The King is dead....

[JohnMcIntyre]

Long live the king!



Elvis, gone but never forgotten!





JMc

 

[Papa Joe]

Don't think of him too much anymore.

But it's a fact, he influenced the planet !!

Joe

 

[Bob Wagner]

I thought this post was in regards to

the passing of Earl Anthony





Whatever happened to the PBA

 

[HEMI®Dart]

Me Too Bob



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Earl Anthony was probably the best lefty Pro-Bowler there ever was. 41 PBA championships, a record that may never be topped.



I used too Love watching the Professional Bowlers Tour on ABC on Saturday afternoon's. The ratings were fantistic too.



When we were Kids, my neighbor who had connections to the PBA, When the tour came around, he let us sit in the Sette area while the "rabbit squads" were bowling. I can remember Mark Roth. His thumb looked like raw hamburger. He held the record for highest tour average (220 I think) for years. Thats incredible considering he's on lanes he's not used too. Pro Tournament oil is nasty too. It's 100 times harder than bowling on the amateur oil/high scoring pattern. It [the record] was just broken over the past few years by Walter Ray Williams, now Parker Bohn III holds it. But Mark used a Rubber Columbia Yellow Dot ball, Thats a major disadvantage over the modern resin ball.





The last Tournament I was at, the Greater Hartford Open in '91 my neighbor got us seats in the V. I. P section for the television finals. We sat in the bleachers just behind the bowlers. Kelly Coffman made the TV finals. I have never saw a bowler put so many revs on a ball. It supposedly rotated 22 times sideways from his release to the pin deck. Absolutley Incredible to watch. The snap on his ball at the back end was just as fun to watch. The wrist action at his release was mind boggling. You could hear a "drone" like noise as the ball went down the lane because of the revs he put on the ball He was voted by his fellow PBA members as "most powerful strike ball" on tour. I think he held it for 3 or 4 years.



The PBA was bought by 3 from Microsoft? a couple of years ago. . It looks like they are doing a good job, getting the big bucks back in the tournaments. The tounaments will be carried by ESPN again the fall & Winter.



PBA home page (great info & pictures) http://www.pba.com/

 

[tntway]

yeah me too

yeah now that i think about it i used to always watch bowling before "Wide World of Sports" didn't have a clue then as to how they scored, but still loved it anyway. yup, i remeber those guys

real well...