My team started 36-0 over the first nine weeks of the 1995-96 season in a 28-team, five-player handicap league at Galaxy Lanes in Bradenton, Fla. It seemed that even when we bowled poorly, the opponents bowled even worse, but things balanced out and our huge early lead almost completely diminished, forcing us to win three points (which we did) on the final night (a position night).