1980 Legends of Bowling final

[Musicalbowlrkat300]

My least favorite thing is them rolling around and running it out all over the floor. >...> Seriously? You missed the shot, guess your knees didn't realize right to wrong like the audience did ;)

[heine71]

GSN should do a bowling game show...

[QBCNetwork]

I remember this goofy contest as well. So NBC tried to combine bowling with game shows. At least 8 years later, they improved on another bowling contest on SportsWorld called The Great Bowling Shoot-Out (similar to golf's the Skins Game), which went from 1988-1990.

[showtimeman5673]

anybody notice the brand new brunswick 2000 scoring and ball returns as well as the *gasp* synthetic anvilane I lanes??

[beaverpitt]

Some of these camera angles are absolutely horrible

[syntonik]

@beaverpitt

Yeah, but at that time, it was one-of-a-kind, too. Notice how the top part of the curtain is actually gone and replaced with a fiberglass window?

[beaverpitt]

Pat Costello, HA HA HA Lou after the sex change

[beaverpitt]

HA HA HA Tom Baker (Dr. Who). Hell he can warp anything, so wonder he got a strike

[Polishjazzman]

This was during my bowling heyday and I can't believe I've never seen this. What a goofy format. That music tag gets very annoying. But yeah, I wanna see more!

[ColemanMulkerin]

Wow this is good quality video!

[CrankyOldster]

Check out my man Eddie Lubanski with that two-finger ball. :)

[gurowiczw]

Tom Baker looks exactly like Frank Zappa in this show! :O

[ieatjesus]

wow, was thirty thousand a lot of money long ago? that's about the price of my student loans for three years.

[lilwill2kold]

it does sound like a goodson-todman show due to some of the sound cues

[AdamJ617]

Actually, it sounds more like an SNL game show parody. More like Bob Stewart's NBC games in the 1970s.

[leopoldmozart]

MORE!!! I NEED TO SEE MORE!!!!!

Thanks for this one!

[MrLogoman007]

This is Don Pardo speaking for Legends of Bowling.... a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman--- er, NBC Sports Production!

[nickandfriends10]

idc i f u dont believe me and idk why id lie about this but ed lubanski is my grandpa and he still looks exactly like that 2day its neat seeing him on this

[cardshowman]

TREMENDOUS! I love this, Earl, Tom Baker, Donna, all awesome athletes! Of Course, EARL always delivers! Nice and thanks!

[rstp354]

00:15 - the matches were held at the Playboy Club. Earl had the home field advantage!!!!

[ericlub99]

my grandpas the man

[ericcollins81]

this is something that nbc should have put on weekday mornings when they used to have game shows with all those bell and whistles

[palmercomm]

Actually, I believe ABC had a game show with a similar premise.

But this might've been big on ESPN.

[NYDanno85]

I believe it was "Make That Spare."

[palmercomm]

You're right. Do you have any clips of that?

[NYDanno85]

Heavens, I wish I did!

I know they did a special presentation of that toward the late 1980s and there was one version much earlier than that.

[dp92492]

this is great

[StickTweedles87]

The playboy club?!?! Haha this is excellent!!

[NYDanno85]

And the retro synthetic lanes... that's pretty neat, too. I'm still amazed at how deep Tom Baker was playing the left lane - practically sliding in the left gutter. In 1980!

[irishpogi]

I wish you had the other series. Would have loved to see Don Carter bowl.

[irishpogi]

Where in the world did you get this? I loved it!

[NYDanno85]

Gotta love Lubanski with the 2-finger grip on the LT-48!

[leopoldmozart]

I LOVED seeing that old rubber brunswick ball!!! Remember, this is 1980, when you could get the columbia 300 and the yellow dot, and those great composite ebonite balls.

[rallyden]

@leopoldmozart

I still use my LT48!!

Gotta love that buzzer....esp at the end of the program.