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riggs

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PBA-ESPN new 5-year deal
« on: June 25, 2013, 09:14:56 AM »
FYI:

The 11th Frame: PBA CEO: New 5-year ESPN deal offers support ‘well beyond what they’ve done in past’

http://11thframe.com/page/blog_id_5923
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Re: PBA-ESPN new 5-year deal
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2013, 11:25:41 AM »

Sounds like good news!
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Maine Man

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Re: PBA-ESPN new 5-year deal
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2013, 12:51:45 PM »
That does sound promising. I wonder if the CBS Sports deal had something to do with ESPN "upping their ante" so to speak.
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Re: PBA-ESPN new 5-year deal
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2013, 09:18:55 PM »
I was hoping they'd go to CBS.
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Re: PBA-ESPN new 5-year deal
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2013, 09:30:53 PM »
Quote from: Spider Man on June 25, 2013, 09:18:55 PM
I was hoping they'd go to CBS.

Isn't "60 Feet to Success!" your favorite ?   :P  :-\
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Re: PBA-ESPN new 5-year deal
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2013, 10:27:07 PM »
Nothing will change. Pba will continue to decline until prize funds go up. Bowling is the only sport that the amateurs can actually make alot more than proffesionals and it's sad.
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Re: PBA-ESPN new 5-year deal
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2013, 10:13:39 AM »
Decent tv coverage with more sponsors is the best way to improve purses, although I am not sure this deal will lead to such an outcome.
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Re: PBA-ESPN new 5-year deal
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2013, 10:25:04 AM »
The PBA definitely needs more and bigger sponsors to increase tournament prize funds.   I remember the PBA had a lot of good sponsors back in the 80's like Firestone, Seagrams, Lite Beer, Toyota, Clarion Hotels to name a few. It would be cool to have Google, Sony, or Apple computers as a PBA sponsors. Just a thought.
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Re: PBA-ESPN new 5-year deal
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2013, 01:56:52 PM »
Quote from: Bowl_Freak on June 25, 2013, 10:27:07 PM
Nothing will change. Pba will continue to decline until prize funds go up. Bowling is the only sport that the amateurs can actually make alot more than proffesionals and it's sad.

Again, amateurs have nearly ALWAYS had the chance to make more than professionals do, and this was even back when the prize funds were higher on the PBA. I still haven't seen a PBA tournament offer $1 million to the winner, like the International Eliminator did, and that was back in the 90s.

Even now, the Amateur tournaments have shrank their prize funds as well. No complaints there?

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Re: PBA-ESPN new 5-year deal
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2013, 02:35:00 PM »
The up side I believe is that they have a deal.
I don't think there is an easy answer, bowling is a minor sport, and that's the way advertisers look at it.
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Re: PBA-ESPN new 5-year deal
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2013, 06:52:59 AM »
Quote from: bradl on June 28, 2013, 01:56:52 PM
Quote from: Bowl_Freak on June 25, 2013, 10:27:07 PM
Nothing will change. Pba will continue to decline until prize funds go up. Bowling is the only sport that the amateurs can actually make alot more than proffesionals and it's sad.

Again, amateurs have nearly ALWAYS had the chance to make more than professionals do, and this was even back when the prize funds were higher on the PBA. I still haven't seen a PBA tournament offer $1 million to the winner, like the International Eliminator did, and that was back in the 90s.

Even now, the Amateur tournaments have shrank their prize funds as well. No complaints there?

BL.


No bowling tournament has ever paid $1 million to the winner ... some have talked about it but none have done it.
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Re: PBA-ESPN new 5-year deal
« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2013, 12:46:15 PM »
Those first international eliminators, and possibly some  high rollers, were billed as paying 1 million for a $1000 entry fee.  I bowled one in 1984 and it paid 250k for first and 30K for second.  Not sure any ever paid much more than that.

However I do remember that Brian Kretzer won a couple of mega buck tourneys one year, and made more money than the leading money  winner on tour.     
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Re: PBA-ESPN new 5-year deal
« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2013, 07:23:45 AM »
BK won one that paid $250,000, which was the most ever paid out (along with TOC that Mika won) for a bowling tournament. I think the one BK won may have been in the Middle East.
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Re: PBA-ESPN new 5-year deal
« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2013, 09:51:57 PM »
Brian made about 500k that one season.  Not sure where the second big win came.  I thought it too was in Vegas. 
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