RIP Peter Finney

One of the true giants of of sports writing. Imagine a career that began before the end of World War II and lasted until 2014. You can be in this business for more than 100 years and never meet a better person. We were lucky to have him and also lucky that his son, Peter Jr., put together a best-of compilation of his best columns which was published earlier this year.

Peter Finney, the sports 'journalistic voice' of New Orleans, dies at 88

 

Peter Finney & Bob Roesler at the T-P were my inspiration for getting into the sports writing gig. I was living in N.O. and just spinning my wheels professionally, and I'd read their stuff and think, "man, that's something I'd like to do for a living." So I made it happen. Met Finney a few times at Saints games, and he was just as polite to a rookie reporter from Mississippi as he would have been to Dr. Z.

 

Peter was a wonderful colleague to hang with and a damn good writer. This is very sad news.

 

Class act. RIP.