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Firestone Bowl a Rama in Akron, Ohio hosted this televised bowling series during the 1965-1966 season. Here is one of the final matches of this series. It features two titans in the world of professional bowling. Nelson Burton Jr. vs Dick Weber!
I always thought Nelson Burton Jr. was one of the best color commentators on the old PBA shows.
That’s probably because he’s the first you became familiar with, and it’s been downhill since then.
Bo was also easy on the eyes
Burton helped me with his tips
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I remember that there was a half hour version of the show that aired when it began midway through the second game. From a FYI standpoint, I have a friend that appeared on Championship Bowling who has several 8 X 10 photos from it displaying what the “set” looked like behind the scenes, complete with bogus walls for cameras.
You may be thinking of another bowling show at the time, “Bowling Stars” which was only 30 minutes long. I used to hate that show, because like “CB” the bowlers rolled three games to a match, but “Bowling Stars” would just show you the scores from the first game, then the score of the second game through 7 frames. then you’d see them bowl the rest of the match. What a cheat!!
That’s because the USBC won’t give anything now for a 300 game, which I can understand with thousands of them being rolled each year. Before, when they were giving out gold rings they wanted to make sure everything was on the up and up.
pablo, you’re wrong about that. The USBC will give out a 300 ring but only one time.
cool to watch. They aren’t talking about oil patterns or using 50 different balls.. just roll that solid black ball down the lane and write that score with a pen.
bonnie johnson Yes, and the colored people knew where their place in society was.
Back then it was skill and technique. The participant was the paramount rather than his equipment.
20alphabet It’s kind of funny how one bowler has dominated over the past decade. After all, the pro bowlers all have access to great equipment. Yet the same guy keeps winning most of the majors. Must be luck.
@Sludge
Hardly
@20alphabet Belmonte’s record in recent history is as dominant as anyone’s ever, really.
Interesting how much smoother Burton’s release was a decade later. He was famous for an effortless style and I always figured it was a natural strength of his, but he must have put in a lot of work improving it.
Check out Burton Jr in the late 70’s and early 80’s . He had a set of guns!!
great bowling by some greats of all time I had never saw before
thanks for shareing those two great bowlers.
I would love to see the Legends reaction to two handed bowling.
I would like to see burton and weber try to score on today’s conditions.
@Sludge Why most of today’s bowler’s skill set comes right out of the box,resin saved today’s bowler’s but the down fall is a big bunch of artificial scores. Fact.
Nostalgia is one of the greatest enemies of the truth.
Burton left the tour for six months once because he couldn’t compete on the condition at the time.
Marshall Holman was a guest commentator just last week.
This is the show that got me to fall in love with bowling. Every Sunday at noon when I was a boy. Brings back the best of memories!
The bowlers nowadays compared to the bowlers back then the old bowlers were better
Old v. New bowling… Old relied on shot making ability only. A consistent game was required to get results. New relies on ability to apply power into these over aggressive balls. I can watch the pros spray the lane with shots and still get results. Rotation and speed is the new game as consistency has taken a back seat.
The only constant is change.
These 2 didn’t look terribly consistent here to me, struggling to find pocket, missed headpins, easy spares blown.
Interesting to hear Nelson Burton Jr. referred to as a “youngster”! 😄
Back then he was in his early 20’s and was one of bowling’s rising stars.
They referred to him as Nellie too not Bo.
Great video Irish, you wouldn’t happen to have the next week of this show posted do you? If you do I can’t find it on YouTube
My man could surely put u to sleep with that voice!!
Fred yelling “no no!” on Bo’s 10th frame Brooklyn. Nice….😂.
Lol, times really have changed. Look how people dressed up to go watch professional bowling back then.
@Nelson Porter if bowling now is so easy then why arent you on the pro tour?
@Yung_Hoffy Because I choose NOT to be. I averaged 215 for 7 years in my last league. But Im a family man and that’s priority #1.
@Nelson Porter you averaged 215 on a house shot. You really think you could hang with pros on way tougher patterns? Lol
@Nelson Porter Yeah, 215 wouldn’t cut it nowadays, or 25 years ago for that matter
@Yung_Hoffy Yeah I could! I shot 780 and WON a Pro-Am, and I beat 3 TOURING PROS!
Lol bo looks like he’s 12. Thanks for the post, funny.
Wow such a different time
Thanks for showing these great videos.. You really needed to pay attention to lane conditions..Back in the day when you were a God if you bowled a 300 game in league play!
Burton Jr bowling dad in ’66 and bowling Pete in ’84. Bo Burton Jr is freakin awesome.
Two of the classiest professionals in the history of the sport. That being said, Weber was so pissed at the brooklyn and the nose dive tripped four in the center of Burton’s game three 5 bagger he wouldn’t shake Bo’s hand following the post match interview.
Before we had resin we had dirt off the shoe sole.I still have this habit today, makes for messy pants.