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Jorge300

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How sad is this for bowling
« on: May 02, 2012, 04:48:10 PM »
This is from ESPN the Magazine....top earners in 31 different sports. Sean Rash led bowling and made less than Joey Chesnut did for stuffing his face full of hot dogs. Just sad!

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7858863/racing-boxing-highest-paying-sports-espn-magazine
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Re: How sad is this for bowling
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2012, 05:50:42 PM »
That is sad. If I was a racquetball player I'd make more. Heck, if I was the best sumo wrestler, I'd be a millionaire. Bowling is growing into nothing but a joke these days in terms of prize money. Whomever is their marketing person is,probably getting paid more than Rash. Sad days are a glooming.
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Re: How sad is this for bowling
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2012, 06:02:04 PM »
And Rash had a really good year considering..  The PBA at one time had trading cards.  On the backs it would tell how many years they were on tour and their winnings.  There were a few 12 years and $54000 cards if I remember.

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Rash should take up badminton it pays better! lol
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Re: How sad is this for bowling
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2012, 06:23:46 PM »
The current ownership has no clue how to promote the sport.
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Re: How sad is this for bowling
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2012, 06:48:52 PM »
Heck, badminton made more money than bowling!
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Re: How sad is this for bowling
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2012, 09:57:13 PM »
Ain't going to change until the players take their destiny into their own hands.  Relying on non-bowlers to do it ain't working.
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Re: How sad is this for bowling
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2012, 11:29:11 PM »
They might as well start a Gambler's Bowling Tour where backers, the crowd, the fans, and the bowler's can bet it up.

I would venture to say that the current PBA tour is interested in being clean cut and maybe something your family would want to watch and respect, but let's be real, bowling is about swilling beer, eating onion rings, and losing all the money in your wallet in the brackets lol, so they might as well bite the bullet and make the tour reflect these realities. 

But really though, I have never seen darts on television and the dart player on the ESPN list made multiples of the highest season tour earnings ever!
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Re: How sad is this for bowling
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2012, 12:15:28 AM »
I notice that too...

Quote from: charlest on May 02, 2012, 06:48:52 PM
Heck, badminton made more money than bowling!
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Re: How sad is this for bowling
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2012, 01:51:33 AM »
Quote from: BruceKaratz on May 02, 2012, 11:29:11 PM
I would venture to say that the current PBA tour is interested in being clean cut and maybe something your family would want to watch and respect, but let's be real, bowling is about swilling beer, eating onion rings, and losing all the money in your wallet in the brackets lol, so they might as well bite the bullet and make the tour reflect these realities. 

That's a tool's point of view. If the PBA goes this way, then bowling is ultimately dead as a sport. Bowling is what it is made of it in the public. There might be onion ring social bowling, true, but that may belong into family shows where noobs compete with each other about getting the first ball into the pin deck at all. But if this happens to sport bowling and paid pros, then any attempt to consider bowling a sport like golf, billard, maybe even darts, is futile.

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Re: How sad is this for bowling
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2012, 08:07:46 AM »
I can't stand "professional" bowlers bunch of cry babies.  Was bowling with some and couldn't believe the foot kicking scuffing the approach in the slide area, puffed bottom lips, fat, and not an althetic one in the bunch.  Oh you wear them boy scout patches so well good thing you got your pro shop's name on your shirt so I can avoid it like a plague.
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Re: How sad is this for bowling
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2012, 08:59:11 AM »

I bowl and I eat hot dogs... Hmmmm... ;)


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Re: How sad is this for bowling
« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2012, 10:02:46 AM »
Bowling is a sport for the masses, whether its open play, league bowling or competitive bowling. The problem is the so called elite want to make the sport in their vision only. They do not support the leagues, organizations or tournaments that give them the conditions that they ask for. That would put them in a not so elite status and they would be taking money from each other instead of the average league player they complain about.
Bowling is a great sport but the elite must recognize their place and support that aspect of their game and leave the rest to do their thing.
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Re: How sad is this for bowling
« Reply #12 on: May 03, 2012, 03:22:58 PM »
That number comes from PBA.com and doesn't include money he made internationally.

http://www.pba.com/SeasonStats/TotalWinnings/59

Tommy Jones only made $17,390.00 in PBA competition (not counting the All-In-Shootout).

But, he won the WBT International Bowling Tour in Japan and made $77,500.

http://www.bowlingdigital.com/bowl/node/10555

He also won the Korea Cup for another $26,325.

http://www.bowlingdigital.com/bowl/node/10056

The top bowlers are definitely making good money by traveling around the world.  Here's the 2012 World Bowling Tour schedule and winners.

http://www.bowlingdigital.com/bowl/node/10212
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Re: How sad is this for bowling
« Reply #13 on: May 03, 2012, 03:35:12 PM »
This is a recent competition in Germany, part of the "European Bowling Tour".  Not a significant prize fund, but a little more money made.  Sean Rash took home another $2,629.73.  Mike Fagan won it and took home $9,203.54.   

http://www.bowlingdigital.com/bowl/node/10865

More EBT scheduled events.

http://www.bowlingdigital.com/bowl/node/10119
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Re: How sad is this for bowling
« Reply #14 on: May 03, 2012, 05:37:10 PM »
Consider the fact it is called a tour and the main circuit no longer tours. Cant grow what the people can't watch and the centers can't promote.

It is now just a regional event at best not far behind the WPBA and XFL.
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