What do you expect?
This is what happens when a sport gets lost and loses its self and its true identity.
In virtually all the other sports, an amatuer can compare themselves to the professionals they see on TV. Not in bowling.
If you can hit a baseball, or a golfball, make a freethrow, or throw a football, you can compare your skills with the guys you see on TV.
But, bowling you can''t. Bowling has made it a point of telling everyone about how different the pro game is, and how we "just can''t understand" how good they are because their conditions are SO different than ours.
When you have to start making things harder through artificial means, then use that difference to emphasize how little the amatuer actually knows (basically insulting them, their talent, and their understanding, every week), its no wonder the PBA is losing money and viewers.
The PBA should NEVER have sought to seperate itsself from the amatuer bowler, but fought to familiarize themselves to them. Instead of making it harder to compare yourself to the pros, they should''ve made it easier.
If you''re playing amatuer league baseball, its still baseball. Same with football, basketball, hockey, golf, soccer, etc.., but not bowling.
If you''re in amatuer league bowling, you are told you are playing an inferior level of the game, made easier especially for you because you aren''t good enough to play the REAL sport. Bad mistake.
You really want to impress the public with how good the pros are? Then don''t make everyone bowl crappy on special "tough" conditions. Give the pros the easy league shots, then dare the public to shoot the scores they see on TV.
If the pros can consistently shoot high scores on the easier conditions, then LET them. Then the amatuers could truly compare and be impressed instead of being alienated and insulted.
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Edited on 12/27/2010 11:51 AM
