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charlest

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Talk about no respect for (tenpin) Bowling
« on: April 09, 2005, 11:13:29 AM »
I had to post this:

I just did a search on ESPN's website, www.espn.com, looking for "bowling" on ESPN's own website. 28 out the first 30 "finds" were for Cricket matches. (Cricket, in case you didn't know, is British for baseball, where throwing their equivalent of a ball is called "bowling".)

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Hex017

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Re: Talk about no respect for (tenpin) Bowling
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2005, 07:18:18 PM »
No surprise there...bowling is considered a joke sport. I say take all who find bowling too easy and put them on the U.S Open shot and see how "easy" that is. Put this together with that crap Jim Rome pulled a while back and there you have the view of bowling in the commoners eyes. O well, I suppose you take the good with the bad.
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Strike300

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Re: Talk about no respect for (tenpin) Bowling
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2005, 07:51:10 PM »
How can any of us be mad at someones conceptions of a sport? We all have our own conceptions and we all voice ou opinions of them.
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Hex017

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Re: Talk about no respect for (tenpin) Bowling
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2005, 07:55:00 PM »
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How can any of us be mad at someones conceptions of a sport? We all have our own conceptions and we all voice ou opinions of them.


yes but which gets more negative feed back...football or bowling? Now I understand football is much more intense than bowling and requires a much higher level of physical decidication to compete at the top but bowlers don't even get credits as athletes, the top ones anyway. The local drunk doesn't count, but are you telling me that PA or TJ have no athletic skill? Bull. Everyones entitled to an opinion but why does the opinion of bowling for some reason always seem bad?
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hotwire13

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Re: Talk about no respect for (tenpin) Bowling
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2005, 02:20:07 PM »
not if you made robert smith play hockey

i think we'd win that one.
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T Brockette

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Re: Talk about no respect for (tenpin) Bowling
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2005, 02:37:25 PM »
Unfortunately, the perception of bowling is a picture of a bunch of pot bellied,
drunk guys in over large shirts. Public perception is hard to change especialy
when to only time bowling is seen in commercials or in movies, that's the way
it is portrayed. It's just like the perception that all southerner's are
ignorant red-necks that talk funny. Because most of the time we are seen on
tv or movies, that is the way we are portrayed. So I am hit with a double
whammy, I love to bowl and I am from the south.
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