Whitlock Takes on SJ Icon Peter King

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

 

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...

 

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?

 

Nothing wrong with that column.

 

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."

 

Are all well-known journalists whiny bitches?

 

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.

 

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