Whitlock Takes on SJ Icon Peter King

[Boom_70]

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/Jason-Whitlock-says-Pro-Football-Hall-of-Fame-selection-process-still-needs-reform-021511

 

[Inky_Wretch]

This again proves the need for a "Running Whitlock Feud" thread.

 

[TigerVols]

This again proves the need for a "Running Whitlock Feud" thread.

Has "running" and "Whitlock" ever appeared in the same sentence before?

 

[slappy4428]

This again proves the need for a "Running Whitlock Feud" thread.

Has "running" and "Whitlock" ever appeared in the same sentence before?

Hmmm. I can attest that I have witnessed him play basketball before, so I guess that's running...

 

[spnited]

I would think "lumbering" would be miore like it.

And while I agree that the Pro Football HOF selection process is like a secret cabal, the minute Whitlock pulled the race card -- as he usually does -- I stopped reading.

 

[YGBFKM]

I would think "lumbering" would be miore like it.

And while I agree that the Pro Football HOF selection process is like a secret cabal, the minute Whitlock pulled the race card -- as he usually does -- I stopped reading.

Is Richard Dent white?

 

[Guy_Incognito]

Nothing wrong with that column.

 

[Boom_70]

Loved that Whitlock obviously got under Kings skin. Thought this was a pretty good stuff here:

"Nope. Sports Illustrated’s Peter The King and The Dallas Morning News’ Rick Gosselin are the Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell of the HOF selection process. In his weekly Monday Morning Quarterback column, King rose from his throne and offered his defense of the fiefdom he and Gosselin oversee.

A Palin-like populist, King nailed himself to a cross (insinuating that I called him racist), pretended that the ethics of journalists are somehow superior to those of athletes and coaches, suggested my passionate support for Willie Roaf was a byproduct of “regionalism” and acted like it was ridiculous to think any back-room deals could influence the selection process.

I’m not doing his column justice. Read it yourself here.

After I read his column, I was left to believe one of three things about King: 1) He’s naive and simpleminded; 2) He never learned a single journalistic principle at Ohio University; 3) Money and fame caused him to abandon what few journalistic principles he ever had."

 

[YGBFKM]

Are all well-known journalists whiny *******?

 

[LongTimeListener]

Are all well-known journalists whiny *******?

It's theoretically possible that one isn't, though no such evidence exists.

 

[YGBFKM]

Are all well-known journalists whiny *******?

It's theoretically possible that one isn't, though no such evidence exists.

In all seriousness, do any of these guys filling column inches with feud after feud really think the readers care? I know a lot of people around here do, but it seems a disservice to bother the average reader with this petty crap.

 

[HanSenSE]

Whitlock vs. King ... next on MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch.

 

[dooley_womack1]

By this time next year, Whitlock will have only some prep blogger from the Podunk Times left to feud with

 

[BYH]

What is...a war with no winner?

 

[cyclingwriter]

Bet King is pissed he dropped all that weight. He is definitely at a size disadvantage now.

 

[Drip]

Bet King is pissed he dropped all that weight. He is definitely at a size disadvantage now.

Still, Black Fat Boy Journalist vs. White Fat Boy Journalist. No one wins.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Gosselin knows the NFL like Whitlock knows KC-area BBQ joints.

 

[Boom_70]

By this time next year, Whitlock will have only some prep blogger from the Podunk Times left to feud with

Who else is he feuding with? I've only noticed his current dustups with King and Len Pasquarelli - both over same issue.

 

[LongTimeListener]

By this time next year, Whitlock will have only some prep blogger from the Podunk Times left to feud with

Who else is he feuding with? I've only noticed his current dustups with King and Len Pasquarelli - both over same issue.

Jones of course, although that one wasn't really Whitlock's doing. He also has something ongoing with Richard Deitsch, over the weekend he slapped at Howard Stern and Dan Steinberg ... anyone else?

 

[secretariat]

It'd be nice if he got in a slapfight with Doyel.