Author Topic: Is an amateur wearing a PBA jersey wrong? (Read 16985 times)

JessN16 · « **on:** March 27, 2008, 01:51:48 PM »

This came up on the Lane #1 forum but I think it needs it's own thread. Apparently, there is something wrong with amateurs wearing PBA gear to bowl. Here's my post from over there:

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This is a perfect example of how the PBA doesn't get it.

You can buy PBA jerseys on PBA.com. Those jerseys are marketed towards fans and amateur bowlers. If they weren't, they wouldn't be for sale in a public section.

So now I'm an amateur with two PBA jerseys in my closet. I can't wear them to work. I don't want to wear them to cut grass; they're too nice for that. So where do I wear them? To bowl, of course!

Oh wait, I can't do that. I'm a *POSER* if I do.

Here's what a couple of you don't get: If I wear a jersey to bowl in league, and people see a little "PBA" logo on my shirt -- where it was sewn at the factory before I even bought the da*n thing -- they might ask me what that means. They might ask me if they can see it on TV sometimes. That might open up the opportunity to market the PBA to someone at no cost to the PBA. Who knows?

I don't claim to be a pro, but at least once a month, I bowl league wearing a bought-it-off-PBA.com PBA jersey. Unlike AK47, I don't have my name on the back. I don't have any extra patches at all; I just have the blank shirt.

You know why? BECAUSE I'M A @#&^&#$ FAN OF THE PBA. I'm the guy that you PBA guys need to have in your corner if you want your tour to survive. Because without me and other amateurs who are also fans, your tour is T-O-A-S-T. That's the way ALL professional sports in this country work.

We're not posing, we're trying to help. We're trying to be fans. No one sees guys playing in a church softball league wearing A-Rod jerseys and thinks they're really MLB baseball players. No one is going to watch me bowl for more than five minutes and think I'm a PBA player, either.

So if it's wrong to own these jerseys, take it up with your own organization. Tell them to quit selling and marketing these things online. If it's such a privilege to own your gear, quit making it available.

Or, you could take a step back and realize that what you call "posing" is what some of us call "paying homage to people better than us."

Jess

302efi · « **Reply #31 on:** March 31, 2008, 01:18:21 AM »

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So now I'm an amateur with two PBA jerseys in my closet. I can't wear them to work. I don't want to wear them to cut grass; they're too nice for that. So where do I wear them? To bowl, of course!

Oh wait, I can't do that. I'm a *POSER* if I do.

Yes you are...LOL

If my team was bowling yours theres no doubt that we would be cracking jokes!

"Oh look, theres Walter Ray !"

"Wow its Chris Barnes !"

HAHAHAHAHA....ROFLMAO !
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I will head to my local pro shop. Right after I buy it online.

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JessN16 · « **Reply #32 on:** March 31, 2008, 01:31:07 AM »

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So now I'm an amateur with two PBA jerseys in my closet. I can't wear them to work. I don't want to wear them to cut grass; they're too nice for that. So where do I wear them? To bowl, of course!

Oh wait, I can't do that. I'm a *POSER* if I do.

Yes you are...LOL

If my team was bowling yours theres no doubt that we would be cracking jokes!

"Oh look, theres Walter Ray !"

"Wow its Chris Barnes !"

HAHAHAHAHA....ROFLMAO !
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I will head to my local pro shop. Right after I buy it online.

When faced with a difficult situation, Jesus asks himself, "What would Chuck Norris do?"

Robo-Arm bowlers SUCK...

Edited on 3/31/2008 1:19 AM

Then why does the PBA sell them to fans on the fan site? So we can wash our cars with them?

My shirts have no patches, words or names on it, other than the small black/red/white PBA logo that is on the shirt from the factory.

Considering this discussion has been on two separate forums here and the prevailing opinion is about 50-2 against "poser-hood," I'd say you need to change your clearly incorrect opinion on this issue before people begin to make fun of you, and not the other way around.

Jess

Edited on 3/31/2008 1:40 AM

JessN16 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 31, 2008, 10:54:02 AM »

First of all, you're not reading.

My shirt has no name on it at all, not mine or anyone else's. If that's the basis for your argument, it doesn't exist in my case.

And I didn't even really ask the question looking for debate. I asked it rhetorically because the answer is already clear: There's nothing wrong with it. There never was anything wrong with it. I highlighted the issue basically to show just how silly a notion it really was.

What's most silly about it is the notion that the PBA is somehow a protected species in sports that fans can't wear fan gear. I have respect for the PBA but the PBA is not a sacred entity. If someone wanted to wear a jersey with a pro's name on it, it would be no different than a NFL fan wearing a Donovan McNabb football jersey.

The other issue that should be plain as day is that the PBA needs all the publicity it can get. If anything, every PBA fan on every league needs to wear as much PBA merchandise as possible to help sell the show. I hope to live to see the day that isn't the case but today, it very much is. This argument is laughably one-sided.

Again, if you want to respond to this one, and you're basis this on someone wearing a "Tommy Jones shirt," READ THE POST and realize that I'm not doing that. However, if I did, the PBA should thank me for it, not criticize me for it.

Jess

Fluff E Bunnie · « **Reply #34 on:** March 31, 2008, 11:08:58 AM »

You are talking about the official PBA merchandise off of PBA.com where it is clearly supposed to be marketed toward fans, correct?

http://pba.ultimateathleticstore.com/pba-jersey-bg.html
http://pba.ultimateathleticstore.com/pba-jersey-br.html
http://pba.ultimateathleticstore.com/pba-jersey-red.html

The fans are going to be bowlers. Bowlers bowl. They are bowling shirts... I don't think someone wearing the official merchandise to league would be that much of a stretch and it is weird that it is even an issue.
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JoeBowler · « **Reply #35 on:** March 31, 2008, 11:10:21 AM »

The biger issue is that with there lax entrance policy there are far two many PBA members posing as professional bowlers.

More than half there members should not be considered professional level. And there are many more nonmembers that could be considered professional.

jkiser01 · « **Reply #36 on:** April 23, 2008, 04:15:22 PM »

I think mumzie already posted this info, but I will second it:

ALL bowlers in a PBA regional event have to wear a PBA patch on thier right sleeve, period. Member and non-members. Its a PBA rule.

I have 3 shirts with my name and patches that I use only when I am bowling regionals and I never wear them anywhere else, period..

{quote} Unless the rules have changed a guest is not required to wear a patch. It is an option, as a guest, to wear the patch but not required. Only PBA members are required to wear the patch.

As far as the patch being sticky I find it dumb. If it's to go on a shirt then it makes more sense to have it stitched on.
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strikealot · « **Reply #37 on:** April 23, 2008, 04:21:40 PM »

where did poser i mean Bowling 300 900 go..
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