I have visited 5 bowling centers in the Dallas/Ft Worth area this week and none (thats 0) had any materials promoting National Bowling Week. In fact only one of them had any idea what I was talking about. Great promotion--poor execution. Lynda Barnes and Sean Rash did a great job on CBS this week. Is the event being promoted in your area??
Oldhoop2, nope, but do know the BPAA member AMF centers did get the material. Things are just tough and many centers are understaffed to the point they can't even do what is in their best interest to do. Just yesterday I talked to a desk person at an AMF center who has been cut from 5 to 3 days and asked for a Villages contact to see if she can get the couple more days she needs to pay her bills. Where it was common for AMF centers to have program directors that did nothing but promote those days seem to be gone; anyone have centers in their areas with full time program directors?
Don Gates
forgot to ask, you doing your mini tour again this year?
oldhoop2:I have visited 5 bowling centers in the Dallas/Ft Worth area this week and none (thats 0) had any materials promoting National Bowling Week. In fact only one of them had any idea what I was talking about. Great promotion--poor execution. Lynda Barnes and Sean Rash did a great job on CBS this week. Is the event being promoted in your area??
Dear oldhoop2:
I'm not surprised at what you say.
National Bowling Week is "missing in action" in my area, too.
prunenow: Oldhoop2, nope, but do know the BPAA member AMF centers did get the material. Things are just tough and many centers are understaffed to the point they can't even do what is in their best interest to do. Just yesterday I talked to a desk person at an AMF center who has been cut from 5 to 3 days and asked for a Villages contact to see if she can get the couple more days she needs to pay her bills. Where it was common for AMF centers to have program directors that did nothing but promote those days seem to be gone; anyone have centers in their areas with full time program directors? Don Gates
That is odd. I was under the impression that open play, glow bowling, and birthday parties were so popular that league bowlers were no longer necessary. If you don't need leagues then I guess you don't need program directors or other types of full time employees for that matter.
skullpants, your impression perhaps but not that of past, present leaders of BPAA and the USBC board of directors who think differently and have put their money and their very futures 'all in' to back up a quite different view.
While there is strong support for National Bowling Week in some areas there is no better example of the need for a better top to bottom organization to put in place all over this land cooperative locals whose centers, other for profits who do business and/or support bowling and an army of volunteers for specific roles they are willing and good at to support what national sends on down and create programs of their own of mutual value.
An all over this land successful promotion of National Bowling Week together next year or the year after or sometime in the future will signal the success or the failure of getting it done at local levels.
You say that there is a need for a better top to bottom organization. I say there is a need for a new organization, an organization with core values very diiferent than our current governing body.
skullpants, when I write about a new top to bottom organization I follow that up with suggestions on how that organization should look, what it's role should be, how it should be financed, etal.
How about you doing the same, put some meat, some nuts and bolts into your words and do it as a real live person, not out of the shadows perhaps fearful that to come into the light the real person and the person posting would not be somewhat different. Even if they are it would make no difference to me and most other posters.
I just posted a few pictures of our National bowling Week "Bowling Night at the BlueLakewood Blueclaws" in the this a test thread.
skullpants:You say that there is a need for a better top to bottom organization. I say there is a need for a new organization, an organization with core values very diiferent than our current governing body.
I agree with skullpants that, whether there is a need for a new organization or not, there should definitely be an organization with improved core values.
And that would include substantial revisions in FOLLOWING THE RULES and revisions in the organization's System of Justice.
I wasn't going to share this since I was not personally present when it occured, but I think I will since I was told that it happened at my local center during open play during National Bowling Week. This was told to me by the local proprietor's son and daughter who both work at the alley. According to them there was a group of four or five people enjoying open play, part of which were members of my league. With them was another young man who was considering joining the league. This young man apparently got up to bowl and had the intentions of greatly increasing his ball speed on his next delivery. Perhaps he strained a little too hard in his attempt to put 100% of his strength into the shot. According to the son and daughter after he released the ball what appeared to be a Baby Ruth bar without the wrapper fell out of the bottom of his shorts and landed on the approach directly on the foul line. He then walked to the counter where he asked for a paper towel which he used to pick up the item and he took it to the nearest (dare I say it) waste bin. He then went back to the business of attempting his spare conversion after which he simply sat down at the setee as though nothing had just occurred. I was told that the other members of his party as well as other bystanders had a great deal of difficulty maintaining their composure after the incident. The young man in question did not show up for the organizational meeting, but perhaps he will be on hand next week when the league begins. It is probably best that he was absent because for some reason there was a great deal of discussion about what does and does not constitute a foul.
I think I pulled a muscle from laughing so hard!!!!!
cicada49: I think I pulled a muscle from laughing so hard!!!!!
Doctor Doom: cicada49: I think I pulled a muscle from laughing so hard!!!!! Ditto Cicada. One thing about the Skull, he has some funny stories. Still looking for that picture Skull.
Doctor Doom: Doctor Doom: cicada49: I think I pulled a muscle from laughing so hard!!!!! Ditto Cicada. One thing about the Skull, he has some funny stories. Still looking for that picture Skull. Skull, could not find the photo in question. So I came up with a Doom original, hope you like it.
Thanks Doom. You know I think I maybe do have that costume except for the hat, lol.
