Week 1 Reading Post: Part 2

The early part of this week I read Monday Morning Quarterback for 5 hours and 54 minutes.

In the book, Peter King selects his favorite articles from his column "Monday Morning Quarterback". He also throws in some stories, quotes, and facts that "may only interest me".

Here are my Best of the Midwest from Peter King:

• Detroit vice chairman Bill Ford Jr.-" One of the great things about being in Paris is nobody knows about the Lions".
• At the Minnesota State Fair in 2002, 36 food items were sold on a stick, such as:

1. Deep-fried Snickers Bar on a stick.
2. Walleye on a stick.
3. Deep-fried macaroni and cheese on a stick.
4. Pork chop on a stick.
5. Footlong corndog on a stick.

-If I were the fair operators, I would have one other delicacy available: Deep-fried Tums on a stick.

• In the summer of 2007 I was asked to sign the bright yellow car of a Packers fan in the Lambeau Field parking lot. Seems the fellow, From St. Louis, parks near the walkway the players use going to and from practice, and he gets them to sign along the way. I have to say it's the first time I've ever defaced a car, and certainly the first time ever when asked to do so by a Lite-drinking Green Bay fan.

Totals: 10 hours and 7 minutes/ 476 pages