A poll on what type of bowling alley you want

[MICHAEL]

SOMEONE THAT KNOWS HOW TO SET A POLL UP HOW ABOUT ONE WITH THIS:

1. A real bowling alley where oil, and applications are done on a regular basses, including just before EVERY league

2. Cosmic style bowling, no regard to oil even on league days, black lighting, rails up for who cares, bounce it off the rails as much as possible, loud music, beautiful women in go, go cages dancing and singing along to the music,,, lots of expensive exotic food, and drinks!

Lets let them know,,, THE POWERS THAT BE, what we want!!

Can someone set this poll up,,,, or does it really not matter anymore,,,, is league bowling a dying species?? Is it doomed to go the directions of the Diana- sores!

This may be are LAST CHANCE to let the owners know that we want the SPORT, not the damn fun time stuff!!!!! We are not there to have a good time,,, we want bowling to be a sport, not a PIN-BALL-Machine! Iceman

[Mike White]

I think it's business people who see league bowling as a profitable endeavor, that are the dying species.

[MICHAEL]

I think it's business people who see league bowling as a profitable endeavor, that are the dying species.

WHY,,,, why is it dying? Baseball and Football have been around for a long time, and stronger then ever? Why is it that the general public don't find bowing leagues relevant anymore??

Is it the middle class is disappearing, and money is tight? If that were the case why are movie theaters doing well with ticket at over 10 bucks?

I need REASONS,,, how can ICEMAN attack this puzzle if he is clueless as to the reason for the huge decline?

Is it the GMO's we are being sold at the stores,,,, ??? flu shots with the mercury??? I don't do either??? I just don't get the reason for the decline?

Is it because so many people are making only the minimum wage now, which is just over 7 bucks an hour, and that the average age of those minimum wage works is climbing and is now 29!! Job's good paying ones all going to China ect???

I know for sure when bowling was in its hay-day, this country was just out of WW2 and we had a STRONG huge middle class.... that middle class has been, (just like league bowling diminishing year by year),,,,,,Is this the end time????

[Mike White]

WHY,,,, why is it dying? Baseball and Football have been around for a long time, and stronger then ever? Why is it that the general public don't find bowing leagues relevant anymore??

Is it the middle class is disappearing, and money is tight? If that were the case why are movie theaters doing well with ticket at over 10 bucks?

I need REASONS,,, how can ICEMAN attack this puzzle if he is clueless as to the reason for the huge decline?

Is it the GMO's we are being sold at the stores,,,, ??? flu shots with the mercury??? I don't do either??? I just don't get the reason for the decline?

Is it because so many people are making only the minimum wage now, which is just over 7 bucks an hour, and that the average age of those minimum wage works is climbing and is now 29!! Job's good paying ones all going to China ect???

A big part of it is the commitment. Many leagues are 30+ weeks long.

You don't have to commit to watching a movie in the theater every week, at a specific day and time.

People don't know if they are even going to have a job for the next 30 weeks.

The "job creators" are really squeezing the workers for every last dime.

And there are a lot fewer blue collar 9 to 5 type jobs.

Thats the issues from the bowlers perspective.

From the owners perspective, there are more profitable ways to use their money / land space.

As for the heart of the problem, I blame it on Soccer, and the infamous Soccer Moms.

With less youngsters bowling in youth leagues, there are less people "graduating" into adult leagues.

[MICHAEL]

One of the reasons I dislike most people is the fact that they don't bowl league!!!! They are KILLING the Sport I love! Do what you got to do, find a way and Join a league!! Help Make America Strong Again!!'

[RobLV1]

The thing that we fail to do to get new bowlers is to teach them how to bowl. I did an interview with Mark Baker a couple of years ago and he said something very surprising to me. He said that the most important thing that we, as coaches, can do for bowling is to teach people to break 100. He went on to say that once a bowler can break a hundred consistently, we have them. Until we do that, they will probably never join a league or otherwise see bowling as anything but an occasional recreational activity.

I agree 100%!

[J Anderson]

WHY,,,, why is it dying? Baseball and Football have been around for a long time, and stronger then ever? Why is it that the general public don't find bowing leagues relevant anymore??

Is it the middle class is disappearing, and money is tight? If that were the case why are movie theaters doing well with ticket at over 10 bucks?

I need REASONS,,, how can ICEMAN attack this puzzle if he is clueless as to the reason for the huge decline?

Is it the GMO's we are being sold at the stores,,,, ??? flu shots with the mercury??? I don't do either??? I just don't get the reason for the decline?

Is it because so many people are making only the minimum wage now, which is just over 7 bucks an hour, and that the average age of those minimum wage works is climbing and is now 29!! Job's good paying ones all going to China ect???

I know for sure when bowling was in its hay-day, this country was just out of WW2 and we had a STRONG huge middle class.... that middle class has been, (just like league bowling diminishing year by year),,,,,,Is this the end time????

I think it's just another symptom of the moral decline in the economic leadership of the U.S.

Business schools do not educate their students to lead. They train them to manage their employees. Every decision is made with maximizing the quarterly profit as the deciding factor. Workers are just tools; it doesn't matter how badly you treat them as long as the produce X percent more than their pay and benefits. Unfortunately the cost of this mistreatment doesn't show up as a line item on the company balance sheet. Instead the cost is shunted off to society at large, both in taxes and a lessened quality of life.

[Mudpuppy]

It's easy - the Virtual Bowling Tour is going to save bowling BUT y'all need to JOIN NOW. Without your support you can jibber jabber all day long and just watch bowling be a distant memory buried in the annals of some dusty history book.

[fsbjcm]

The thing that we fail to do to get new bowlers is to teach them how to bowl. I did an interview with Mark Baker a couple of years ago and he said something very surprising to me. He said that the most important thing that we, as coaches, can do for bowling is to teach people to break 100. He went on to say that once a bowler can break a hundred consistently, we have them. Until we do that, they will probably never join a league or otherwise see bowling as anything but an occasional recreational activity.

I agree 100%!

That's how I got into golf years ago. Once I broke 100 that was it. Then it was breaking 90,80,70. Then I finally broke 70, and lost interest haha. Once I bowl a 300/800 might move on to archery or basket weaving or something.

[Aslan]

topless...topless....topless..

Wait! There's only 2 choices!! Thats not a "poll". Not to mention, everyone hear is a bowler....which cosmic bowlers are not...thus they are not here...thus we already know what the answer will be.

Problem solved.