In Peter King's most-recent Monday Morning Quarterback, he fires this gem off at Peyton Manning:"Jim Johnson died of melanoma. You're pretty fair-skinned. You take precautions against skin cancer?''Wait. WHAT?! We've worked as a sportswriter. We went to school to learn how to be a reporter. We learned all about open- and close-ended questions. We learned about nut grafs. We learned about how to report in crisis situations.
Nowhere, not once, did it mention asking some one who's perfectly healthy a completely off-the-wall question about somebody who recently died.
Drew at KSK responds nicely: “Hey Peyton, Derrick Thomas died in a car accident. Do you buckle your seat belt, or will you too end up a giant red pile of sinew on the side of the highway?”
All right, future sportswriters of America: to get a job at SI, ask somebody the strangest fucking question you can think of. And talk about your travel itinerary.
7 comments:
All white people are fair skinned, Pete.
I don't remember who asked it, but the guy who asked Doug Williams at the Super Bowl: "How long have you been a black quarterback?"
Lofty interview there. My God, King gets worse and worse by the day. LET ME COMPLAIN ABOUT MY TRAVEL SCHEDULE EVENTHOUGH IT'S ALL FREE!!!
"Hey, Peyton. You're a quarterback. Ever thought about slaughtering dogs?"
mike francesa is a DICK!
who'd listen to THAT BOZO?
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