Sports Illustrated Monday Morning Quarterback: A fully caffeinated guide to everything you need to know about the NFL [Hardcover]

Peter King (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 13, 2009

More than two million people a week rush to SI.com to read Peter King's column, Monday Morning Quarterback. There they find a potent mix of analysis, opinion, humor and inside-the-NFL locker- room information delivered as no one else can. In this book, King, the award-winning Sports Illustrated pro football writer, brings the same blend of wit and wisdom, ranging from his famous "10 Things I Think I Think" to his Top 100 player rankings; from the football clichés he hates to the coaching hires he loves; from Brett Favre's golf game to Peyton Manning's comedic skills. And all freshly flavored with King's inimitable observations on the best hotels, the worst airports, the greatest traditions-and coffee, coffee, coffee. There is no journalist better connected to the NFL's players, coaches, general managers and owners, and no writer renders the inside information as entertainingly as Peter King.

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About the Author

Peter King joined Sports Illustrated as a staff writer in 1989 after spending nearly a decade as an award-winning newspaper journalist. Now a senior writer at the magazine, he is Sports Illustrated's primary NFL expert and is one of the country's premier pro football writers. King is also a key contributor to SI.com, which includes his popular column, "Monday Morning Quarterback."

King has also served as an on-air reporter for ABC's Monday Night Football, NBC's Football Night in America, CNN's NFL Preview, and as managing editor for HBO's award-winning "Inside the NFL'' show. He hosts a show on Sirius NFL Radio.

Following graduation from Ohio University in 1979, where he earned a B.A. in journalism, King covered college athletics and professional football for the Cincinnati Enquirer for five years. Following that stint, he covered pro football for Newsday, in New York, from 1985 to 1989.

King has won two Associated Press Sports Editors awards for excellence in sports journalism.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Sports Illustrated (October 13, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1603200800
• ISBN-13: 978-1603200806
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 8.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #594,112 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As Good As The First Time, Better In Fact, October 22, 2009

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Michael Norman "Writer and teacher" (Montclair, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sports Illustrated Monday Morning Quarterback: A fully caffeinated guide to everything you need to know about the NFL (Hardcover)

A confession: I know and admire Peter King. Another confession: I'm a professional writer, and when I want to read for pleasure, I either crack open another Elmore Leonard or, Mondays, at lunch, treat myself to Peter's MMQB. No one knows football like Peter King, and it's a treat to have some of his best columns collected in a book. If you haven't read him, I envy you the pleasure of encountering his voice for the first time -- expert yet unaffected, knowing yet curious, and funny, always funny, often laughing at himself with as much gusto as he pokes fun at some of the athletes in these pages. Reading some of these columns a second time gave me as much pleasure as reading them on line. Better in fact, because they seem more resonant on the printed page. Some of his most poignant work is here too. "Family Matters," his column on the death of James Dungy, Tony Dungy's son, still gives me pause, makes me reflect. Peter, of course, is writing about a lot more than football. He's a chronicler of American culture. Sometimes his lens is the game, sometimes the life of a player. Here too are riffs on coffee and airplane rides and -- how can I put this delicately -- even his colonic caper. He is us and we are him and the voice is both original and familiar. That's his great writer's secret. He writes as if he knows everyone who reads him. Hats off too to Sports Illustrated for producing a good looking and clever text with entertaining asides and catchy icons. And I really enjoyed the photo insert in the middle, especially the last page which shows my Giants and Michael Strahan swarming poor Tom Brady to create the famous 18-1. I know what I'm getting my sons, Ben and Josh -- Giants fanatics like their father -- for Christmas.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Peter King is Good People, October 17, 2009

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This review is from: Sports Illustrated Monday Morning Quarterback: A fully caffeinated guide to everything you need to know about the NFL (Hardcover)

or at least it would seem from his writing. I read him religiously on Monday's at lunchtime. This book is basically excerpts from his column with some added lists. If you like Peter King's column, you will like the book. I remembered some of the columns and some were new to me. New or not you still get the same thing - insight into the NFL on a much more personal level. All of us that follow the NFL wish to some extent we could be part of it, be part of the decisions, hang out with the players, question the coaches and GM's. Peter is able to do that and then tells the story. It's the closest most of us will get.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, Fast Paced, Moving, September 28, 2010

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cpt matt (tanktown, DE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sports Illustrated Monday Morning Quarterback: A Fully Caffeinated Guide to Everything You Need to Know About the NFL (Paperback)

This book is a collection of on line articles Sports Illustrated author Peter King wrote over the years. He has access to football players, coaches, staff and has a great touch in telling these stories.

This is not at all about the strategy of football or the business side. It's the people side, the smack talk, the respect players have for each other, the things coaches say when their guard is down. Peter even takes you into his personal life (he was told to include these in his articles) and I found his ability to tell the story of his daughter's championship softball game was amazing and really, really touching.

If you love football and want to see the insider's view, this is a great read. It's fast paced, funny - best read on an airplane, so everyone around you can wonder what in the world is so funny.