So we did reasonably okay, although I doubt any of us cashed. I shot a 207, a 229, and a 223. For some reason my thumb kept swelling, so I’d be fine for a few frames and then the ball wouldn’t come off my hand properly. On the other hand, I did better than I did last year.
Below is a picture of Kathleen, Ariel and I with Walter Ray Williams, who we bowled with in our last five frames and is considered the greatest living bowler in the world.
KI will be in the audience at the 2:00pm ESPN broadcast today wearing my Spider-man Jersey.
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Well, congratulations, you all out-bowled the President of the United States. There is branding in this. You could be the “Supra Presidential Bowlers.”
I haven’t bowled in years. When I did, I didn’t beat the president’s OLD score…
Speaking of bowling and ESPN, is it just me, or do their commercials for PBA events rank up there with the Gates/Seinfeld Microsoft commercials for badness and inability to sell the product?
For those who haven’t seen them, there’s a set of about four, used repeatedly for different events, each featuring a bowler dressed as a past decade stereotype; a hippie, hair band hard rock 80s type, 50s nerd, etc. intercut with archive audience footage of folks in suits and coats applauding, looking for all the world like cuts from an Ed Sullivan show audience.
I could see the stereotype bowler stuff working, but using the archival audience footage seems to me to basically be saying “Bowling. It’s for really old people. Not you.”.
Geez, Peter, have you lost more weight, or something? Or is it just the angle at which you’re facing the camera?
“…but my friend says it’s just the way he’s holding the spear.”
I like that you and your wife had on similiar shirts. I usually can’t get my wife to wait the same shirt when we bowl doubles. But then, I’m told I have bad taste in clothing.
Were those scores straight up or nine-pin no-tap? If straight up, nice for bowling on dry lanes and having thumb problems. Nine-pin, ehh. Could have done better.
I did not know you were a bowler. Glad to see a fellow machocist doing good for himself. Also good to see you’ve infected your daughter with the love of bowling.
Those aren’t bad scores, no one can accuse you of being in the Special Olympics.
“a picture of … I”?