KSK reader Ben Muschel sent us this gem to us today. Apparently, Drew’s old friend is playing a little fast and loose with recent history. In a display of investigative journalism rarely never seen on KSK, Mr. Muschel debunks King’s retcon of his appreciation of the 2006 Colts. (Up until now, it was still fully bunked.)
Rather than try to justice to Ben’s words by paraphrasing, here is his email in toto:
Gentlemen,
I know the weekly PK fisking (or is it fisting? I forget) has passed already, but I had to send you this screed I just sent to my friends (and to Peter himself, actually.) I don’t know if I’m making too big a deal of this, but I find this item lazy, and trying to take advantage of a readership he’s not counting on to remember basic things that happened three years ago. From yesterday’s MMQB:
It’s going to be a wide-open January. At this point of each of the past six years, we thought we knew the best team in the game as the regular-season drew to a close. It looked like New England in 2003 and ’04, the Colts in ’05 and ’06, perfect New England the next year, and Pittsburgh or Tennessee last year.
I’ll concede 2003 and 2004 Pats, definitely the Colts in 05, Pats in 07, and the Titans/Steelers last year. But the 2006 Colts? Really? We thought we knew they were the best team in the game? The same Colts that were the 3rd seed that year in the playoffs and going into January were widely considered to be the “worst” Colts team of the last 4 years to that point? Let’s ask someone who was around in 2006. Like, say, Peter King. He writes today, “At this point of each of the last six years…” This point is after Week 16, after 15 games… for context, let’s take a look back after 2006 Week 15, then 16, using PK’s “Fine Fifteen.”
After Week 15: 6. Indianapolis (10-3). Last week I had Cincinnati 7 and Indy 5. And I’m picking Cincinnati to win tonight in Indy. So I’m thinking: How can I have Indy ahead of the Bengals if I don’t think the Colts are going to beat the Bengals at the RCA Dome?
So after 13 games (Indy played their 14th that night), PK thought they were the 6th best team. Not exactly a vote of confidence. By the way, final score of that game? Colts 34, Bengals 16
After Week 16: 7. Indianapolis (11-4). The Colts’ defense will doom them. The Texans, of all people, the league’s 28th-rated offense entering play Sunday, had the ball seven times. The seven drives: 10 plays, 9, 5, 14, 8, 15, and 6. That’s 77 plays, seven drives. Imagine a team averaging 11 plays per drive.
We’ve reached “this point we thought we knew the best team in the game.” PK was writing the same thing everyone else was: the Colts’ defense would doom them. So three years later he’s telling me “we all knew” they were the best in the NFL, when he had them 7th? His top 6, by the way: San Diego (lost in 2nd round to NE), Baltimore (lost in 2nd round to Indy), New Orleans (lost NFC Conf. Champ to Bears), New England (lost AFC Conf. Champ to Indy), Chicago, (lost Super Bowl to Indy), and Dallas (“Romo will hold…”).
For what it’s worth, he had them #7 after the end of the regular season, too.
Then again, what should I expect from someone who thinks the Patriots’ third Super Bowl this decade was against Carolina. (It was Philly. You’re entitled to mistakes, but get Super Bowls straight.)
Ben Muschel
New York, NY
Again, great work. Now the rest of you be more like Ben and write something good and send it to us to use for free.
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This is a silly argument though:
so the guy you thought was a glib sycophantic dumbass actually proved he was a dumbass…big deal. PK’s articles are funny because he writes like President Bush talks, not because his opinion is important. We like to think we’re superior to him and therefore more deserving of his sweetass job.
Now, please bring on more tits and STFU.
In 2006 I saw PK stay at a Courtyard Marriott and comment that he thought there’s actually no reason the coffee should be put out before 5AM.
PK is a bread crumb encased larded mass of hot dog factory effluent.
You’re doing the Lord’s work Ben. Keep it up.
And PK is a fat tub of scrapple infused, diarrhea laden cellulite.
I’m pretty sure Old Pete admitted that he doesn’t bother watching these National Football League football games, with footballs players playing football.
In the National Football League…if he doesn’t watch the games, and he knows it, then he’s just pumping out Rona Barrett gossipy little meaningless puffery.
He’s a Pufferist, of the National Football League, with Commissioner Goodell running it.
still fully bunked? Sheeeeeeeeeee-it.
All of you are forgetting the true terror of an upcoming PK column – given the new (and ridiculous) air travel security checks just put into place, the next flight he takes he’ll be moaning about the unGodly unfairness of it all until at least 2011. Just watch – it’ll happen, most likely in two days.
…and yo momma
that’s the rules of the game youngsta
fukk all this peter king demigod (the other half being full of twinkies) worship
that fat fortuitous floptacular (yes even though he’s on TV) douche is just another example of 95-100 family size bag’s of cheetos keepin’ a man down.
When someone tells Peter King to FACT CHECK he thinks they are saying FAT CHECK and just says yup.
How can you not even research your own frickin’ statements???
I guess it IS hard to type with Farves’ and Bradys’ balls in your pie hole though…
He can fit so many nuts in that mouth he’d make a squirrel jealous.
This doesn’t suprise me one bit. The guy’s a fucking idiot. The fact he picked the 07 Pats as the team, and then justifies it by saying they were the best team from the beginning to the end of the season confirms it. I guess the season doesn’t end with the Super Bowl.
yea, i noticed that when i read it too. I distinctly remembered that SD was a juggernaut that went 14-2 that year and was picked by most to play in the SB. but they couldnt get past NE as McRee intercepted Brady late in the game but instead of going down kept running and troy brown stripped the ball from him. the colts were, as PK himself ranked them, not even one of the top 5 teams that year. i dont blame PK for not fact checking though, but more for trying too hard to make a point that wasnt there to begin with. not including 2007 and the pats, i feel like every year you’ll have plenty of arguments over who the best team is.
@HowlingFantod
Yes. Yes. Yes. Also, his use of rhetoric is just unbelievably lazy. To him it’s the question that is interesting, not the answer. No, the answer requires a little bit of digging, so maybe he’ll ask the question in a way that makes you assume a position on the answer. Then, instead of having to research a bit, we can telepathically understand each other, regardless of how you answered the question.
Basically, I want his job.
And “they” say that Bloggers sitting at home in their underwear in front of the computer can’t contribute as well as these “professionals”……..Fuck them in the neck.
There’s also this little gem right in there:
The seven drives: 10 plays, 9, 5, 14, 8, 15, and 6. That’s 77 plays, seven drives. Imagine a team averaging 11 plays per drive.
That is, of course, 67 plays, not 77. Peter really is “imagining” a team averaging 11 plays per drive; that average is about 9.4.
@Monkey Business: 14 parts fat – 1 part hump
I would hate PK a lot less if his column wasn’t full of factual errors, baseless predictions, inane analysis, and namedropping, both of the celebrity and personal variety…so basically if he stopped writing he’d be cool in my book.
Well, you see, Peter King is like a Maybach and KSK is like a Daewoo Lanos…
/Monkey Business’d
@westilllikeplaxico: I go the opposite way. I feel a little bad for PK when Drew rips on him for writing shit that you and I think is utterly banal and stupid, but that some audience somewhere probably enjoys. However, it’s when he fucks up basic factual issues that he really grates on me, because this is how his fatass pays for all those goddamned Kit-Kats. When I’m grading papers, I’ll gladly let errors like that go. I remember what it was like to be 20, I remember watching the sun come up while scribbling out a paper due in four hours while trying to pull vague remembrances and long-forgotten research from the alcohol-and-marijuana-fueled haze clouding my head. So If you fuck up a few little details here and there? No biggie! Your pothead TA’s got your back, son! I’ll just leave a little note in the margins, remind you to double-check your shit, and send you on your way!
The only difference between my undergrads and Peter King is that PK GETS PAID SHITLOADS OF FUCKING MONEY, and it’d be super-cool if he could take a break from inspecting every coffeeshop in the greater Boston area and write something remotely accurate. And God fucking help me if a middle-aged professional writer still waits until just before deadline to pump out that tripe. I realize that we as a country have long since given up on striving toward anything resembling excellence in damn near everything we produce. Whatever. But can’t we at least still call people out when they can’t even do basic shit right? Like when somebody getting paid lots of money to produce content for widespread consumption and consistently fucks up simple shit like “bothering to read his own notes,” or “bothering to Google basic details,” hell fucking yes he deserves to be nailed to the fucking wall. EVERY. FUCKING. TIME, as Jaws would say.
PK didn’t have time to fact-check, he was too busy respecting the sun and ordering the most espresso EVER.
Maybe PK should focus more on quality and less on quantity.
Joe:
you’re
You suck at grammar as well.
No, Fluby posts Ben’s work…
I agree that he could be off on remembering that the Colts were a clear cut winner going into Janurary in 06……but getting the wrong super bowl winner, is not acceptable.
Damn – Flubby still posts here? Slap my ass with a hickory switch and call me Cousin Herschel, I thought he was dead!
God, I hope Fat Humps is the official tag for the Colts.
I hate you, Monkey Business!
My research shows that it wasn’t actually melted kit kats but PK shat himself on a plane again
@westilllikeplaxico
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not, but you c’mon…maybe rather than rush to shit out (like so many jalapeno poppers) a 5,000 word story as early as possible on Monday morning, PK should take a little extra time to double-check his baseless assertions. or here’s an even wackier idea — maybe don’t make the goddamn thing 5,000 words long in the first place.
Unless SafetyDan is short for SafetyDanielle, no, no photos for Sexy Friday.
Well MY research shows that Brett Favre isn’t really a Land Baron, but he does own slaves.
As a writer, in this case, give the guy a break. He’s writing a 5,000 word story Saturday night and late Sunday. It’s an off-hand comment, something he’s probably writing off memory (You expect him to remember exactly where he placed Indy three years ago, when he’s written a million words since then?) while stuffing his face with jalapeno poppers at the Marriott Marquis. It’s not like he’s got a team of editors and fact checkers (like he does with his mag stuff). Make fun of him for his nonsensical riffs on pop culture and his man love of all things quarterback, but c’mon…
Oh, KSK, I think you just opened the gates of Hell. Have fun wading through the ensuing flood.
The Colts are professional athletes. Colts fans are Fat Humps.
Is “Fat Humps” the official Colts tag now?
*winner* even.
I can’t wait for this time next year, when PK says that we all knew after Week 16 that (insert winnter of this year’s Super Bowl) was the best team in the NFL.
If I send in some photos will you consider them for Sexy Friday? We could do reader driven SFs or something.
Ben,
Never do something your good at for free.
Joe
PS-I suck at giving advice.
Just more evidence that Peter King is the Queen of the Douches.