Peter King (sportswriter)

Peter King (born June 10, 1957 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American sportswriter. He is the author of five books, most notably Inside the Helmet, as well as a TV analyst and reporter. He was named National Sportswriter of the Year for 2010.

Since 1992 King has been a member of the Board of Selectors for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Since 2006, he has been a part of Football Night in America, NBC's Sunday night NFL studio show.

Television

He also joined the HBO show Inside the NFL in 2002 as a managing editor and reporter. With the return of NFL programming to NBC at the start of the 2006 season, NBC started a new studio show called Football Night in America, set between the end of the Sunday afternoon games, and the primetime Sunday Night Football. King joined the original lineup of Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth, Sterling Sharpe and Jerome Bettis, serving as a special "insider" reporter and analyst for the show, typically highlighting one or two major topics from that day in football.

Radio

During the 2008 offseason, he became co-host of The Opening Drive on Sirius NFL Radio. During the season, he co-hosts the show on Wednesday mornings with Randy Cross and during the offseason he co-hosts on Monday & Wednesday with Randy Cross and Bob Papa. The show is available on SIRIUS and XM Radio on channel 124.

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