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Who knows. When you watch ESPN, FSN, etc., you see eating contests, poker tourneys, billiards, golf, and racing, you really start to question what humanity is coming to.
Still a topic on Rome's show??
this guy is beyond stale now...he's been beating this horse to death since 1995...we get it already... Soccer, bowling and bass fishing aren't sports.
He needs new script writers to come up with fresher stuff for him.
Who knows. When you watch ESPN, FSN, etc., you see eating contests, poker tourneys, billiards, golf, and racing, you really start to question what humanity is coming to.
I enjoy watching the Bowling on Sundays, usually because a buddy of mine is on.
BTW Wes Malott won his first PBA le on Sunday and shot a 299 in the process.
Its allways nice to see a guy who you grew up with win a national stop.
You guys know what should be a full blown sport, even though it is already on FSN...
English Pub Darts
Those guys are insane. They are drunk, and never miss, and they are like
YAYAYAYAYAYYAYA when they win. And they drink some more.
Bowling is a game.
Tennis is a sport.
Boxing is a sport.
Hold 'em is a game.
Golf is a game.
Basketball is the sport of the gods.
Do you see a trend here?
Like my man Huey Lewis always says...
"Compe ions that don't require physical fitness, but a certain degree of skill, tend to be games.
Compe ions that require physical fitness and athletic ability, well, tend to be sports."
Compe ive Bowling is a Got Damn Sport.
Recreational Bowling is not, its just for fun.
Keda, the best bowlers are always in the finals. See Mika, see Walter Ray, see, Duke, see Parker Bohn, see Mallot.
As for local tourneys, the best bowlers are usually right there as well. If you are talking about handicap , then of course, a one game roll off, I could beat anyone. I might carry a brooklyn or a head pin strike for a turkey and take a big lead. happens.
But bowl a marathon of at least 12 games in a day, a bracket finals and you must agree that bowling is physical, mental and compe ive.
As for Astro, you can't be more wrong. The Texas League Record was broken by a team full of right handers. Hector, Rich, Eric, etc. etc.
As for lane conditions on the right side.... all I can say is buy some more gear, learn some different shots or go drastic and throw left handed. Since in your eyes its not a sport than every mofo should be able to do it left or right handed.
Bowl in a scratch tournament, I guarantee you one of the best bowlers will win.
Late.
I heard about that, it was on ESPN. That the guy missed 1 pin to get a 300 a perfect game.
When I used to practice and bowl in 3 leagues, bowl tournaments all the time, I used to carry a 215 ave. But now, I don't care as much, I prefer having the handicap, because it helps me on the nights when the lane conditions aren't so scoring friendly. happens, but I'll tell you what, last week I bowled on the same pair as T. Reid, Murphy and a few others and I had the highest series and those dudes bowl for a living.
happens.
I need to go bowling, I haven't been in awhile. Last time I went bowling I shot a 275.
Sequ, I bowl with 2 of those members of the team that broke the state record, and they agree that bowling is a game. Next time you see Matt Cabanski, ask him. Go ask Hector, he agrees, Ill ask Eric Martinez when he logs on and see what he says.
BTW Astro needs to burn to the ground, ever wonder why Matt, Rich, Hector and Eric dont bowl there anymore?
I stand by this Bowling is a game if someone like me who never practices, and bowls 3 games a week can average over 200, then it has become a game, and not a sport. Matt bowls 3 leagues a week, plus bowls regionals, and averages 230 on Tuesdays, and he and I have the exact same opinions.
As for the best guys on tour, when was the last time you saw Walter Ray on TV?
He is by far the best bowler on tour and he cant get a sniff because the patterns arent matching up with the stuff hes throwing. He is still the most versitale guy on tour, along with Duke, which hasnt made a show in almost a year. This is due to the lane man controlling the shot.
Go play football, everyone plays on a field, you have variables, but they are the same for everyone. Peyton Manning had the same field surface as Tom Brady, it wasnt like the groundskeeper came down with the mowers and cut the field to help Peytons cleats grip the surface better then Bradys. It wasnt like the groundskeeper shut out the wide receivers but help the running backs.
Man all this talk about bowling makes me want to go practice.
I am going to go bowl the scratch matches at Astro, but you will probably not see me at a three grander ever again!
are you going to bowl the Columbia 300 tournament at Bandera this weekend, Id like to go 5 across or more if you'd choose. Ill be there on Sunday only since I have to work.
someone needs to copy this topic and take it to the PBA next time KEDA decides to enter another tournament. In fact find a bunch of 300lb black men at some bowling alley on the eastside and take Keda with a copy of this topic,
I can't believe Keda would turn his back on the one sport he sometimes pays 800.00 dollars to compete in. I guess any joe off the street can score a 275 on a nightly basis.
What will you say next? Boxing is not a sport? after all you don't use a ball and you wear gloves while your in your boxer shorts dancing in a ring.
well I will remember that when I see two over weight bowlers beating your ass in the mens room at the 1000 oaks bowling alley next week
the sad part about this topic is the fact Jim Rome proved his 15 minutes are up.
Bro, black people dont bowl
In the HISTORY of the PBA 1 black person has ever one a national stop
George Brahnam III is the only Black to ever win a PBA Tournament, and he is also the only black to ever win a major (Firestone Tournamnet of Champions)
Actually I know a couple...one guy I used to bowl with at Oak Hills....did a great imitation of Chef from South Park. Nice guy and a good bowler. Ken something or other.Bro, black people dont bowl
Do you remember the last time I saw you bowl? who was bowling on your lane? and what color was he?
Typical.
i suck at it. so i hate it with a passion
Im sorry, yes black people bowl.
and there are blacks that are VERY GOOD.
Jonathan Wiley from Houston, who is "retired" still throws it better than 99.9% of the people in the world.
But not on the PBA, as far as the expemt list goes there are NO blacks on the list!
Last edited by KEDA; 11-10-2005 at 11:36 PM.
Bowling is a pastime, not a sport.
not when you pay 3,500.00 dollars to win a Million. and what about bass Fishing?
Funny how the Olympics calls javelin a sport and yet the natvies in Africa call it getting dinner
The thing about bowling is that the once a year bowler will shoot a 200+ game and claim that he shot better than the pros on tv. Of course he doesn't know that the pros bowl under very difficult lane conditions, while the open bowling condition is a "house condition", very easy to score on. I used to bowl in three leagues, but now I bowl only one league at Lackland AFB. Bowling is a great and compe ive game, not a sport. When American Bowling Congress wanted bowling to be entered into the olympics, the IOC turned the game of bowling down. One of the reasons I understand was you couldn't not tell which teams were bowling against each other. Everybody was high fiving each other. Everybody was mingling with each other from different teams. Kind of hard to be compe ive when you're having fun with the team you are suppose to beat. I do think bowling gets a bad rap though. Just look at the way TV portraits bowlers. They all wear bowling shirts, and everybody's at the foul line cheering the bowler on. Oh yeah, lets not forget drinking lots of beer and eating hamburgers.
I declare bull .
Keda, just because you can bowl a ing 200 at thousand oaks doesn't make you PBA Tour worthy.
Dude, I guarantee you that you would never even make a cut, and I've never seen you bowl. For one, you couldn't bowl that many games in one day.
I couldn't either.
I bowl for fun and a little bit of compe iveness because without throwing ing darts, its all I can do now at my age.
I played baseball, football, basketball and whatever else I could play, but bowling is my thing now......... for fun with a little bit of sauce on it.
Bowling is a ing sport. Why? Because it requires ing skill, mental toughness, and ing compe iveness.
Most of you don't have a clue.
I love ing bowling. I don't care what anyone says.
no. Why waste my money?? I am not a scratch bowler.
Sequ, a PBA regional has an 8 game qualifying, I can bowl 8 games.
and I take it you arent bowling at Bandera or at the scratch matches at Astro later in the month?
If I actually practiced and mabye bowled a few regionals, im sure I could make a cut, but that would involve me taking time off my job to chase a pipe dream. And Im not going to do that.
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