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General Category => PBA => Topic started by: tourpower on February 08, 2004, 05:45:03 AM

Title: Commercials
Post by: tourpower on February 08, 2004, 05:45:03 AM: I am tired of watching bowling every week and seeing the same commercials over and over again. I was just seeing if everyone thought the same.
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Josh (Spanky) Blanchard
Can't stop the 909
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: TheBowlingKid25 on February 08, 2004, 08:46:18 PM: Like the fat guy eatin a snickers? I know exactly what you mean.
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15 years and still going strong! 15 years old that is! DA DA DAAAAAA!! UP UP AND AWAY! TO THE BAT CAVE ROBIN!The names Warrior Princess, Xena..Warrior Princess
AM not A CHICK OF BOWLING but I wanted to be in Manda's clique
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: DavidKSNK on February 08, 2004, 08:48:37 PM: The chicken commercial with Bobby Labonte is getting on my nerves big time. Every frigging commercial break has it. I would never buy it for how obnoxious it is. Not to mention if I ever saw Bobby Labonte I might be tempted to crush a lead pipe into his head.
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: BadShot on February 08, 2004, 08:50:52 PM: next time that lady at the bowling counter asks what size, i wish he'd whip out 15 inches and show her!!
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That which does not kill me makes me stronger . . .
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: TheBowlingKid25 on February 08, 2004, 08:51:53 PM: LMAO!!
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15 years and still going strong! 15 years old that is! DA DA DAAAAAA!! UP UP AND AWAY! TO THE BAT CAVE ROBIN!The names Warrior Princess, Xena..Warrior Princess
AM not A CHICK OF BOWLING but I wanted to be in Manda's clique
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: TheBowlingKid25 on February 08, 2004, 08:53:37 PM: I wish I could do that MYSELF!!!
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15 years and still going strong! 15 years old that is! DA DA DAAAAAA!! UP UP AND AWAY! TO THE BAT CAVE ROBIN!The names Warrior Princess, Xena..Warrior Princess
AM not A CHICK OF BOWLING but I wanted to be in Manda's clique
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: TheBowlingKid25 on February 08, 2004, 08:54:52 PM: ^^^^ that wuz to bad shots post NOT mikeys LOL
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15 years and still going strong! 15 years old that is! DA DA DAAAAAA!! UP UP AND AWAY! TO THE BAT CAVE ROBIN!The names Warrior Princess, Xena..Warrior Princess
AM not A CHICK OF BOWLING but I wanted to be in Manda's clique
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: a_ak57 on February 08, 2004, 09:02:12 PM: Aw, you don't want to look like a dumbass?
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: TheBowlingKid25 on February 08, 2004, 09:05:01 PM: AK WOULD YOU STOP BEING LAZY AND GET ON AIM SO I DONT HAVE TO TALK TO U OVER PM'S!!!!!!!!
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15 years and still going strong! 15 years old that is! DA DA DAAAAAA!! UP UP AND AWAY! TO THE BAT CAVE ROBIN!The names Warrior Princess, Xena..Warrior Princess
AM not A CHICK OF BOWLING but I wanted to be in Manda's clique
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: a_ak57 on February 08, 2004, 09:05:59 PM: But being lazy is so fun....fine, I will.
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: michelle on February 08, 2004, 09:15:51 PM: tourpower...just be thankful it is not the ovaltine guy
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: tourpower on February 08, 2004, 10:55:02 PM: Why do we have to have some ugly girl do the interviews. Even The World Poker Tour has some hot girl on there doing interviews with the poker players. No wonder we only have viewers that know something about bowling.
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Josh (Spanky) Blanchard
Can't stop the 909
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: RandyO on February 08, 2004, 11:14:48 PM: What do looks have to do with conducting an interview? Although her first couple of bowling shows were a little rough, Holly is getting better at the Q&A snippets. She is NOT "ugly". It is a safe bet that she won't be doing a Penthouse/Playboy spread anytime soon, and you may find other women more attractive in your eye, but to criticize her for being "ugly" when her job is to conduct interviews is unfair and uncalled for. She's just another "lower tier" female sportscaster trying to work her way up the chain. Please judge her on the quality of her work, and not her lack of appeal to you. I have yet to hear anyone criticize Dave Ryan, Randy Pedersen, Brian Voss, Bo Burton, Marshall Holman, Earl Anthony, Billy Welu, Chris Schenkel, or Bud Palmer for being ugly! I have heard valid criticisms of their announcing/broadcastin/commentary abilities. Perhaps we should afford the female workers the same courtesy??
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: straightUP7 on February 08, 2004, 11:27:42 PM: Thanks RandyO, once again a voice of REASON. We need MORE of this here!

Edited on 2/9/2004 0:24 AM
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: WSUstroker on February 08, 2004, 11:51:31 PM: There are definately a few commercials during pba telecasts that are quite annoying. The baby ruth commercials are just stereotypically dumb-not all bowlers look like that. The bowlers paradise commercial is odd because they show the guy before shoes, then after acquiring his new shoes he is a pro bowler that forgets about the foul line. Other than that, some geico ones are getting old and I'm with David K, if Bobby Labonte is around and he starts driving those chicken strips, sh!ts gonna hit the fan!
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Dan Chambers
Winona State University Bowling
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: RandyO on February 09, 2004, 12:12:04 AM: You know what I find the funniest? Whenever they have the Cambridge Credit Classic, they always show the two guys who own/run/represent Cambridge Credit Counseling. Those guys look like they belong on the set of the Sopranos. Kind of like Vinnie & Vito, the guys who come around to bust your head every time your 80% interest rate loan payment is a few days late. If they came to counsel me about my credit, I would run like hell!
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: thfonz98 on February 09, 2004, 12:40:32 AM: commercials...what commercials...i just hit fast forward on my tivo....oh well..(psss......its an easy fix)
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: sheppy335 on February 09, 2004, 08:18:18 AM: Hey that guys is my uncle! heheheheh

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Oil is served Best with fingers!
Why does the 8 Pin laugh at me!

Sheppy
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: mumzie on February 10, 2004, 05:28:31 PM: Bill,
Amen.
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: RichUT on February 10, 2004, 05:49:17 PM: Just get Tivo to record it and start watching 30 minutes after it starts. You can just fast forward through all of them that way.
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: Borincano on February 10, 2004, 09:32:40 PM: My REPLAY skips the commercials and I skip what Dave and Randy say. So no commercials and no annoying comments. Then record them on DVD with out them. It is just like a man I use to know when he watched baseball with the volume off. He knew what baseball was all about and did not need to hear or be told what was happening in the baseball field.
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: tisker on February 10, 2004, 10:02:12 PM: What ever happened to the Ovalten "man" who stalked children at the local bowling alley?
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Tisker- Looks like Tarzan, bowls like Jane
Visionary Staff Member (not really)
Title: Re: Commercials
Post by: Doggie the Dog on February 10, 2004, 11:11:55 PM: I second what Alaska Bill said about sponsors- the PBA is getting them aboard more and more each season- sure, it's not GM or any other monster corporation, but they are SPONSORS, which what the tour needed after Brunswick determined they could not keep the tour on life support forever (remember the gold pins and the Big B signs on late 90s telecasts??)
As for the commercials, the same ones over and over get old(Banquet I'm sure makes other products besides chicken patties(last year) and the Bobby Labonte/Joe Gibbs chicken strips- they advertise on my wife's soap opera(Days)such things as their "Homemade Bakes" and such.)
Odor Eaters doesn't make much else to advertise besides foot powder- and I distinctly remember the Baby Ruth guy being AWOL from Sunday's telecast(they had a different commercial)