Here’s Coby Fleener, the erudite 2nd round draft pick of the Indianapolis Colts writing about the NFL dean of sportswriting, Peter King:

He told his interpreter, whom he estimated to be about 4-foot-8 and 80 pounds, that they could not take “no” for an answer. Apparently inspired by King’s willingness to continue even in the presence of the machine guns, King says she began “screaming at these guys, ‘I have the most important reporter in the United States and he demands to see this guy right away!’” King stood in amazement as the man they were looking for came out for an interview shortly after. He never found out if his interpreter got her green card, but he got his story.

A very strong effort from Fleener. If I haven’t mentioned it, I’m depressed thinking about the Luck-to-Fleener connection for the next decade. Yes, I think it could be more demoralizing than all the times I watched Manning connect with Dallas Clark. As a Jets fan, I’ve probably got just one more year of “Sanchez to Keller.” Sigh. That’s not even close to as imposing as “O’Brien to Shuler” was in the 80s.  [Peninsula Press]