what I don't understand about people, and the main reason why I don't even like reading message boards anymore, is what does everyone have against billy oatman? Everytime I've come in contact or seen the guy at a tournament, he's been a class act and made time to talk to everyone who approached him when he wasn't bowling.
However, people are quick to lick WRW's sack whenever his name is in the headlines. WRW is a great (the greatest at the time) bowler. But he's done more crap in the public eye than a bowler like Billy Oatman. Billy O has never yelled at a group of kids to leave him alone at a bowling center when they were just watching him practice, billy oatman doesn't go to autograph sessions and fakes an interest in being there.
I have a lot of respect for WRW as a bowler, but my personal experiences with the guy from when I was in YABA and last year at the Queens tournament just make me have a different view of the guy.
No one has ever come on and said why they don't like Billy, they just wish him all the shortcomings in the world. And that doesn't make sense at all.
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Justin Buford
