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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Jorge300 on May 02, 2012, 04:48:10 PM
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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 (http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7858863/racing-boxing-highest-paying-sports-espn-magazine)
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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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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.
Smash49
Rash should take up badminton it pays better! lol
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The current ownership has no clue how to promote the sport.
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Heck, badminton made more money than bowling!
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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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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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I notice that too...
Heck, badminton made more money than bowling!
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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.
Beware!
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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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I bowl and I eat hot dogs... Hmmmm... ;)
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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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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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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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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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While it is too bad it has come to this, it is what it is.
Bowlers themselves are not willing to support the tour. Because of this sponsors are not willing to step up as well.
The tour was bankrupt when the microsoft guys bought in and they have lost millions since. If you don't think they want it to succeed then I don't believe you have clue.
If the tour players made more money they would make more money.
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I don't doubt the microsoft guys want this to be a profitable experience but considering how they are running things and how little any bowlers want to watch their product I would say they didn't do anyone any favors. They should have stuck to computer software or brought in someone that knows more of what they are doing.
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I was pissed about something and sent it to the usbc. The response was from the guy who investigated fake honor scores in the last few years. He said I can see that your frustraded but nothing the usbc can due about my issue. I'm not going to get into details about the issue. I can now say that the usbc doesn't care what you are doing to make bowlers better. I thought the usbc would care to keep a person invovled in bowling if that person taught bowlers who over the last 3-4 years won around 70k. Anyways I am finishing this season and leaving bowling.
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Probably the leading money winner makes less than Kate Upton did for doing her "Cat Daddy" dance video.
And I think that's SORT of OK! Have you seen it?
When I am not thinking of Kate Uptons Cat Daddy video, I remember when bowlers made about 1/2 of golfers annual winnings and were revered as sports icons in nearly the same stratosphere!
Don't you wish that were the case today!
REgards,
Luckylefty