First off Bowling is considered a sport by everyone. It will be just like Football or Baseball or Basketball.

(Now there might be part of the reason why bowling is not considered a sport. The name doesn't end in ball. When you bowl your a bowler , but in other sports your a "Player". Imagine being called a "Footer" or a "Basketer".)

It will be on TV every weekend with championships shown at the holiday's. The score's will be on the nightly news and in the sports section of the paper. There will be storie's about how another Pro Bowler was arrested for DWI or beating his wife. And of coarse the use of steriod's in the sport
(you know the guy the one with the Popeye like right arm.).

You'll have high school bowling with local, state and national championships. Then on to College bowling there to be scouted for being drafted into the Professional Bowling Association.

The PBA will have several million dollars in prize money in thier tournaments. Do to all the advertising space sold on the lanes and product placement at the tournaments.

Youth bowler's will start off in the Pee-Wee leagues, then move up to YABA. Then when they reach 18, they can enter into the amatuer leagues.

There they bowl on a singles league for a season to begin with.In this league they can only use One Polished Plastic ball, Drilled label only. This to hone their skill's and get use to the more competitive enviroment of the amatuer leagues.

After this can they join a league with teams, if a team need's a bowler (Player), The team will have tryout's for the position.

If several bowler's wish to form a team, they'll have to go to league tryout's. There show they meet the minimum requirements of the league.

Bowlers will fall into three levels.

Level One Bowler's (The Beginner's)
Average's from 0 to 169. Restricted to use of One Polished Plastic ball, Drilled label only. Can only use house shoe's.

Level Two Bowler's (The Junior's)
Average's 170 to 199. Restricted to use of One Polished Plastic and One Urethane ball, which can have a exotic layout. Also may use One Polished Reactive Resin ball drilled label only. No restriction on shoe's at this level.

Level's 1 & 2 are barred from learning the technical aspects of ball layout and drilling and ball construction.

Level Three Bowler's (The Elite's)
Average's 200 and up.  May use any ball type,layout or surface texture they want. They also now can start learning the technical aspects of ball layout and drilling so they can enter the ProShop Guild. Level 3's can tryout for the PBA if they maintain thier average for 3 seasons

To move up a level players must hold a next level average for half of the current season and finish with that average. If in more than one league then must have a ending average of the next level in all the leagues they bowl in.

Lane oil patterns will be challenging for the level 1&2's , But not overly hard for the level 3's. This is to insure level 1&2's will have to work harder on improving thier skill level and level 3's will only have to work on just tweaking thier game.

Handicaps will be much lower and if you bowl more than 10 pins over average in a game, your handicap will be reduced by that amount. Untill your level 3 then you can bowl over average as much as you want with no reduction's.

Tournaments will be scratch and handicap.All bowler's will pay the same to enter. But the money prize's can only be won by level 3's, 1 & 2"s just get a trophy or a patch. Bracket's basically the same way.

Things are great in the perfect bowling world. It's a big money sport. Amatuer league's with lots of money being pumped in by lower average bowler's. A small group of high average bowler's who are looked up to in awe by lower average bowler's, who strive to become one of the elite few.

LOL


Edited on 5/13/2007 5:45 PM

Great thought except bowing ball companies would folder because so few people would be able to buy balls. Plus you can limit what i person wants to throw! I think levels are good but yours are very harsh and there is no pay outs.
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Sheppy

Please, please can we have the perfect bowling world where people who are just getting into the sport are told they're too stupid to understand shoes, balls, layouts (barred from learning?  How stupid is that?), oil, or any of the interesting things about our sport.

I trust you're ready to give up those things?  You're ready to forget what you've learned here?  Talk about an elitist post.  Where's Hose?

That's like saying that people just starting to learn poker (that's the big thing now, isn't it?) can only play with a deck with two suits and where the cards only go up to 10.  They can't win with hands higher than two pair until they're ready to pony up $1000 to enter a tournament.

"Welcome to Monday Night Football.  For those of you who are too stupid to understand, we have two teams, a red one and a blue one playing this week.  Don't be confused by the numbers at the bottom of the screen, those are for people who are smart enough to play football themselves."

SH