Nate Burleson of NFL Network/CBS' The NFL Today, and John Feinstein on his relationship with Bob Knight

The Peter King Podcast

NBC Sports

Pro Football Talk, Football, Nbc, Nfl, Nbc Sports, The Mmqb, Peter King, Sports, Nfl Football, Pro Football, Football Morning In America

4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Burleson on being a teammate and sharing the receivers' room with Randy Moss in Minnesota, on how he morphed from being an NFL wideout to a broadcast career, on the best career advice he got from a Hall of Fame player, and on balancing a family with a professional career. Feinstein, the author of 40 books, on his most famous one: "Season on the Brink," following the volatile coach of the Indiana Hoosiers in the eighties, Knight, who did not like the book. "Season on the Brink" spent 16 weeks as the top-selling book on the New York Times bestseller list. I asked Feinstein: "What would happen if you and Knight passed each other on the street today?"

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, where I try to tell you a few things about football and
0:09.2	occasionally a couple of things about life. This week, a holiday edition of the podcast. a
0:13.4	holiday edition of the podcast.
0:15.4	I've got a really interesting conversation with Nate Burleson
0:19.6	of the NFL network and of CBS Sports.
0:23.4	And Nate is one of the rising stars in the business.
0:26.4	He is extremely opinionated and he's highly interesting.
0:30.6	He's got a great story of how he got into the media that you will want to hear whether
0:36.7	you care about Nate Burleson or not, really entertaining.
0:40.5	And also, I saved about the last 10 or 12 minutes from my conversation with John Feinstein,
0:48.3	the noted author of 40 books from earlier this month because one of the fascinating things that he talked
0:54.8	about was his relationship with Bobby Knight, the former Indiana coach, the
0:59.9	incendiary Indiana coach, and I thought it would be good to bring you those 10 or 12
1:06.3	minutes where he talks about the relationship he has had with Knight and I just found it really entertaining. I didn't want to stuff it into a long
1:16.4	podcast so I thought I would separate it and allow you to hear that this week.
1:21.0	So before we start off with Nate Burleson, I do want to talk about one
1:27.9	thing in the NFL right now that I think is such a good story and I'll tell you a little personal
1:33.8	story about Nick Foles. So Nick Foles after he won the Super Bowl last year
1:41.3	beating New England was the MVP of the game
1:44.0	Cinderella story the backup quarterback came in with Carson Wentz gets hurt
1:49.4	about 55 weeks ago and has a has a very very good post season you know the story
1:57.1	So Nick Falls writes a book and it's actually a very good book. I enjoyed it and there's a lot in there about overcoming the odds and fighting adversity and things like that. Nick's a very religious guy.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NBC Sports, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NBC Sports and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.