No Faith in the Moral Standards of the Players as a Group

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by notcasesensitive

This conversation is only slightly less ridiculous than the punk rock bowling conversation I've been witnessing on facebook... (so here it is)

A few years ago I bowled in a punk rock bowling league (note: I am not now, and I have never been, into punk rock). I got into it because a friend of mine is friends with the woman who runs the league. As a result, I made some punk rock friends (with varying degrees of punk rock cred, but all of whom seem more punk rock than GGG now) and I'm still a member of their group page on facebook. There are leagues all around the west coast and they get together annually for a big tournament in Vegas.

This year a team from my old bowling league won the tournament in Vegas. But then the people running that tournament decided that the team had cheated and made a big stink on the tournament facebook page trying to embarrass these guys into giving the money back. Based on everything I've read, it is not clear to me that the team intended to cheat, but according to the PRB tourney organizers, the team captain sent an inquiry about submitting a team with one really good bowler, one pretty good bowler and two not good bowlers (avgs 201, 160, 120, 115). The league has a rule against professional or semi-pro bowlers bowling, so I think the team captain was just concerned about the 201 bowler. The people running the league said that team would be fine. But when the team was actually entered the averages were different -- it was the really good bowler (ave actually 198), two pretty good bowlers (168, 170) and one bad bowler (120). Now the people running the league are citing that old email to say the team cheated...

But the bigger story behind it is that the guys who won aren't really punk rock. These guys look like they would follow Nickelback. If these guys looked the part and were more into the punk rock festival that accompanies this bowling tournament, I don't think the people running the league would have any problem. So the whole thing has degenerated into exactly the same thing this argument has degenerated into. Who is punk rock enough. I think it might be kind of amusing to watch if it weren't so pathetic.

"you're (GGG) not punk and I'm telling everyone;
save your breath I never was one."

Jawbreaker- Boxcar