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LaneForQueen

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Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« on: July 25, 2007, 01:57:51 AM »
A debate between a close friend and me sparked this topic: When you cross over to the "incorrect" side of the headpin, what do you call it? I call it Brooklyn. He calls it Jersey. (We live in different states.) Does it change for everyone based on where they live?
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Re: Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2007, 09:59:04 AM »
I think it's been offically changed to "Going Barnes".
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Re: Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2007, 09:59:48 AM »
Upstate NY: Brooklyn.

I have a friend from Long Island that calls it Jersey side.
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Re: Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2007, 10:02:19 AM »
Around these parts it's referred to as the WRONG side.
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Re: Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2007, 10:03:04 AM »
I was told that when a right-handed bowler crosses over it's called a "Brooklyn"; and when a left-handed bowler crosses it's called a "Jersey".
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Re: Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2007, 10:08:49 AM »
I've only ever heard it called a Brooklyn strike around here.  I've heard that "Jersey" is another term for it, but I've never met anyone who says that.

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Re: Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2007, 10:13:34 AM »
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I was told that when a right-handed bowler crosses over it's called a "Brooklyn"; and when a left-handed bowler crosses it's called a "Jersey".
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Re: Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2007, 10:15:46 AM »
I am from Staten Island, which is connected to Brooklyn via the Verrazano Bridge, and we call it Jersey.  Jersey is to the left of us, Brooklyn to the right.  The only bowlers that can call it Brooklyn, and be geographically correct, would be Long Islanders, I guess.
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Re: Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2007, 10:39:36 AM »
in jersey i always hear brooklyn
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Re: Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2007, 10:40:45 AM »
It was always a Brooklyn to me, and I grew up in Ohio.
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Re: Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2007, 10:42:34 AM »
Brooklyn for me. Heard Jersey for the first time during my travel league.
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Re: Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2007, 10:43:52 AM »
depends on how far i cross over, it is im the 1-2 pocket, then brooklyn, with a little disgust on my poor shoot
if i go further left and get lucky its jersey lol
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Re: Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2007, 10:48:28 AM »
Growing up in Brooklyn, we always called a cross-over Jersey.  I thought that "everywhere" else, a cross-over was called Brooklyn.  Didn't Nelson Burton used to call them Brooklyn shots on the old PBA telecasts?
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Re: Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2007, 10:52:30 AM »
Being from Jersey, I always heard a Righty Cross-Over a "Brooklyn" and a Lefty Cross-Over a "Jersey".  I guess this is one of those things that will never be finalized.  To each is own.  All in all it's a bad shot.

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Re: Brooklyn? Jersey? Idiocy?
« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2007, 11:01:24 AM »
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We called it Brooklyn in Boston.  When I moved to the Philly area is when I first heard Jersey.


Same here.. I'm not from Boston, a bit south actually.

Oh, and if "Going Barnes" is going to make me $200K, then sign me up!!
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