Crossing Broad
Happy New Year! By god, it’s the year of our lord 2026 and this time things are going to be different. SURE, you’ve said that to yourself every single January for the last two decades, but this time it’s for real!
Those dusty running shoes that have been sitting next to the front door for the last 12 months? We’re strapping them on and running around the block a few times before calling it quits. Can’t burn ourselves out this quickly. That pesky heart valve problem the quote/unquote “doctors” told you to fix or you may quote/unquote “die” a horrendous death? Bah, what do they know?! Unnecessary surgeries? THAT’S HOW THEY GET YOU. Hell, if you don’t go to doctor this year you’ll never know what’s wrong with you in the first place, therefore it can’t hurt you. EASY PEASY (for legal purposes I must stress this is a joke…go to the doctor you fucking idiots…or don’t I’m not your mom).
But those resolutions? Your personal health?! Those are small potatoes compared to the big picture that you can control this year. Philadelphia, it’s time we take a long, cold hard look at the way we indulge in sport. We’re no longer the sad sack sports town we once were, so goodness gracious it’s time we start acting like the big shots we are.
Let’s take a look at some easy fixes and things we should be thankful for in 2026 to make Philadelphia sports fans happier and more successful in the new year. .
A big one right off the bat. “Coggin,” you may be saying to yourself, “all you do all day, every day is complain about Philadelphia sports talk radio on social media.” You rascals, you got me dead to rights. Sure, there’s nothing I enjoy more than ripping apart the long-antiquated medium of sports talk radio and its hypocritical hosts that can’t go more than week without contradicting themselves or embarrassing the city. That’s just good old fashioned fun, right there.
But I ask of you… to what end? Will it stop people from listening? Will it stop every single host from incessantly complaining about the Philadelphia Eagles, despite winning two Super Bowls and 104 regular season games since 2017? These are results we could only dream about when Andy Reid was blowing three straight NFC championships and fumbling away the clock in his lone Eagles Super Bowl appearance.
Will my criticisms stop sports talk hosts from calling for the head of Jalen Hurts, a Super Bowl MVP, one of the most successful Philadelphia quarterbacks of all time, for the likes of Tanner McKee?
NO, no they won’t. The shit show that is sports talk radio will continue to churn out the drivel that fuels the dregs of fandom in this city, the kind of people you cringe at seeing out and about in public, wondering how they can exist on their own and have gone as...
