Nothing Like a Snap Judgment

What do you think football columnist Peter King would think if he read a column by an entertainment writer saying a football player should find something else to do for a career after just one game? I imagine King would be ready with a response centering around how you can't judge someone that soon, and you have to give the player a chance to get comfortable, to develop.

I am wondering about this after reading King's Monday Morning Quarterback column, where despite there only being one episode, he is all ready to write off Amy Poehler and her new show Parks & Recreation. King writes, under the non-football thoughts section, "Keep your Saturday night job, Amy Poehler."

First, not exactly the most clever phrase I have heard of, especially considering Poehler can't keep a job she no longer has. If anything, it should read, "Go back to your Saturday night job."

But second, and more on point here, it was one show. Cheers was the worst rated show on TV after one episode. Seinfeld was a failure early on. King loves The Office, a show that had it not been for Steve Carell's movie success, likley would not have survived very long. Could you wait maybe a few episodes, possibly give it a chance, before you use your national football column to take a shot at it?