I watched this on TV live with my folks. We were really rooting for McCordic! Very cool to see happen!

This is when professional bowling was fun to watch. They actually bowled in a bowling alley and not on set up lanes. I used to bowl Saturday mornings and then come home and watch bowling. I watched it all through the 80s. I have no idea if PBA is even on TV anymore or where to find it.

@drummachine434

2 жыл бұрын

It's on Fox FS1

@bobstewart8032

2 жыл бұрын

@@drummachine434 thank you.

I remember being a kid watching this live.

( 13) years since a perfecto was rolled on national television [ congrats Mr.McCordic ] 🤘🤘👍👍

Wow 30 years ago today always remember that show.

was so happy for Chris Schenkel---his first ever 300 game broadcast, after missing the first 3.

@crgray1979

3 жыл бұрын

Also the first for bo Burton

@foxmccloud7055

Жыл бұрын

And becoming a running joke in the PBA in regards to 300 games.

This was back when a 300 game was really an accomplishment.

I will put that on the list, thanks for watching!

I'm from Houston and I remember watching the live broadcast. Pete McCordic's 300 game was the talk of the Houston bowling community the following week. It was also a feel-good story of sorts considering how depressed the Houston economy had been during the mid-1980s. If memory serves me correct, the McCordic twins, Pete and Paul, have always had stellar reputations.

@RayJacksonbighmw

6 жыл бұрын

#HoustonStrong I guess this hashtag also describes Houston's own Pete McCordic (although this 300 took place 30 years before the floods) as well as the City Of Houston as well. Well done Pete!!! Well done Houston!!! #RESPECT

In This Clip, From 0:00 To 1:34, It Was ABC Sports' The Professional Bowlers Tour: The $125,000 Greater Los Angeles Open Video Open From Late Saturday Afternoon, January 31, 1987.

Mats Karlsson is our teams coach!

McCordic’s 300 was awesome to watch-I remember this telecast vividly and was so excited and happy for him. However, in the Gant-Karlsson match, the messenger that Gant sent at the 7-pin in the 10th frame could have ended up in the parking lot. What an absolute injustice.

Rozin is important, especially in the 80's, when those urethane balls would come back dripping with oil, and the wood alleys sure didn't help.Today a towel is all you need. Wipe, roll. Back then wipe, pack the finger and thumb holes with rosin, and wipe again, or you would drop every other shot, unless you bowled on dry lanes.

WE HAVE IT!!! :D

Ricky Corona's rev. Rate is IMPRESSIVE.

I watched this on tv,Good Stuff

I remember exactly were I was when I saw this live. Up in my game room, on the floor, next to the portable television while I was building lego structures haha! Of course when Pete started doing what he did, I had to stop everything!

@johnseal56

5 жыл бұрын

I used to watch these while playing with various bowling sets in the living room. :) I don't think I saw this particular episode, but I always got a kick out of the rare occasion the machine would break down and you'd see a "stagehand".

@jamesdye8473

3 жыл бұрын

I missed this telecast cause I was bowling in a Military Traveling League and the bowling alley didn’t have a TV! Thanks for posting this video.

Interesting to see how anxious McCordic was. That adrenaline can be difficult to dissipate.

@mrbowling300

9 жыл бұрын

It was amazing he over came it all for 300

@20alphabet

9 жыл бұрын

Yes, the 300 took a heavy toll. Yet I don't want to diminish Karlsson's tremendous game.

@tsnide34

5 жыл бұрын

To add to that: with the limited quality of footage available, you don't get to appreciate how much he actually was shaking. Old, fuzzy video recordings kind of shake themselves, even - so-to-speak. For those of us who saw it live, at least speaking for myself, it's something that REALLY stood out, something I'll never forget, and what made it so extra special. A life changing moment rested on that 10th frame, and he really showed it.

I almost cried for Pete...again. 🎳

@mrbowling300 thank you !!

At a time and day when bowling a perfect 300 game (and especially on LIVE television) actually meant something, after all it had been 13 years between this televised 300 and the last time (Jim Stefanich in Alameda, CA at the 1974 Alameda Open), nowadays, when someone throws one on TV they get jackshit (a mere $10,000 from the PBA for a 300 on ESPN) for it, hell, they don't even get a write-up in the local paper, the technology of today's equipment and pretty much easy lane conditions that have been lowered to a mere cakewalk of a shot out there make it easy for even a low-mid average (150-170) hack to bowl a perfecto. Notice that Pete McCordic was throwing a urethane ball (a Columbia 300 Black U-Dot if my memory serves me right), today's reactive resin balls we players now use for strikes as of 1993, are like (to quote PBA Commissioner Tom Clark) "bowling balls on steroids", or (to quote the late great PBA/USBC Hall Of Famer Earl Anthony) "almost an illegal weapon" and "kind of like the aluminum bat in baseball" as Mike Durbin said at the 1993 PBA Senior Championship telecast on ESPN. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for making our great sport better, but when it comes down to the point where everyone and his brother bowls a 300 game or two or even three times every season in League play, then the integrity of the pure sport of bowling is diminished. And, there are those of us like myself and Hall Of Famer Ernie Schlegel who needed that extra 10-pin carry and feel benefited by the new equipment out there who say the reactive resin balls have actually helped most of us keep competitive out there as we get older down the road (myself 49 years old as of this post).

@20alphabet

8 жыл бұрын

The score, in ANY game, is supposed to measure the participant's skill and technique. When the score inadequately reflects this by means of equipment and conditions, the game is compromised by artificial influences. When these rogue influences are accepted by the governing body, the game's days are numbered.

@Mrbowler300

6 жыл бұрын

Pete mc cordic 1st 300 game since 1973

@jhamlin726

4 жыл бұрын

Go cry elsewhere.

@jhamlin726

4 жыл бұрын

@@20alphabet ok, boomer

@20alphabet

4 жыл бұрын

@@jhamlin726 Okay coomer.

Mats Karlsson puts a tremendous amount of roll on the ball.

I read on google that the gable house lanes closed last year to make room for a 218 room luxury apartment

Fantastic bowling. It takes a lot of composing yourself to get that 12th strike. Poor Wayne Webb, bowls the 2nd highest game in the finals and gets beat by 50 pins.

The Ultra Angle. AMF's Answer to the U.Dot.

It's not very often that the champion wins over $50k less than the 4th place finisher.

My only sanct. 300 was with Ultra Angle, Matts

34:09 going on with the 6 pin? I don’t understand why pete have to wait

@johnseal56

5 жыл бұрын

The pinsetter replaced it off-spot. That mechanic looks smaller than usual next to those pins.

Wayne Webb won this Tournament in great form. My second Spoiler.

The buzz saw would give jesper Svenson a spanking if both were in their prime in 1987.

Mats from Gothenburg Sweden....home of the mighty Entombed!

with the oil pattern today's players are playing, thrust me, still an accomplishment ;)

18:21 "1st perfect game since 73" Wrong. 74

I missed the PTQ "rabbit" at this tournament! 😎

Spolier alert: I didn't know this had a 300 game. Without going back - I swear all 12 were perfectly flush.

I think there been 29 300 perfect game rolled on tv. So there been 25 in the last 34 years

Wow Gable House doesnt look anything like this today. They have GSX machines now

can you please upload the 1987 Firestone Tournament of Champions

One of the few times the tournament winner is upstaged!

It was not just a memorable moment for fans of the Pro Bowlers Tour but also for Chris Schenkel, who finally got a chance to call a 300 game. He missed the other three because he was on other ABC assignments.

@chevybowl1527

4 жыл бұрын

I was getting a haircut at the time so i asked the barber if he could stop until the match was over. He was excited for the perfect game as well.

@crgray1979

3 жыл бұрын

Also the first 300 game call by bo Burton

Pete McCordic's only PBA title was the 1988 Fresno open

@toddmaniatoddmania9844

2 жыл бұрын

He also won in Tucson in ‘88

@ 18:09 the $100,000 shot

can you please upload 1995 pba ac delco classic 1995 pba showboat invitational 1995 pba bud light championship 1996 pba greater detroit open and 1995 pba quaker state 250

mrbowling300 can please upload the 1995 pba ac delco classic 1995 pba showboat invitational 1995 pba bud light championship 1995 indianapolis open and 1996 pba detroit open

❤

19:42 Harry was a pro, he never bowled a 300 ?

How does McCordic miss 3 spares in a Row. My 3rd Spoiler.

McCordic is revved up full tilt on the junk...this dude is whacked out!! Must have main lined it...cool.

@MIKIEEYEZ1975

4 жыл бұрын

Marc Wallace You’re a jerkoff!! Lol 😂😂😂😂😂

30:20 pinsetter way way too fast. Prob still wouldn't have fallen, but far too fast.

Ricky Corona is impressive.

Very cool ..

PETE MCCORDIC SHOOTS 300 GAME AND WINS $100,000 16:46 16:47 17:24 17:25 18:08 @ 18:09 the $100,000 shot

@20alphabet

9 жыл бұрын

Well deserved, too!

mustve been a urethane

$105,500 is not too shabby of a payday lol

@crgray1979

3 жыл бұрын

Bob Benoit rolled a 300 in the title game in 1988. He won 127,000 that day

Ricky 'the Virus' Corona

Pete McCordic bowled awful.That is my spoiler. Sorry.