How to Reverse the Dangerous Curse of the Announcer!

I love sports. I love watching sports — even some sports that some sports fans don’t think are actually sports.

I love watching pro football — go Patriots! And even though the Pats lost in the recent Super Bowl (shocked, I was), I still love watching them and hoping for a 6th Super Bowl ring.

I love watching tennis — player against player. All the players out there, hitting their best shots with nowhere to hide from the bad ones that we all see — endlessly.

I’ve even enjoyed watching curling (in the Olympics), figure skating, downhill skiing, shot put, and pretty much anything that is a contest between people or teams.

But my first love is golf.

OK, yeah. I can hear you — I CAN HEAR YOU! Golf isn’t a sport, you say. Golf is just a “good walk spoiled,” you say. Golf? Really, Susan? You’re not serious.

Yup. And it is a sport (or at least a contest) among a whole bunch of men or women, all trying to win a seriously large amount of money. And then there’s the prestige of winning, especially a “major” championship, which can also translate into more seriously large amounts of money. It’s a real sport.

And as with any sport, there are announcers, those “talking heads” who feel compelled to talk over / under / through / around Every. Single. Play. No silence allowed. They need to earn their keep, I guess.