Quote from: Impending Doom on May 18, 2013, 09:49:33 AM

Live TV finals.

How can the PBA get away with tape delay in this modern age where every thing goes around the world at the speed of twitter. (Aren't the owners computer guys?) That's why the PBA called it the Summer Series -- it's filmed in the spring but airs in the summer. Wow. Imagine the NFL tape-delaying live games? I'd have to look it up and do the math, but the WSOB airs some of it's shows something like 12 weeks after taping live. Unreal. Someone should let the PBA know it's 2013.

Really, comparing the PBA to the NFL when talking about the ridiculousness of taped games is a little lopsided.  It would be more of an equal comparison if you used, say...college softball, or curling.  Something generally considered kinda, almost a sport, and if you don't happen to have the tv on at the right time you might not think of for 10 years at a time unless you are personally involved with the sport.  The PBA wants to be taken more seriously than that, but it just doesn't have the bankroll to do things "right".

I miss a tour stops with purses bigger than amateurs could make in Vegas mega buck tourneys.  Oh wait, you can't miss something you never had.

The PBA didn't have that 20 - 40 years anyway.

In the mid 1990s, top prize in the High Roller was $50,000.
Top Prize in the Mini-Eliminator was $100,000.
Top Prize in the International Eliminator was $1,000,000.
Top prize in the True Amateur Challenge when it started in 2002, was $35,000.

The PBA did match let alone exceed that of the TAC, High Roller, and Mini Eliminator. Nowadays you are right, but but to say that they never have beaten the amateur tournaments isn't right.

Plus you aren't taking into account that those are just for one tournament alone. Of course people are going to come out in droves for the amateur tournaments because of the requirements for the tournament field and the payout. Otherwise you'd have another PBA.

Oh.. don't forget about them also changing the rules in 1999, forcing the Pat Healeys and Tim Macks and the like to go to the PBA or overseas for the big money.

My point: there was more going on behind the scenes than was realized for the payouts.

BL.