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Peter King is retiring

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Football Morning in America is up! And this one’s about the luckiest man on Earth. It’s been real. 🏈📝❤️ <a href="https://t.co/HE4hRJsPzY">https://t.co/HE4hRJsPzY</a></p>— Peter King (@peter_king) <a href="https://twitter.com/peter_king/status/1761987766718455940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

He clarifies in the article that he's not 100% disappearing, but he's no longer going to be working full time at least. Pretty crazy that he's been able to do this for like 40 years.

Survived the collapse of print media. Thats pretty amazing in of itself.

His health seems to have been an obstacle for him these past few years. Hope he enjoys retirement! I enjoyed his interviews over the years.

I hear him on Carrington on 610. King is always coughing. Hope to hear from him periodically.

I am just reading through his final column now… it’s a big loss.

I think he is great. Got so many contacts and stories and can show up anywhere and offer thoughtful takes.

Glad he is only semi retired and will still make occasional appearances.

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Originally Posted by cabletech94 (Post 17417801)

I hear him on Carrington on 610. King is always coughing. Hope to hear from him periodically.

He described his health situation in his column last week…

Link: https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profoo...mia?cid=fmiatw

Quote:

I have pneumonia. Many of you have sent along thoughts/remedies about my incessant cough over the past two months. As it turns out, it was about at its peak the weekend of the game. And when I had to climb four or five steep flights to the press box at Allegiant Stadium around noon Sunday, that basically cooked me.

A couple of writer friends, Sam Farmer and Nicki Jhabvala, saw me and had the presence of mind to tell the NFL’s VP of communications, Brian McCarthy, I was having trouble breathing. He sent two physicians for Medical Sports Group, a team of medics the league uses at the Super Bowl, Dr. Eric Ossman and Dr. Ricardo Martinez, to look at me. Good men. Calm and smart. They suggested we go into a nearby stairwell so I could be examined. Along came an EMT, Michael Campos from the Las Vegas Fire Department. Amazing what you can accomplish in a stairwell.

They took my vitals, and then I unbuttoned my shirt and Campos and an aide did an EKG. All were good, but they didn’t like the sound of my cough and said I should go to a hospital. I said I would—after I finished writing at 2:30 or so in the morning. So they gave me a breathing treatment (albuterol) to open my airways a bit, and they did it again at halftime. That’s how I experienced a muffled Usher—with a plastic breathing tube in my mouth.

Damn, that’s really sad to hear. The big P is nothing to casually dismiss. Get better King!!

Somewhere Florio is spinning this into that's what he meant when he kept saying Reid might retire.

I'm going to take heat for this, and that's fine. I found his writing over the last several years to be a tired schtick, and he overly relied on kitchy colloquialisms that were often annoying. I thought about starting a drinking game where I had to take a drink every time he wrote the word 'weird', but then I realized I'd be dead. Simply because someone's around for a long time doesn't make them a good writer (e.g. Rick Reilly- who also sucks). Sorry-not-sorry but 'Coffee nerdness', 'beer nerdness', 'Ten Things I Think I Think' and his dumb haikus will not be missed any more than Zippy the Pinhead comics.

Adios, annoying sports writer.

I really don't know what to make of Peter King.

I don't dislike him, just always seems to bland in his reporting.

I do think he is highly accurate when he sticks his neck out when he sources a breaking or rumored story.

Definite legend in the field.

One of the best, even if I didn’t agree with all of his takes.

Good. Now he can work at home depot as a paint mixer.

I thought the dude had hung them up years ago...