….Bowling Is A Sport
1. It requires a certain degree of strength. A 10-pin bowling ball can weigh as much as 16 pounds. Given you have to pick up a bowling ball and throw it as many as 20 times during the course of a game - assuming you don’t get any strikes - it can potentially make for a strenuous workout. In fact, according to bodybuilding.com, you can burn up to 214 calories during a one-hour bowling session. You bowl four or five times a week, and we’re talking about 800 to 1,000 calories melting off your body.
2. There’s a scoring system, which makes it easy to determine winners and losers. Unlike other non-sports, there’s no judges grading your technique, footwork, speed of the ball, finish, etc. For more on how to keep score in bowling, click here.
3. An essential part of any sport is making sure you have the right equipment. In bowling, there’s a wide variety of bowling balls, gloves, shoes and bags that could make the difference between winning and losing.
4. Professional bowling is a relatively easy sport to relate to because the bowlers are just regular guys and gals - aside from some pretty cool bowling shirts. One of the best bowlers ever was Earl Anthony, whose glasses and crew-cut made him the ultimate regular guy.
To learn more about the history of bowling, click here.
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March 26th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I agree with your list about figure skating not being a sport but on this I’m going to have to call bullshit, Mr. List.
Any sport that is mainly played while drinking alcohol isn’t a sport. Bowling, darts, billiards, shuffleboard and cards all fall into this category. They’re games, not sports.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Damn, I thought I was going to get away with it. I think you can add curling to your list of sports that involve intra-game consumption of alcohol.
March 27th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Wait, I thought just drinking alcohol was a sport! At least it was when I was in college!