The 'Dean of NFL Beat Writers' Has Some Advice for Young Sports Journalists

Bob McGinn kicks off a potent new The MMQB feature

“The Exit Interview” promises to focus on people who have left the game of football. And to start things off, The MMQB’s Peter King could not have picked a more timely and informed candidate than Bob McGinn, who retired from the Packers beat in May.

For 38 years, the sportswriter covered the Green Bay franchise for several different Wisconsin newspapers. McGinn, 65, starts off by comically noting that as he aged away from his full-time 1984 debut, it became harder and harder for people to yell at him.

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