Letters 2026
5 June 2026
Subject: Obnoxious sports announcers
I saw a letter from 2025 that compared today's sports announcers/play by play guys to the Muppets. It couldn't have been a better comparison.
Which brings me to the oh-so-annoying antics of the local NHL team's (Oilers) announcer. He reminds me of a little kid who scores on his friend with his screaming, 'XYZ, coming down the left side....SCCCCCOOOOORRRRRRRREEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!'. It is so awful I can't stand him and that's part of why I refuse to listen to hockey on the radio, don't give a damn about who wins the Stanley Cup, and don't want sports packages on TV but am stuck with them.
This fool's announcements still pop up even when a game's not on, to promote the team. Every time I hear that awful sound I think of this clown in the broadcast booth, and when someone scores, imagine him ripping open his dress shirt to reveal his Oilers jersey underneath and waving those stupid team flags you see so many people with.
I know my views often get me in trouble with diehard hockey fans (who I am often surrounded by), and I have been branded a 'traitor' for not getting behind the local NHL team. But I don't care. I just wish some of these people would leave me out of their antics. If they want to devote their life to a professional hockey team that's their right, but don't drag me into it and then brand me a traitor when I don't.
Anon, Canada
4 June 2026
Subject: The World Cup
Sad for you Americans who have to host this mind numbing pile of puke for six weeks and even sadder in England, where football is the so called national game, and our media are working themselves into an orgasmic frenzy about how they love the World Cup and how everyone should get behind England. No thanks, I'd rather stick my head in a pit bull's mouth than sit through the World Bore. Sad to say as this tournament has 48 teams this time, it will be shown every day on the television and the football bores will be ecstatic. Hey, did you reckon Argentina's penalty in the 95th minute should have been allowed? No, mate, I'm not Argentinian and I don't care. Always a good way to kill off a football bore's attempt at a conversation.
Actually, the only good thing about this being held in June and July, the weather is often good during the World Bore. Time to get out in the sun, get a tan and meet up with the refuseniks who are out walking their dogs and are usually better to talk to. A discussion on black Labradors is generally more fun than the Argentine penalty. Also I am scanning through the streaming services and Youtube and a boxed set of Ultimate Force (British series about special forces soldiers) looks like a good thing to watch as there will be jack on regular television.
Another thing: England hasn't won for 60 years, will probably crash out early and the braindead fans will have a collective breakdown for a couple of days. Glad to say I will be watching boxsets or out walking when this happens.
AN ENGLISHMAN.
2 April 2026
Subject: Pro Sports are nonsensical.
I feel like I am some kind of alien given the fact that I don't watch or care anything about sports. In fact, I would even go so far as to say that the pro sports industry is evil. I have several reasons for this view. Firstly, I am of the opinion that money should only be given to people that work for a living. I will never consider chasing a ball for a living to be work. Neither is acting in films, playing a musical instrument, or playing video games and uploading them onto YouTube. Those things are recreational activities (not work), and in my view, they shouldn't be paid. And they certainly shouldn't be paid more money than people who actually do work. Secondly, I think the pro sports industry, along with the entertainment industry, causes severe wealth inequality. We live on a finite planet with a finite amount of resources (including money). When you have individuals who are making millions and billions of dollars, that is inevitably going to cause many people to not have enough money for their basic necessities. Thirdly, I think pro sports and other industries make humans prioritize entertainment over making sure that all of us have our basic necessities (housing, food, water) so that we can live comfortably. Realistically, how is it moral that sports stadiums continue to be built while millions of people don't have housing? Instead of building those stadiums, we should be building apartments and houses so that we could hopefully relieve some of the homelessness problem. I will go even further and say that I think existing sports stadiums should either be converted to apartments or demolished and have apartments and houses in their place. Again, are we really suggesting that the entertainment people might get from watching and playing sports is somehow more important than making sure our fellow man has a roof over their head? Lastly, I think pro sports are bad because they give a false and naive view of the concept of talent. In my view, the idea that someone can be talented at kicking a ball, throwing a ball, or hitting a ball is nonsensical. I am confident that probably 90% of physically and mentally abled individuals on the planet can kick, throw, or hit a ball; I can assure you that it's not that difficult.
Thank you for letting me post on your Sportssuck website. I sure enjoy reading all the letters that people have written.
Josh
16 March 2026
Subject: MORNING JOE
For some reason I watch Morning Joe every weekday morning. I probably shouldn't since they often say an issue is coming up next, and one doesn't appear till an hour away. But most annoying is that between the serious world news, all their male anchors get absolutely girlish and giddy about sports, treating the most mundane games with the same passion as bombings in Iran. One wonders how they cannot see how absurdly enthusiastic they are about some stupid competition between overpaid competitors in garish costumes. But today was especially annoying, as some baseball player, possibly with the Red Sox, exceeded their expectations of brilliant fielding or catching or some other useless skill. This sent these guys into a frenzy of praise calling him the greatest player and eventually The Greatest Living American. Call me negative, but if asked who I consider the greatest living American, I don't think I would name someone because they made a good showing in a two-hour kids game.
Allan
