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piequat said:Well i'd have to say the one thing that sticks out for me is media coverage, or lack thereof.
Yes, thats true, anything to do with tenpin bowlind is simply ignored by the media, against popular opinion (at this site at least), the game simply is not popular enough, it is percieved by the Mr and Mrs joe Average as nothing more than a social activity, you would be hard pressed to find someone off the street who has never bowled league to consider the game as a sport.
The limited media exposure the game does get, is generated by T.V commercials advertising for school holidays, the thing which stands out for me about these commercials is how the game is portrayed...........it's basically a cartoon, animated pins shaking in fear of a animated ball, a lane board comes loose and catapults the ball into the pins...................hardly appealing, how can the serious or not so serious sportman consider the game as a competition sport, is it any wonder the game is not considered a legitimate sport by the general public of Australia?
The commercial T.V stations and the ABC have broadcast Tenpin bowling on a number of different occassions over the last 3 decades, all with the same result. Not enough veiwers tuned in to watch, if your a non-bowler, watching bowling on T.V isn't very appealing, in fact it is extremely boring, but that could be said about a lot of sports shown on t.V which do indeed prove to be popular veiwing for the non-competitor..........for example Golf or Lawn bowls, not exactly riveting T.V, however very popular.
What about motor racing, cars going around in circles, not very exciting again, yet very popular on T.V..maybe everyone is waiting for the big pile up?
Simply put, Tenpin bowling has a image problem with the average Australian, how do you change the image of a game? What's needed?, what about what Kerry Packer did for the boring game of 5 day test cricket? Changed it completely!