Post by Harry the Horse on Aug 16, 2005 18:19:02 GMT -5
Dear Mr. Zoo Master:
I move that we ban from this site anyone under fifty-five years of age. After all, this is supposed to be about Action Bowling. Anyone who is not at least fifty-five is too young to have seen and/or participated in the REAL action bowling, which was in the sixties. After the sixties, action bowling died a slow agonizing death. It died lying on a synthetic lane and being rolled over by a polyester ball. From that moment on, every 170 bowler out there became a 195 bowler, and numbers meant nothing any more. In the 2000s, there were TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY TIMES as many perfect games bowled than were bowled in the sixties. And that was with less than half the number of leagues. If you equalize the number of leagues, it was more than five hundred times the number of perfect games. These days any 170 bowler just has to toss the ball in the general direction of the head pin, and he throws a strike. I would love to see some of today’s “action bowlers” try shooting with a rubber ball on wood lanes. They would average about 150. So if you’re not talking about action bowling from the sixties, you’re not talking about it at all.
I move that we ban from this site anyone under fifty-five years of age. After all, this is supposed to be about Action Bowling. Anyone who is not at least fifty-five is too young to have seen and/or participated in the REAL action bowling, which was in the sixties. After the sixties, action bowling died a slow agonizing death. It died lying on a synthetic lane and being rolled over by a polyester ball. From that moment on, every 170 bowler out there became a 195 bowler, and numbers meant nothing any more. In the 2000s, there were TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY TIMES as many perfect games bowled than were bowled in the sixties. And that was with less than half the number of leagues. If you equalize the number of leagues, it was more than five hundred times the number of perfect games. These days any 170 bowler just has to toss the ball in the general direction of the head pin, and he throws a strike. I would love to see some of today’s “action bowlers” try shooting with a rubber ball on wood lanes. They would average about 150. So if you’re not talking about action bowling from the sixties, you’re not talking about it at all.