Is This ‘the Greatest Bowling Blooper Clip of All Time?’
- Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:26am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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It’s the kind of clip that most likely lives on thousands of home video cameras across the country. And it probably involves a lot of uncles and fathers, not professional bowlers. What am I talking about? I’m talking about the clip of professional bowler Josh Blanchard tumbling over himself while trying to take a shot during an ESPN-televised bowling event.
Here’s how it went down:
Thought it was funny? Well, it seems no one at the event did. Yahoo! picked up on that (and noted the clip will become the best bowling blooper of “all time”):
The most amazing part is that nobody laughs! Not the fans, not the announcers, not the opponents, not the guy himself. To listen to their seriousness, you’d have thought Blanchard had seriously injured himself, not made himself the subject of what will become the greatest bowling blooper clip of all time.
Agree or disagree?
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Comments (135)
Mr.Fitnah
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:49amouch.
Report Post »Yeah_Buddy
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:25pmGet yer azz outta the gutter and get a real job!
Report Post »db321
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:40pmYeah_Buddy
Get yer azz outta the gutter and get a real job!
And dust your self off and get back in the Human Race.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 1:56pmJust let go…?
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:12pmOuch! One time, I actually let go of the ball on the “back swing”…believe you me, those seated behind me SCATTERED! Needless to say, no one wanted to bowl with me for a very long time! LOL
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:04pmdidn’t laugh because they have COUTH-something that is seriously lacking in our society today.
You can‘t understand why people didn’t laugh??? You’re the type to laugh at someone who has an accident? Then you’re one of the many who are socially illiterate.
Report Post »Cause4Liberty
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:24pmOver The LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:32pmI was going to make a comment about this guy keeping his hands off his ball$, but I decided it might be gutter humor.
Report Post »Thumper
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:42pmMiami he can’t as long as he holds on to the ball it is not a foul
Report Post »Brondo
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 7:18pmI thought bowlers were fat old men who drank berr and smoked cigars.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 7:24pm“You can‘t understand why people didn’t laugh??? You’re the type to laugh at someone who has an accident?”
“Having an accident” and “humiliating yourself in front of cameras during a professional sporting event” are two very different things. The only thing hurt was his pride, and we, as a society, should be ready to laugh at others. In this way, the people do not become an arrogant and pompous people.
In fact, it is patriotic to laugh at people, and it is even more patriotic to be laughed at.
Report Post »Jaimo
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:44pmHey nobody should be laughing, that is serious stuff. I type this with one hand after undergoing shoulder surgery on Friday for a bowling related injury to my rotator cuff. I sympathize with Josh and can’t wait until I can bowl again.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:52pmThe Dude abides.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 7:08amQUICK !
Pass some knee-jerk consumer protections laws!!!
Oh, that’s stupid?
Well, let’s just ignore the Constitution, Congress, and the will of the people, and appoint another czar to create POLICY that will “protect” people from these atrocities!!!
How about some mandatory bowling ball fitment laws?
We could haul him before Congress and spend millions asking if he ever took male hormones (“steroids”) and criminalize him if he has. (But then we can hand female hormones out FREE to 13 yr old girls at school and call them “birth control”)
Okay, off the soapbox…
OUCH ! That had to hurt!
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 8:16amNo, this is the funniest moment in sports history…
http://www.sbnation.com/2012/1/4/2681567/the-greatest-animated-sports-gifs-of-2011
Report Post »foobear
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 6:54amYeah, ouch.
Not funny.
Not surprised the Blaze finds it hilarious.
Report Post »Societal Misfit
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:36amActually as a bowler I have to admit that it is a bit funny when things like that happen that is when you find out the person was not seriously hurt. There are risks with every sport, and yes bowling is a sport. That said as a long time bowler I know and fully understand the potential for injury in this type of sport in fact I have a few myself. What it came down to with Josh is that his thumb hung in the ball and once his foot hit the lane there is no way, I don’t care who you are, that he was not going down. Now was he hurt, well he will be a bit sore from falling into the gutter and his lower back hitting the well cover that’s for sure and I do hope that he did not seriously injure his lower back from that. I will tell you from years of experience that when this type of thing happens it is near impossible to hold your balance due to the momentum of the ball. Those of you that would spit out your nachos and spray soda from your nose when this happens are the ones that have never experienced it, if you ever do, and I pray that you don’t. then you will not find near as funny as you did and know I don’t have my panties in a wad so to speak, I just know how bad it can hurt although most of us long time, and even those professional bowlers will recover, and yea the ego does get bruised but like life you take your lumps and move forward.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:41pmYep, I have sent many a ball up in the air before it hit the lanes. Sweat or rosin bags are a bowlers worse nightmare and if you hands get sweaty or use too much rosin, nothing you do will let the ball go except a stroke of luck. I’ve also used too much baby powder and dropped the ball upon release. I haven’t bowled in quite awhile, but I used electrical tape to add and subtract the fit depending on the change in fingers and conditions of the bowling alley.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:21pmI love nomenclature … the well cover..thanks that was a great description
Report Post »Societal Misfit
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:03pmI have bowled for years and am now bowling left handed due to some physical limitations affecting my right side. For years though I bowled right handed and was aggressive with my release, that is to say I had a slightly high back swing and got a lot of wrist action in the release. One night I had gotten up on the approach and set myself, little did I know that a bowler on the opposing team was using easy slide on his thumb and in overabundance. I start into my approach and as I am coming into the slide and through my swing my feet made contact with the residue which sent both feet up in the air, I got out the ball but when I came down I came down hard and as I put my right hand down to catch myself I rolled slightly and bent my pinky finger completely back over the brace I was wearing, not to mention the hard thump I was hurting pretty good although like Josh I brushed it off and continued the game but not until after I let the idiot that was using easy slide on his thumb how I felt and what I would do if I caught him doing it again. LOL
Report Post »pggarrett
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:29amJosh Blanchard tried to stop before his delivery, but the 16 pound weight had too much momentum and he couldn’t hold up. Once you step over the line, you’re a dead duck, because, for the uneducated, the lanes are oiled on the other side of that line. Ever slipped on the ice, it’s the same kind of deal here. This isn’t funny. People are hurt all the time at bowling alleys because they want to be funny and step over that line and quickly, but too late…realize it’s slick. Concussions, broken ankles and wrists, bruises galore. Yeah, that’s real funny…NOT
Report Post »Xavier_Holden
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:45amI would say that the oiled lane is WORSE than slipping on ice…
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:43pmAnd they make it worse by walking that oil back onto the delivery area. If your shoe sticks on the lanes, you then go flying. Bowlers rely the ability to slide up to the edge, if you can’t slide and your shoe sticks, you can break an arm or leg from the fall.
Report Post »FEISTY
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:19amThank, Glenn. Great informative news item. Lends a lot of credibility to your journalistic vision.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:37amYou forgot to post the link to your site that is better.
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:55amFEISTY, Do you think this story took the place of something more important? You’re an idiot.
Report Post »str8blues
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:12amBeck isn’t a journalist……..speaks highly of your intelligence. If you’re going to bad mouth someone…..know what you’re talking about.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:23amVariety IS the spice-of-life. Everything in life is NOT a scale from one-to-ten to be news-worthy.
Report Post »Getting the fingers stuck in the bowling-ball has crossed many of our minds when bowling. Sounds corny but like to watch bowling because it takes tenacious accuracy once that ball is released and heading for the pins. Since many young people need instant gratification now-a-days, this kind of story is not news-worthy but for the older-crowd….I remember my brother earning a small-wage as a manual-pin-setter. The younger crowd would have a fit waiting for the next bowler after pins were set-up. I am not picking on the younger crowd..just an observation.
last frontier
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:10pmLiten up *****, there will be more news to come, go get a cup of coffee or somthin.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:13pmI love politics as much as anyone
Report Post »but the Blaze has plenty of stupid stories
this one just happens to be about bowling
go check out the one about the Snail
now thats an important News Story
Lighten Up
AlmostaCowboy
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:03pmWow, Fiesty! From most of the replies it looks like you stepped on some sensitive toes, there. LOL!
Report Post »elihu
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:16amSure took the wind out of his sails…
Report Post »Tepeyac
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:57amOld saying..”It’s only funny till someone gets hurt….then it’s hilarious!”. As long as he was able to get up, folks will chuckle, calling an ambulance kinda takes the humor out of it! I’m just sayin….
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:09amThis audience must be full of robots, cuz that was funny.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:46pmOnly people who do not bowl think its funny. Bowlers know it is serious.
Report Post »912er
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:54amI don‘t know how many time I’ve done that and my kids laugh every time… Then they laugh the whole car ride home…
OMG! (Obama Must Go!)
Report Post »Hephzibah
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:54amLooks to me like his fingers somehow stuck in the ball and momentum caused him to fall, not the slippery floor. He‘s lucky he didn’t break his hip. I laugh at silly things all day long, but never did understand the humor in people getting hurt. Well, to each his own…
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:37amBowling a sport? Please!! These guys were the ones that geeked out of sports and hid out at the lanes. For those of you folks that are so tightly wound up and couldn’t get a chuckle out of this, you guys need to go bowling. Not news worthy? Do you hear yourselves. If all your brains can feed on is hard core news then get the heck away from the keyboard. sheeeeesh!!
Report Post »kralspaces
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:53amGolf a sport? Please! Shooting a sport? Please! Wipe-out a sport? Please! It’s all entertainment. Call it what it is. But it was funny.
Report Post »Athinkerinaseaoflibs
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:28amAny activity that you can and are encourged to smoke and drink beer while participating should NOT be considered a sport. Bowling, curling and many other activities fall under this generalization. Most of the time baseball falls under this definition
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:57amThose of you who make fun of bowling (it’s not a sport)
I coach youth bowlers many of whom can’t play what you would call sports.
Special Needs Kids (some with Downs Syndrome) they are amazing kids !
I have a little girl in a wheel chair who bowls every saturday.(with a ramp)
It is the highlight of her week an she’s actually pretty darn good.
Not every kid can play SPORTS but most can bowl.
Best line I ever heard
Report Post »Bowling is like sex
You don’t have to be good at it to have Fun !
Athinkerinaseaoflibs
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:08pmFlipper: I am humbled. Those activites that can be facilited by those with physical challenges are great. I do every now and then bowl a few lines, but I am a dismal bowler. The special olympics is the ONLY cause championed by any of the Kennedy’s worth more than tobacco spit. It is a very good thing.
Report Post »oletiger
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:31amDefinitely to much talc
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:09pmFlipper.
Report Post »Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love bowling. And by the way good on ya for loving and working with kids. That my friend is called“ storing pennies in heaven”. WaaaHoooo!
hersey10
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:27amWait a second , how was there zero laughing when that happened ? I would have choked on my bowling alley nachos and fountain soda in hysterics .
Report Post »rubydee
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:18pmHersey10. I’m laughing more over your post than the video. Just thinking of you spewing chips and pop totally cracks me up in hysterics totally cracks me up!!!
Report Post »MrBoB1951
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:19amCant get hurt bowling?? Ever hit your ankle with a bowling ball just before you let it go???
Report Post »Pain lasts for less than a minute but you’d think you just lost your foot.
gmoneytx
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:53ammore people are hurt bowling than SCUBA diving every year.
Report Post »DetritusScreener
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:09amIt is mildly amusing. I am not a bowler, but it really wasn’t that funny. Maybe a chuckle and “are you okay?”
Report Post »AnAmerican111
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:08amLife Lesson Learned!……………..
LET GO OF THE BALL!
Report Post »Rick300
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:32amIt is not a foul if you don’t let go…
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:44amI was wondering why he didn’t let go. Too bad he slipped. It looks like the lanes are REALLY waxed up. I assume he was trying to stop and reset for another shot. It was slightly funny, until I saw him wincing in pain.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:59amHis thumb was stuck in it.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:07amHow do you get hurt “bowling”?
Report Post »WatchingObama
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:15amRight?! There seems to be a lot of posters this morning with their whitey-tighties all bunched up.
Report Post »THIS IS FUNNY!
When I slip on the ice and I’m ok – it’s funny!!!
Just sayin’…
V-MAN MACE
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:20amSlippery shoes. I hate slippery shoes.
Also…it would help to let go of the bowling ball.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:21pmpour some cooking oil on your hardwood floor then walk across it
Report Post »that will answer your question.
Dave
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:51pmbowling balls can get heavy (and generally are when used by adults). getting a sprained wrist or hitting your ankle/knee (depending on how your body is positioned) is common and hurts like hell. also on the other side of the line the wood is heavily oiled and if you take one step on that with a 16 pound ball having the momentum it gets when you throw it there is no way you can keep your balance and so you will slip and fall and depending on how you land even small falls can cause bad injuries.
Report Post »txwheels
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:05amDidn‘t see anything funny and didn’t see anything news worthy either.
Report Post »BassChick
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:40amsame here
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:02amit’s the desensitization of America by communist Hollywood indoctrinators, 2 decades now of showing clips of people having accidents, even getting seriously hurt, and paying a reward for the one that brings the most laughs. makes it so much easier for people to turn in people they are jealous of/oppose, to walk over a person lying on the ground that has been shot by a dictator’s troops. if you look at ”The 45 DECLARED GOALS of COMMUNIST TAKE-OVER of AMERICA, (1963)” you will be shocked how they have defintely accomplished their list. we laugh at people having accidents and being hurt — and now are so desensitized we are disappointed when the victims are NOT laughed at.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:40pm@BURNTHILLS
Report Post »REALLY ? I did’nt think it was funny
but I don‘t think it’s a Communist Takeover
of America Either.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:53amInteresting for a brief chuckle and that is about all.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:10amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwYB5kyN8k
Report Post »WatchingObama
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:50amBahahahahahaha!
Report Post »I’m sorry. Did I just laugh out loud?
You and I both know there were uncountable smirks and under-the-breath- chukles when that happened.
Really, I am glad he is ok. Because if he was injured this wouldn’t be funny. But all that was injured was his tushy and his ego.
Funny in my book.
WatchingObama
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:10amHmmm, I’m wondering if there are some who have had this type if embarrasing moment before. Come on people! If you can‘t laugh at yourself you’re too tightly wound!
Report Post »It’s ok. You’ll be ok. Really.
Well, I’m going to go back and watch this video again…I need another chuckle. :O)
JACKTHETOAD
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:11amWATCHINGOBAMA, I‘d have to say the sighs of relief that he wasn’t hurt outnumbered the snickers and chuckles by 100 to one. Just sayin’.
Report Post »WatchingObama
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 1:54pm@JACKTHETOAD (Man that was hard to type)
Report Post »Lets think about this for a sec. shall we? A ROOM FULL OF PROFESSIONAL BOWLERS AND BOWLING FANS. Of course your going to have the majority respond like it was an helmet-to-helmet hit in football!
If there were such a magazine like ESPN-BOWLING you‘d see articles on Pro’s who had a hangnail removed!
The Funny Factor of this video clip is at the very least an 8 out of 10! (At least to us non-pro bowlers) –
Just sayin’….
Impenitent
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:48amHe’s got nothing on little Jack Horner…
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:48am.
Report Post »I giggled more when Obama said he was a Re tard…………….
johnsell
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:47amWhat’s “Great” about it? It is certainly not a “blooper” as there was nothing funny or unusual about it, other than he was a professional, so what? That landing had to have hurt.
Report Post »Predator
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:47amSo the Blaze advocates laughing at the misfortunes of others, and/or questioning why other people didn’t laugh at his misfortune. So what are you saying really? That if a downhill skier crashes at 90 miles an hour, the first thing we should do is laugh?
Report Post »Perhaps the blaze should stick with political stories. These kinds of stories just makes you all look like flaming haters.
Gonzo
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:44amThey sould have pulled out the golf cart and driven him out of the alley while he waived at the fans.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:48amMy 9 year old son just asked me if this extreme bowling. We do love our AFV though.
Report Post »WAR PIGS CRAWLING
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:50amThat Sir……..is frigin’ funny.
Report Post »Tdevil_onethree
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:42amNot that funny
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:01amHaving coached Youth Bowlers (YABA,USBC) for 20+ years
Report Post »An worked in a bowling alley
this is NOT FUNNY people can an do get hurt !
I have never seen a PRO do this but have seen many children an amateur’s.
most Pro’s an league bowlers use resin in the thumb hole.(for better grip)
Resin turns to Glue when it gets wet (sweaty hands)
Step over the Foul line You’re going down.
We OIL the Lanes.
JACKTHETOAD
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:35amWhat’s amazing about no one laughing at a professional athlete who almost seriously injured himself at a professional sports event? Maybe it would have been funnier if he broke his back. What a bunch of ghouls.
Report Post »GeneTracy
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:42amI agree with you JACKTHETOAD.Watched the clip three times and didn’t find it particularly funny either.
Report Post »PlowMan
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:44amI didn’t think it was very funny either. I guess it’s all in the way it hits you when you see it. I don’t play or watch but these guys are serious about their profession and I respect that.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:04amit‘s the desensitization of America’s younger generations. they were deliberately taught to find someone being in an accident or hurt as ”funny”
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