This Makes Bowling Look Exciting

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Well today I screwed on our newly purchased Texas license plates.  For those of you still in Indiana, this is twice as much work as you are thinking.  In Texas, you have 2 plates per car.  One is for the front and one is for the back.  This was even more work since there were no holes in the front of our minivan.  We still don't have our driver's licenses yet but at least our cars are Texans now.

Since I have signed up for DirecTV, I have many more channels now then I did back in Kokomo with our cable provider there.  Mathematically this should give me more things to watch but I am here to tell you that it is not the case.  Now it does take me longer to flip through all the channels but I have spent most of my TV viewing time this week watching reruns of Who's Line Is It Anyway (both US and UK versions) and reruns on the Food Network.  Another thing that I could watch is poker.  It is on both ESPN channels as well as several other channels like The Travel Channel.  I have some friends who play poker and I will admit that I did try a few hands online the other night with play money (I "won" $150 in 3 minutes and then quit).

When I think of sports that I would not like to watch on TV, poker is toward the top of the list.   It is way behind the all time leader, fishing.  If others were to build a similar list I am sure bowling would be in their list.  Being a former professional bowler, I actually like to watch bowling.  One of the casualties of the move to Texas was my collection of VHS recordings of PBA telecasts.  I must have had 30, 6 hour tapes full of PBA shows from the 80's and 90's that I gave to a friend of mine.  He has really enjoyed re-watching the older telecasts.  Exciting stuff!  No really!

Anyway, I actually enjoy watching poker, but not playing it.  I think it all has to do with the production of the show and interaction of the play by play announcers.  The PBA has higher ratings recently and I know they have spent a lot on improving their image.

But trust me, there is no way you could make fishing exciting.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon