Peter King offered to resign after false deflategate report, still ‘Totally ashamed’

[edjr 6,588]

 

ESPN’s Chris Mortensen still draws the ire of New England Patriots fans after his false report in January 2015 helped turn Deflategate into a national NFL scandal. Many forget, however, that Peter King confirmed Mortensen’s report, which stated that 11 of the Patriots’ 12 footballs in the 2014 AFC Championship Game had been more than two pounds per square inch below the league-mandated limit. King, who buried an apology deep inside one of his trademark Monday Morning Quarterback columns after the report had been proven false, has not forgotten. Speaking with The Athletic’s Richard Deitch on Deitch’s sports media podcast, the longtime NFL reporter said he remains “totally ashamed” of his Deflategate reporting, calling it and another erroneous report about the Ray Rice domestic violence case the two biggest mistakes he’s made in his 29-year career at Sports Illustrated. King, who announced earlier this week he will be leaving SI for a job at NBC, also revealed he offered to resign in the wake of his Deflategate mishap. “I got a significant fact in the Ray Rice story wrong when he visited the league office and had his hearing, and then I got a significant fact wrong when I confirmed Chris Mortensen’s story about the (Patriots’) footballs being more than two pounds under pressure,” King said on the podcast. “And in both cases, I admitted it. In one case — the Patriots case — I offered my resignation to Chris Stone, and they said no. But I would have resigned, because that is something that you cannot get wrong. “I got it wrong, and I deserve all the criticism for that that comes my way. I don’t shy away from it. And when I think of my career at SI, those are two things I’m ashamed of — totally ashamed — because that can’t happen. You can’t get facts like that wrong. Was I told something by someone who I trusted that turned out to be wrong? Yes. It’s not their fault. It’s my fault. No one cares why you got something wrong. I got it wrong. If the source that I talked to was wrong, it doesn’t matter. I got it wrong.” The Patriots were fined $1 million and lost two draft picks (a first-rounder in 2016 and a fourth in 2017) as a result of Deflategate, and quarterback Tom Brady was suspended for the first four games of the 2017 season.

 

 

 

https://nesn.com/2018/05/peter-king-offered-to-resign-after-false-deflategate-report-still-totally-ashamed/

 

 

As they say, it takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong. And as I say, it takes an even bigger man to have been right all along. Which I was. From Minute One I called bullshit on Deflategate. And I think the grand total of writers who can say that is me, Dave and Feitelberg. And that’s it. Everyone else to some extent bought into the lies from the most carefully orchestrated witch hunt of our times. And despite all the evidence to the contrary, there are still plenty of anti-science Deflategate Flat Earthers out there clinging to the falsehoods they gobbled down like so many Spaghetti-Os.

 

 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,430]

Lol.

[drobeski 3,061]

Ofcourse it was bullchit, about 3 weeks ago in was still adding air to my tires.

Now, not so much.

 

The biggest science cryers were the biggest science deniers...all driven by envy.

[MDC 7,425]

Remember when Tommy Pigtails dropped that pass but BDN caught his and then Tommy got strip sacked in crunch time to lose the game and ran off the field crying like a b1tch?

 

That was the best.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,430]

Did Peter King report on Brady and his cell phone? What a disgraceful homer he is. Shouid work for CNN

[Mungwater 597]

Im just glad peter king is off SI.

[Frozenbeernuts 2,264]

Deflate gate was an embarrassment to everyone involved trying to crucify the Patriots. What a sad excuse to try to stop them from winning more. To treat the most important team and player like that without actual evidence? Good to see people coming to their senses

[edjr 6,588]

Im just glad peter king is off SI.

 

now we can go back to not reading it

[TimmySmith 2,782]

They framed a guilty man.

[Mungwater 597]

 

now we can go back to not reading it

It was habit for me, as dumb as it sounds.

[DankNuggs 305]

Lost a first round draft pick over complete nonsense...

[Cdub100 3,908]

Cool

[Hardcore troubadour 15,430]

It's the sad dynasty. Imagine being one of the dregs of the NFL for years and years, nobody going to the games, basically ignored. Then you end up doing all this winning, having on paper the goat coach and QB, and it's not respected like the other dynasties. ''Tis a cruel fate"

[Frozenbeernuts 2,264]

It's the sad dynasty. Imagine being one of the dregs of the NFL for years and years, nobody going to the games, basically ignored. Then you end up doing all this winning, having on paper the goat coach and QB, and it's not respected like the other dynasties. ''Tis a cruel fate"

This what is so odd about the Patriots. The jealousy is disturbing and blatantly obvious

[Hardcore troubadour 15,430]

This what is so odd about the Patriots. The jealousy is disturbing and blatantly obvious

Who's Jealous? Cleveland?

[Frozenbeernuts 2,264]

Who's Jealous? Cleveland?

Non Patriot fans

[Hardcore troubadour 15,430]

Non Patriot fans

Why on earth would a Giants fan be jealous?

[drobeski 3,061]

Who's Jealous? Cleveland?

pretty much everyone

[MDC 7,425]

Im not jealous.

[drobeski 3,061]

Im not jealous.

temporary reprieve

:first: :first:

[MDC 7,425]

*****

[Frozenbeernuts 2,264]

Why on earth would a Giants fan be jealous?

Because no one thinks the Giants teams who won were all that special.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,430]

Because no one thinks the Giants teams who won were all that special.

Lol. Weak.

[drobeski 3,061]

Because no one thinks the Giants teams who won were all that special.

solid point, especially the latest ones. No different than the ravens really.

Good team good defense, got lucky. Certainly not great or dynasty material.

There's never been a rule change to slow down those teams. With the patriots there's been at least a dozen.

[Frozenbeernuts 2,264]

Lol. Weak.

It's the truth

 

I see it and hear it constantly in the way Gisnts fans respond. They dont like that people think their championships were more fluky than because they were that good. Hey, they won, they get credit for that. Giants fans should just be satisfied with the outcome, not the perception people have of those teams

[Hardcore troubadour 15,430]

It's the truth

 

I see it and hear it constantly in the way Gisnts fans respond. They dont like that people think their championships were more fluky than because they were that good. Hey, they won, they get credit for that. Giants fans should just be satisfied with the outcome, not the perception people have of those teams

I don't really care about perceptions. They were the best team in football from 2007-2011. Fact.

[drobeski 3,061]

I don't really care about perceptions. They were the best team in football from 2007-2011. Fact.

from ? Steelers saints and packers may have something to say about that.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,430]

from ?

Who was better those five years?

[drobeski 3,061]

Who was better those five years?

3 teams in 3 of those 5 years

[Hardcore troubadour 15,430]

from ? Steelers saints and packers may have something to say about that.

2 is better than one. Much better.

[DankNuggs 305]

Why on earth would a Giants fan be jealous?

Because you had to root for Eli Manning for a decade

 

 

:derp:

[Hardcore troubadour 15,430]

Because you had to root for Eli Manning for a decade

 

 

:derp:

Nope. Try again. Kids been nothing but class, and he's never been suspended.

[Frozenbeernuts 2,264]

I don't really care about perceptions. They were the best team in football from 2007-2011. Fact.

Sure you dont. Never mind your football posts being saturated with it.

[Kanil 520]

Hey, they won, they get credit for that. Giants Patriots fans should just be satisfied with the outcome, not the perception people have of those teams

[Hardcore troubadour 15,430]

Sure you dont. Never mind your football posts being saturated with it.

? Saturated with what? Talking trash? Isn't that the point of all this?

[TD Ryan2 316]

the real loser in this whole thing was Bill Nye, The Actor Playing A Science Guy... his complete failure to understand the ideal gas law... ouch!

 

Peter King... and even Mort just had bad sources that they trusted.

 

Bill Nye didn't understand science.