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I know this is a long message but please do read it, bowling is decreasing largly in numbers and needs your help!!!
Hi there, for those of you who don't know me,my name is james, a young bowler from Perth, WA. ten-pin bowling has caught a bad wrap in the past, people claiming it to be not a sport, but a hobbie, these people are known as social bowlers. like it or not the game of ten-pin bowling is classified as a sport, and always will be.
Many of you have never heard of Fairlanes bowling center, but they have a great web-site (by the way it's www.fairlanes.com.au) on this site they have a section on ten-pin bowling facts, some of them are as follows
1:Approximately 3 million people bowl each year making tenpin bowling the fifth most played sport in Australia.
2:Tenpin Bowling Australia, with nearly 113,000 members is the ninth (9th) largest sports organization in the country.
3:Tenpin Bowling Australia is the largest tenpin bowling organization outside of the United States.
4:Although difficult to estimate the tenpin bowling industry in Australia is worth more than $250 million per year.
Starting with the first point, 3 million people play the sport, making it the 5th largest sport in Australia, now you think about it, 5th largest and it is not even telivised, think of the amount of members we could get into the sport if the games was telivised.
Then onto point 3 outside of America, Australia has the bigest bowling bowling organisation in the world, now think about that, we are bigger than japan, malaysia, singapore (i have traveled to these countries and believe me bowling is a huge sport over there) and every european country. If any one can name me any sport that is played throughout the world, yet is only telivised in one country, i will be supriesed.
Then finally the sport of bowling pulls in over $250,000,000 a year, times that over 4 years and you have over $1,000,000,000, and yet we ask the question where does that money go? surly it can't all go just to one organisation, and if it did, how much do you think it would cost to purchase telivision rights?
In closing i ask you this, do you love your sport? At the rate we are going the game of ten-pin bowling is decresing more and more every year, the junior leauge i used to bowl in, 9 years ago had over 30 bowlers in it and that was just one of the two saturday leauges, to day it has less than 8 members. At the rate we are going our sport as we know it will be reduced to soical bowlers or even worse, non-existant, please don't let this happen, television broadcast is the only way we can get this great sport of ours back up on it's feet. I am intending to put together a petition (i think thats how you spell it, if not the thing where you get everybodys signature, on a piece of paper and send it in
) and send it in to all the networks and cross my fingers, but i can't do it along, please reply to this or send me an e-mail and let me know that u are interested, i thank you for your time, and keep on bowling!!!
Hi there, for those of you who don't know me,my name is james, a young bowler from Perth, WA. ten-pin bowling has caught a bad wrap in the past, people claiming it to be not a sport, but a hobbie, these people are known as social bowlers. like it or not the game of ten-pin bowling is classified as a sport, and always will be.
Many of you have never heard of Fairlanes bowling center, but they have a great web-site (by the way it's www.fairlanes.com.au) on this site they have a section on ten-pin bowling facts, some of them are as follows
1:Approximately 3 million people bowl each year making tenpin bowling the fifth most played sport in Australia.
2:Tenpin Bowling Australia, with nearly 113,000 members is the ninth (9th) largest sports organization in the country.
3:Tenpin Bowling Australia is the largest tenpin bowling organization outside of the United States.
4:Although difficult to estimate the tenpin bowling industry in Australia is worth more than $250 million per year.
Starting with the first point, 3 million people play the sport, making it the 5th largest sport in Australia, now you think about it, 5th largest and it is not even telivised, think of the amount of members we could get into the sport if the games was telivised.
Then onto point 3 outside of America, Australia has the bigest bowling bowling organisation in the world, now think about that, we are bigger than japan, malaysia, singapore (i have traveled to these countries and believe me bowling is a huge sport over there) and every european country. If any one can name me any sport that is played throughout the world, yet is only telivised in one country, i will be supriesed.
Then finally the sport of bowling pulls in over $250,000,000 a year, times that over 4 years and you have over $1,000,000,000, and yet we ask the question where does that money go? surly it can't all go just to one organisation, and if it did, how much do you think it would cost to purchase telivision rights?
In closing i ask you this, do you love your sport? At the rate we are going the game of ten-pin bowling is decresing more and more every year, the junior leauge i used to bowl in, 9 years ago had over 30 bowlers in it and that was just one of the two saturday leauges, to day it has less than 8 members. At the rate we are going our sport as we know it will be reduced to soical bowlers or even worse, non-existant, please don't let this happen, television broadcast is the only way we can get this great sport of ours back up on it's feet. I am intending to put together a petition (i think thats how you spell it, if not the thing where you get everybodys signature, on a piece of paper and send it in
!!
