Anyone remember the women’s PBA tour? I sure liked to watch them on TV. I heard the reason they are gone is due to lack of sponsors.
Sure hope the same thing doesn’t happen to the PBA tour.
I was just checking through the PBA site and noticed Bowlersparadise is one of the PBA sponsors. Noticed another post about people complaining about the service they received from Ballcellar.
My question, why even consider using an unknown website retailer. I checked out a few websites, didn’t check every ball, but for the most part, there is only a savings of about $5. My feelings is if $5 means that much to you, maybe you shouldn’t be considering a $150 purchase. If my $5 means the PBA will continue to be shown on TV that’s a small price to pay.
I know a lot of you youngsters get tired of us old folks talking about the good old days. Lot of good did happen back then.
Almost every team was sponsored, companies paid into our prize funds, furnished shirts every year, usually gave discounts to their team. Some of the better sponsors even recruited bowlers to form a team just for bragging rights against their competitors.
What happened? Well, it seems like the discount houses came along, people were more interested in saving a few pennies than supporting their sponsors. Didn’t take long until the sponsors decided there was more effective ways to spend their advertising dollars.
Now when I walk into league night, it is simply appalling, can’t tell who is on any team, don’t really know everyone since most of them are wearing ragged jeans and a t-shirt. No wonder bowling has such a low image appeal.
Well, it may be just a small step, but this year I’m going to try and break the mold. My team will at least look like a team. I figure if I can justify $1000 worth of equipment, we can at least afford our own shirts.
Just perhaps if enough of us on this site start cleaning ourselves up, we can change bowlings image back again.
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~~~SrK - Have balls, will travel
1st law of combat, "Bullets always have the right of way"
