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NOTAP4ME

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Billards vs Bowling
« on: April 13, 2008, 08:54:43 AM »
According to Parade Magazine Who made more money last year?, Professional Billards Player Jeanette Lee, or Professional Bowler Chris Barnes.

This one isnt even close, Jeanette Lee $650,000
                          Chris Barnes $313,000

An even better paying gig it to be a dog, Trouble,(Leona Helmsley's dog)
earned $12 million.
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Kevspins2

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Re: Billards vs Bowling
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2008, 05:16:09 PM »
who reads parade magazine?
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pegleg42090

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Re: Billards vs Bowling
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2008, 05:17:53 PM »
That's pretty interesting...
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Motogp69

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Re: Billards vs Bowling
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2008, 06:04:05 PM »
Once again it's just marketing yourself correctly. Pool is something everyone thinks is cool, at least right bowling not so much. You add money to the prize funds and it'll turn cool real quick, but I guess the idea of investing in a sport and hoping to make back in the future your investment is foreign to the idiots running the PBA.
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Re: Billards vs Bowling
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2008, 09:27:47 PM »
Besides that, she has a much better rack.
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chitown

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Re: Billards vs Bowling
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2008, 09:35:14 AM »
Lee is a major exception.  Most of her money was made with endorsements and not shooting pool.  Even with the PBA being in trouble it's still far and above more successful than billiards.
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BrianCRX90

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Re: Billards vs Bowling
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2008, 10:23:07 PM »
The PBA has some serious restructuring to do this off season. They need to market much better then they are now and figure out how to generate revenue and get the prize funds much, much, much larger. The new ownership since 2001 has been disastrous last couple of years.
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Spider Ball Bowler

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Re: Billards vs Bowling
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2008, 11:41:40 PM »
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Besides that, she has a much better rack.


Amen to that....man is she sexy.
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walley 3261

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Re: Billards vs Bowling
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2008, 07:48:30 AM »
Jeanette Lee 2007 PWBA Earnings $48,800
11 Tournaments  Finishes 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 9th - 4x, 17th - 3x

$601,200.00 dollars from sources other than winning Pool/Billiard tournaments.
On a side note, I have met Jeanette several times and she has quite the personality. She also does exhibitions and teaches. All though she is a GREAT Pool player she has figured it out as far as marketing herself.

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ctwings10

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Re: Billards vs Bowling
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2008, 02:47:38 PM »
So...bowling tournaments in casinos?
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shelley

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« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2008, 10:33:29 PM »
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Barnes' $313,000 must have included endorsements because the PBA listed his winnings as barely over $100,000.


He had a pretty substantial sponsorship from Columbia before the Ebonite buyout.  I believe it was $1M over 8 years.  Plus he won the Roll 2 Riches twice, then followed it up with a $30K win in a big European bowling event.  I believe it was a few month span where he raked in more than the next two guys on the money list combined.

Now, that was a few years ago.

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Gazoo

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Re: Billards vs Bowling
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2008, 09:19:34 AM »
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Barnes' $313,000 must have included endorsements because the PBA listed his winnings as barely over $100,000.

Granted they don't make what golfers make, but $100,000 for 21 weeks ain't bad. The Managers where I work have to work 60+ hours a week 52 weeks a year to make that much.

21 weeks as opposed to 52. I don't see where the complaints are coming from.

Believe me, PBA pro's that win a tournament a year are not hurting at all with their endorsements and never having to buy a bowling ball.



You keep leaving out the $28,000 in expenses that it cost these players to compete over 21 weeks. Not everyone is in the top 10 in earnings. At the professional level, it is what the bottom tiered professional is earning that indicates the health of that particular sport.
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Re: Billards vs Bowling
« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2008, 09:49:47 AM »
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You keep leaving out the $28,000 in expenses that it cost these players to compete over 21 weeks. Not everyone is in the top 10 in earnings. At the professional level, it is what the bottom tiered professional is earning that indicates the health of that particular sport.


You do realize that all of the staffers on tour generally never pay expenses right. Wes malott makes 50,000 a year throwing Columbia. All storm and Brunswick staffers get paid on tour.
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