Philadelphia Sports Talk Radio is on a Terrible Path

JP Crawford scores on an inside the park homer this Summer. Photo by Richard Wilkins Jr.

The Phillies just won their second straight game over baseball's best team last night behind Rhys Hoskins and J.P. Crawford. The Sixers are about to start training camp with two #1 overall picks making their debuts with Joel Embiid. The Flyers Nolan Patrick, the #2 overall pick in this year's draft, is in his first training camp with the team. What is WIP talking about?

The Eagles. The 1-1 Eagles. Did Carson Wentz play good or bad on Sunday in the loss. Did I mention the Eagles? Is it time for the Eagles to wear black for a home game yet?

If you listen to talk radio in Philadelphia, you might think the only sport played in Philadelphia is football. While there are exciting things happening with all four teams, only one gets any air time on WIP or 97.5. It's just a loop of talk about the last Eagles game, Carson Wentz, and the next Eagles game. Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited about the future of Carson Wentz too, but not to this level. Not to the level of ignoring the historic start by Rhys Hoskins. Not to the level of ignoring the Hakeem Olajuwon clone playing center for the Sixers. Not to the level of ignoring a #2 overall pick starting his career for the Flyers.

The NFL is actually in a decline right now across the country for a variety of reasons (bad labor practices, over saturation, the national anthem stuff, head injuries, racism, etc.), but apparently it's not in decline among the Philadelphia talk radio listeners, right? I at least have to assume they have data that shows them talking Eagles 22 hours out of 24 in a day is good business for them. The problem is that I don't see this being a sustained success for them. Younger people already think the talk radio format can be silly, and now you're talking about what they are moving away from?

Bad move bro.