That's not particularly good news. I haven't researched the history much, I just remember bowling being more prevalent when I was a kid in the 80's. We had a local chain of alleys called Bowl America (I think they still exist on the east coast), and they had commercials all the time (so did Putt Putt before they disappeared from the DC area), and bowling was on every Saturday.
I just think they need to do something to perk up public perception of bowling as a sport and interest overall, I would think there has to be some marketing/PR "A team" that can offer help with that, I know the poker boom was due in part to the proliferation of online poker, the hole card camera, but the fact that Chris Moneymaker won the world series in 03' certainly helped push it over the edge - the marketing teams took that ball and ran with it.
Not sure it would be possible for a total noob to ever show up at a major tournament and oust an all time great bowler, in fact I suspect it would be almost impossible. But take the fact that there is a PBA league in existence, I would NEVER EVER have known about it if I hadn't been watching the World Series of Bowling this year (due to my new bowling hobby) and wondered why these guys were wearing shirts with team names, and why the hell TO was on TV bowling LOL
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