Listen closely enough and you can almost hear an episode of "Blue Bloods" streaming somewhere in Peter King's home office in Seaford. On the phone as in person, the former congressman is a fast-talker, and voluble, so it's hard to know if that's NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan — Tom Selleck — somewhere in the background. Without prompting, King confirms that (yes) "Blue Bloods" is on his TV (just not sure if that's the commish, though).

For the world's biggest "Blue Bloods" fan, this show has been his own chicken soup for the soul. Gone since last December , there will always be the repeats — 14 seasons worth — which play over and over like Muzak in his office. King has lost count how many times he has seen (or heard) each episode.

Excessive perhaps but "excess" is what true fandom is a

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