… a response to this little tidbit. Here is the inflammatory excerpt:

Interviewer: All right, that anticipates my follow up: are there any teams whose fans don’t think you hate them?

Peter King: The fans of the Houston Texans are not passionate. The fans of the Arizona Cardinals are not passionate. I mean, I came out here this morning, and all you see are people who are just NUTTY about the Redskins. They’re out of their minds. They’re crazy.

1. I think, Peter, that you are another hack national NFL writer who needs to stick to covering your favorite team – Brett Favre’s ass. It’s the only team you actually have a working knowledge of, and like all national NFL writers, you just make some garbage up about the rest of the league to fill out your weekly “Monday Morning List of Reasons I Want to Make Love to Brett Favre, and some other NFL filler.”

2. I think that if you don’t think Houston Texans fans are passionate, you should attend one of the training camp practices… you know, the ones that are at capacity and take place in the intense heat and humidity of Houston, Texas.

3. I think that our incredibly informed, incredibly PASSIONATE group of Texans bloggers could go a long way to changing your mind about how apparently apathetic we all are about our team. I mean, seriously, you billowing windbag – you wouldn’t believe how badly we want this team to succeed. Check out DGDB&D, Battle Red Blog, Stephanie Stradley, Texans Tailgate, among others. See if you find any passionate fans there.

4. I think you think Houston fans aren’t passionate because you never get death threats or hate mail from us. I wonder why that is? Could it be because you rarely find the space in your 8000-word columns for the Texans, but find plenty of room to discuss the comfortable texture of Brett Favre’s chest hair and your favorite coffee shops – while simultaneously relaying how the old lady in front of you can’t seem to order a latte and operate her cell phone at the same time?

5. I think, Peter, instead of taking totally unfounded shots at FANS – not the team, which you have access to, and can find real info about – but the FANS – you should think about who your readers are. Clearly, I’m one of those readers, and you’ve done an excellent job of alienating me.

6. I think that if and when you respond to the fervor this has caused amongst Texans fans, you’ll discount many of our responses as wretchedly personal attacks – but that’s exactly what you did. Telling fans they aren’t passionate without anything real to back it up is a personal attack, not an observation.

7. I think you could turn this into a positive. Do a little research by reading this site and other Texans sites. When you find out how wrong you are, you can do a regular feature on just how football-crazed we all are… you know, you can squeeze it in between “the weekly contents of Brett Favre’s dumpster” and “you won’t believe what this little kid said to his mother in line at the airport!”

8. I think that when you take a break from the NFL to talk about movies, it makes my eyes bleed. For the love of GOD, please stop foisting your brutal movie tastes on me. You don’t know Casablanca from Big Momma’s House.

9. I think that your family are all drug addicted racists who patrol neighborhood playgrounds trolling for children to steal and eat for dinner. Oh – you don’t like it when people make ridiculously unfounded, broad generalizations about a group of people? Me either.

10. I think you should take your face through a car wash after you pull it out of Brett Favre’s ass.

Coffeenerdness: There are tons of great coffee shops here in Austin, Texas. If Brett Favre’s ever in town and you follow him here – please take a moment to visit one of them, and dump a nice hot cup on your crotch. If you prefer iced coffee, choke on it.