  1. ↑ "National Sports Media Association - National Awards" . Retrieved March 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ King, Peter (February 13, 2006). "Why Carson finally made it". Sports Illustrated . Archived from the original on March 1, 2006. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
  3. ↑ Ben Grossman (April 27, 2006). "King suits up for Football Night". Broadcasting & Cable.
  4. ↑ "End of an Era: Peter King to Leave Sports Illustrated After 29 Years". SI.com. May 3, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
  5. ↑ Pallotta, Frank (May 3, 2018). "Longtime NFL columnist Peter King Leaves Sports Illustrated for NBC Sports". CNNMoney. Archived from the original on July 15, 2024. Retrieved September 20, 2025.
  6. ↑ King, Peter (February 26, 2024). "FMIA: It's Time. Who's Complaining? Not Me". NBC Sports. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  7. ↑ "N.J. prep athletes to face random steroid testing". ESPN.com. Associated Press. December 20, 2005. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
  8. ↑ Jensen, Tim (May 31, 2016). "Pair of Enfield Hall of Famers to Be Honored at Cynopsis Sports Business Summit". Patch.com: Enfield, CT. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Peter King ...in his own words". PovichCenter.org: Still No Cheering in the Press Box. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  10. ↑ King, Peter (November 7, 2011). "Super deja vu for Manning, Giants in clutch win over Patriots". Monday Morning QB. SI.com. p. 3. Archived from the original on November 9, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
  11. ↑ Smizik, Bob (February 8, 2012). "About that Hall of Fame voting". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Bob Smizik's Blog. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  12. ↑ "Enfield Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 1997". enfieldathletichof.org. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
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