The worst sport to watch on TV is Bowling

[jmowreader]

And I bowl!

Why it sucks: the Ladder format that all TV bowling tournaments follow.

Let's pull a tournament out of the air: the Democratic Underground Open. 150 professional bowlers come in to play. (To get a PBA card you need, IIRC, a 200 average over 60 games.) These 150 bowlers play for a week and finally narrow themselves down to the top six bowlers. Now it's television time.

Let's also say I can bowl my ass off and have made it to the top six, but I'm number six. To win the trophy, I must beat everyone else above me on the ladder. The number-three guy only has to beat me and two other guys to take the trophy; the number-one guy has to beat only one other person. And that in one day.

Anyone want to hazard a guess as to what's wrong with this system?

This is better: Adopt the NHRA's bracket format. PBA tournaments are always held in huge centers. Pair numbers 1 and 8, 2 and 7, 3 and 6, and 4 and 5. You could space them ten lanes apart and forget about precedence, or put them on side-by-side pairs and simulate the kind of league bowling the home audience plays and the bowlers all came up in. This does two things: it makes sure the two bwolers who make the final round are equally tired, and it makes for better television because the home audience can see more bowling.

[DEMVET-USMC]

1. I used to like watching bowling when I had TV.I guess I have pretty boring

tastes in TV viewing or it was late at night when there is nothing but pure garbage such as infomercials of witch my favorite was the "Prolong" motor oil additive one. It is great stuff and I use it in my truck and lawn mower. ...Oscar

[physioex]

3. There is no need for that snake oil...

Just do regular maintenance on your vechile, there are no easy solutions to everything...

[DEMVET-USMC]

8. Did you see the part about their million dollar challenge. They offer any

one 1 million dollars if you can prove there is any fakery about the tests they perform. They take the oil pan off the engine of a race car and run it around the racetrack a bunch of times with nothing but Prolong there to protect the engine. I swear by that stuff. ...Oscar

[physioex]

10. Sorry to burst your bubble...

But they were investigated by the FTC along time ago and they cannot make those claims going forward...I stand by my first statement...

[DEMVET-USMC]

14. I have no desire to argue, but were those ads faked or not ?

You were unclear about that , at least to me. ...Oscar

[jmowreader]

5. Don't put shit in your motor oil

High quality oil doesn't need anything added to it.

Yeah, if you're buying fuckin' API Service SA oil, Prolong would be a good product. And so would just about any other additive--API Service SA is non-detergent oil. But with the SL oil currently on the market, you don't need anything else in it.

Old-timey DUers may remember that I had a Volkswagen for about nine years. The oil pump on a VW is two gears driven off the camshaft, and one evening I was ten miles from home when the driven gear decided to quit being driven. Oil pressure went to zero. I thought I was done for. A Bug engine's crank and pistons are splash-lubed but the #1 and #4 main bearings have oil pumped up to them--that's the only thing the oil pump really lubes. (The cam is in the oil bath.) Thanks to the Castrol GTX in my engine, I got home without damaging the bearings. The next morning I changed the oil--I had the used oil analyzed at considerable expense and it was free from excessive metal. That engine ran for me for the next five years; I see the kid who bought the car frequently and he's having good luck with it.

[Brahma Bull]

2. Wrong.

It's golf.

[physioex]

4. Nooo wayyyy...Try and watch those tractor pulls......

:puke:

[jmowreader]

6. Hey! I like tractor pulls!

They're less boring than bowling.

[physioex]

11. LOL..Whatever makes you happy...EOM

[blackcat77]

7. Poker

And all of a sudden, poker is EVERYWHERE on tv. What is up with that...

[TheFarseer]

9. disagree

At least a bowling match ends in less than an hour. Car racing and golf last all fucking day, and golf, lasts all fucking week! and all the three are as boring as watching grass grow.

[struggle4progress]

13. Yeah, I vote for golf.

[arwalden]

12. Billiards... THEN Bowling.