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Today is national bowling day.
Stooge
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My 2 favorite bowlers I loved to watch were Earl Anthony & Mark Roth.
Do you bowl or have a favorite bowler?
Later, Paul.
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Stooge
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Later, Paul.
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Been 3 or four years but I have always enjoyed bowling. Lived not far from Arnie Goldman (my brother was friends with him.) look him up.
Bowled in a league a few years as a kid. Went again this summer for the first time in 30 years and was terrible.
But I always enjoyed watching it.
I bowled for almost 50 years (started at age 10). I always liked Patrick Allen as I am a lefty also. My wife and I attended the 2009 Tournament of Champions in Las Vegas which Allen won. I got to talk to him, got his auto, and the wife took our pic.
Earl is likely the best of all time and a lefty.
Mark Roth got me into bowling back in the late 70's. I played in a league recently. My highest series is a 672.
I find it odd that national bowling day is during one of bowling's slowest months. Our local Bowling alley is closed from memorial day weekend through labor day.
IT CAN'T BE A TRUE PLAYOFF UNLESS THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ARE INCLUDED
My bowling high game is 210, and I was in a zone that game - a "zone" for me anyway. LOL
I've had maybe 5 or 6 games in the 180's before and since, but never broke 190 again.
Bowling is certainly a lot of fun. Perhaps the only sports event where the more beer you drink during the game, the better ya get.
No doubt people have bowled 300 games while drunk. This holds true with golf as well. People have hit hole-in-one's while drunk. So its no surprise, most people don't consider Bowlers and Golfers, as athletes.
IT CAN'T BE A TRUE PLAYOFF UNLESS THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ARE INCLUDED
this is completely misguided. look no further than the man who is leading the PGA Championship going into the final round today. please take one look at Koepka and tell me he's not an athlete. i saw him up close a few months ago and the guy looks like he should be playing third base for some MLB team. (he was, in fact, a very good baseball player at one time.) another example is Gary Woodland -- another bomber at the top of the leaderboard who actually attended college on a basketball scholarship........but transferred to Kansas to play golf.
bigger, stronger and being supremely fit does not only apply to the major sports. if you are a sloth on the PGA Tour nowadays, you stand next to no chance. (Patrick Reed -- Masters winner -- is an exception, not the rule.)
Being ripped though is not a requirement.
Bowling's insane! Bowling is crazy time!
Mookie is a hell of a bowler! And a hell of an athlete!
Used to bowl duck pins and candlepins...eons ago.
For those who don't know, duck pins are a mini version of regular bowling. Candlepins are slender and tall (thus the name). The big difference is with candlepins, you bowl with the deadwood laying in the lane...occasionally made for some crazy hits.
They used to have candlepin bowling on Saturday's on Boston tv long ago. I doubt they broadcast that anymore.
And must have a hell of a lot of money.
I'm presuming that two lane alley is at his home. Even rich people who bowl and have a bowling alley at their home, I would guess usually only have one lane. LOL
In any event, I like the Flag and USA poster hanging on the left side of the alley. I just became a fan of Mookie.
I remember the candlepin bowling show from the late 70's or so. IIRC it was on station WSBK.
Used to bowl till some damage to the right elbow. Used to get some entertainment (?) watching Pete Weber and his antics on the lanes. Anyone remember the oldie bowling show "Make That Spare" from the 60's. Used to come on after the Friday night fights (time permitting).