Longtime NFL writer Peter King announced his retirement on Monday in his Football Morning in America column.
King is perhaps best known for his nearly three decade tenure at Sports Illustrated, which spanned from 1989 to 2018. In 1997, King began penning a weekly long-form NFL column titled Monday Morning Quarterback, which provided analysis from the previous day’s games. Prior to joining SI, King started his journalism career working for The Cincinnati Enquirer from 1980 to 1985, and Newsday from 1985 to 1989.
Since 2018, King has worked full-time for NBC writing under the Pro Football Talk banner; though his relationship with the network began in 2006 when NBC regained NFL rights and created its Sunday night studio show Football Night in America. King joined the original cast of Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth, Sterling Sharpe and Jerome Bettis as an NFL insider, reporting scoops from action earlier in the day.
Some of King’s other notable television duties include working for ABC’s Monday Night Football as a halftime reporter, CNN as an NFL reporter, and HBO as managing editor and reporter for Inside the NFL, which won three Emmy’s during his tenure.
Though his television career is wide-ranging, and has recently come to include more punditry like his weekly appearances on Mike Florio‘s PFT Live, King’s writing career will go down as one of the most prolific in NFL history. In addition to his popular columns, King has authored five books about the NFL. He has also won the National Sports Media Association’s Sportswriter of the Year three times in an award voted on by his peers.
In true Peter King fashion, Monday’s Football Morning in America column where he announces his retirement clocks in at over 12,000 words.
