Author Topic: Hambone?? (Read 7579 times)

9andaWiggle · « **on:** April 07, 2008, 04:00:30 AM »

Who came up with this?
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Locke · « **Reply #16 on:** April 07, 2008, 06:39:50 PM »

I like that it is bringing attention to the sport. I hate it as a saying though. Also, I have like 30 of those hambone patches from YABA. I got them from when I was about 6-12. I was 6 in 95 for an idea of timing. They stopped giving them to us as soon as we got to twelve.

LuvThatWhiteDot · « **Reply #17 on:** April 08, 2008, 05:33:35 PM »

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Sad that youth bowling gives patches for doubles nowadays.

When your average is in the low 2-digits, a double is something special!

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novawagonmaster · « **Reply #18 on:** April 08, 2008, 11:39:02 PM »

I've come to terms with the HAMBONE.
Love it. Embrace it. Go get one for yourself!
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alcornel · « **Reply #19 on:** April 08, 2008, 11:56:06 PM »

I agree that anything that brings attention to bowling is a good thing.

Besides it made me smile to see PDW to do the crothc chop and say

"Hey Rob Stone, here's your hambone."
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se7en · « **Reply #20 on:** April 09, 2008, 07:57:56 AM »

They did a cheer vote at the Roll to Riches and I'd say those for the hambone won.

When Randy Pederson came to our lane at the ProAm, he introduced himself as 'not the hambone guy'.
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novawagonmaster · « **Reply #21 on:** April 09, 2008, 08:46:50 AM »

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When Randy Pederson came to our lane at the ProAm, he introduced himself as 'not the hambone guy'.
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Now that's funny!
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Timotheus · « **Reply #22 on:** April 09, 2008, 09:45:08 AM »

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how did we get turkey for 3 in a row??

The term "turkey" came about back in the early 1900's when bowling was just getting up and going.

The owners of the bowling alleys would give a free live turkey to anyone that could get 3 strikes in a row.

Over the years it just caught on

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Edited on 4/7/2008 2:38 PM

I think you're partly correct but from what I understand its slightly different, same premise though.

What I understand is that during the Depression when people couldn't afford to eat, a house owner/proprieter who may have had a little excess money got a sort of charity event together for Thanksgiving and set it up so that anyone that was able to roll three strikes in a row got a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. The term stuck.

Also, bowling has been around since well before the early 1900s in Europe (I think it originated in what was then Prussia, today Poland) and was brought to the States by the immigrants. Obviously its changed some since it was brought over, but the basic premise of rolling a ball down a lane and knocking over pins is the same.

Edit: After looking it up it seems the first form of bowling was invented by the ancient Egyptians, and it seems also seperately in ancient Finland and Yemen, and Germany in about 300AD, and from there evolved into what we know it as today.
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KDawg77 · « **Reply #23 on:** April 09, 2008, 09:47:15 AM »

Honestly, I'm pro-Hambone, but not giving patches/emblems for doubles in youth leagues. Four makes more sense for the pee-wees.

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Hook · « **Reply #24 on:** April 09, 2008, 11:31:26 AM »

Here's the hambone patch.
http://img107.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=63141_announcement_122_963lo.jpg

mumzie · « **Reply #25 on:** April 09, 2008, 12:13:12 PM »

I keep seeing this patch pop up here - would someone please either publish a viable link to a real USBC article/statement, or start posting this pic with a disclaimer?

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Mullet Warrior2 · « **Reply #26 on:** April 09, 2008, 12:14:06 PM »

Hambone..... I don't know for sure who came up with it, I am sure that Wikipedia could tell ya, but that right there is funny, I yell HAMBONE!!! the same time the guy on TV does, man it makes bowling more fun to watch!
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rackattack · « **Reply #27 on:** April 09, 2008, 01:08:41 PM »

I was a little resentful at first a non bowler would take it upon himself to start tradition in OUR sport but I got over it.
Hambone it is.Power of the media
Question. With scoring being computerized is the term "going off the sheet" or "going sheet" from the manual scoring days to signify striking out from a given frame passe?
I've used this term with my athletes (high school age)and gotten that blank stare they give us clueless old guys.
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MelvinBrunsTrack · « **Reply #28 on:** April 09, 2008, 01:11:13 PM »

I have nothing to do. I just made that emblem my homescreen on my cell phone.

MI 2 AZ · « **Reply #29 on:** April 09, 2008, 07:07:43 PM »

I found a link to the old hambone patch on the bowl.com site under the Junior section. Large download, about 21 mb. Page 2, top right.

http://www.bowl.com/Downloads/pdf/GearUpBrochure2007.pdf

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Dan Belcher · « **Reply #30 on:** April 10, 2008, 08:53:35 AM »

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Hambone is a lead in for future sales of shirts, patches and anything else the whores can peddle for a buck. Makes no sense at all. I remember when the term hambone was a polite way of calling someone an idiot, similar to bonehead.
Whatever happened to keeping things normal and simple? I prefer double, triple, 4 bagger, 5 bagger, 6 in a row, 7 in a row, etc.
Rob Stone? Has no business being an announcer for the sport. Rob Stone and Randy "can't make the show" Pederson are ruining the TV telecast of the show as far as I'm concerned. They are more into promoting their own sense of comedy and self promotion than just calling the frigging game.

In my opinion, hearing this same exact friggin' complaint day in and day out (and always from the same people) is infinitely worse than their commentary must be to you.

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