The year before the reactive resin which changed the bowling world

1:26:51...You can hear someone in the announce booth say "He goes Brooklyn!"

This is unbelievably random, but that's Karl Ravech from ESPN @ 0:01 when he was still doing local news. Right before his break with ESPN. Blink and you'll miss it 😅

The many looks of David wiseman.

Imagine going Brooklyn to win the US Open...

Robert Lawrence puts a tremendous amount of roll on the ball.

@vanni9283

2 жыл бұрын

With 5/8" of reverse pitch in his thumbhole, it enables him to get out of the ball very quickly. Virtually no loft at all.

@bobby_c7671

2 жыл бұрын

So do I!

1:26:47 best break in PBA history??

@mpup54

5 жыл бұрын

Unbelievable...I didnt remember the finish quite like that but I did remember who had won

Love Thayers style!

@tripswithtom

Жыл бұрын

Great bowler but was a big dick in person even more of an ass when u bowled on tour with him like I did

Thanks for posting this match. I’d forgotten how great bowling was back before the stupid resin balls ruined the game. The one guy used the same ball all week and almost won the US Open. Nowadays you’re going to have to lug 4-6 ridiculously expensive balls that will die after 100 games or so just to average 200. ABC was a way better governing body than the stupid ass USBC. The tv coverage was better back then, the bowlers were better, the announcers way better than the Fox clowns. Hell, even the commercials were better back then. Bowling is too expensive and frustrating nowadays, and I’m glad I quit watching it and playing it.

@bobbyricigliano2799

10 ай бұрын

I stubbornly continued to use urethane balls through at least 2015, which was the last organized league I bowled in. I found a new black U-Dot on eBay and used it for 10 years. My first (of only 2) sanctioned 300 games was with a second hand blue Hammer. Resin balls seem like they are designed for people with no finger or wrist strength, as they just flip over and hook uncontrollably as soon as they hit the lane.

@bobbyricigliano2799

10 ай бұрын

I despise synthetic lanes too. The approaches are like ice skating rinks. If I was learning to bowl today, I'd have a short approach with little to no slide. A long, 5 step approach with a slide gave me hell bowling on synthetics approaches. You can't concentrate on mechanics and accuracy when you feel like you are going to fall on your ass every shot.

@bobbyricigliano2799

10 ай бұрын

Back in the 80's, we hung around Gable House Bowl during the PBA qualifying rounds. Supposedly, if you volunteered to move stuff around as free labor for the PBA, you could potentially get used unwanted balls as "payment." Sure enough, Brian Voss comes around a corner and says "Anyone want a Purple Angle?" For a broke junior bowler like me, a once drilled premium ball with maybe a couple games on it was a windfall. Good times.

@lumberlikwidator8863

10 ай бұрын

@@bobbyricigliano2799 I hear you. Nowadays you have people that throw a weak spinner with a 5-inch diameter track and they can just kill the pins with the new balls.

@lumberlikwidator8863

10 ай бұрын

@@bobbyricigliano2799 Nice going, I knew a guy that had one of Tom Baker’s old balls. I can’t remember what kind of ball it was, though!

2:56 this is from last year

Holy “S” Brooklyn wins

the first, semi final, and title matches were exciting and close

@douglasharris5216

4 жыл бұрын

Andrew Phillips asswipe

@robertblaney5033

Жыл бұрын

How exciting & close were they 🤪

Mark Thayer: 279 Bob Learn Jr: 253 Robert Lawrence: 245 Mark Thayer: 177 Robert Lawrence: 196 Amleto Monacelli: 186 Robert Lawrence: 226 Scott Devers: 221 Lawrence Wins!

@douglasharris5216

4 жыл бұрын

Thomas McCarrick asswipe

@thomasmccarrick4169

4 жыл бұрын

Douglas Harris, you seem like the kind of person to not own any asswhipes

@dbkparm

4 жыл бұрын

You're a chunk of shit.

@JSmith-zr2ve

3 жыл бұрын

Thomas McCarrick You’re a douche.

robert lawrence got some major breaks including a brooklyn strike on his second shot in the 10th frame to win the BPAA US Open

@JSmith-zr2ve

3 жыл бұрын

James Satchwill That’s all he does. Thomas McCarrick is the same guy.

@JSmith-zr2ve

3 жыл бұрын

@James Satchwill lol

@bobby_c7671

2 жыл бұрын

He's lonely....leave him be : )))

@robertblaney5033

Жыл бұрын

He lives in his mom’s basement

@robertblaney5033

Жыл бұрын

Is that Robert Lawrence’s real hair ?? It looks like a wig to me 😳

the semi final match was low scoring

@robertblaney5033

Жыл бұрын

How low scoring was it ? 😂🤪