When The MMQB launched in 2013, Peter King decided that Don Banks would write a weekly column named, “The Conscience.” It didn’t need much explanation for those who were regular readers of SI.com.
“He would consider both sides of a story,” King says, “and he would write not the expedient opinion, but the correct opinion.”
If there’s a way to describe Banks, it’s this: He was the voice of reason, both in his job and beyond it. Banks died early Sunday morning, at age 56; he was in Canton, Ohio for the NFL’s Hall of Fame ceremonies, doing the job he did so well for decades.