The coronavirus has made drastic changes on everyone’s life. Businesses have closed, people are staying home, and the sport industry has cancelled/rescheduled games. While all of this is necessary to keep ourselves and others safe, it is still hard adjusting to these changes. For this blog post, I will be talking about the Professional Bowlers Association’s, or PBA, response to this pandemic.
The reason I wanted to write about this is because I saw a meme going around on social media around the time the NBA, MLB, and other major sports leagues were cancelling their games. In the video you can see people watching and cheering on bowling. This is the first time I had seen bowling get recognition from the masses on social media as a true sport, even if it was just a meme.
Around March 12th, we all heard the news that major sports leagues such as the NBA, MLB, MLS, NHL and more were cancelling their games, and whole seasons, due to the Coronavirus. It wasn’t until March 17th that the PBA decided to cancel all tournaments to help keep people safe during these scary times. That’s almost a week later. This is around the time that the meme was circulating and it was around this time that the bowling tournaments got more recognition on TV and was shown more, since the other sport leagues were cancelled. There are still reruns of past championships and tournaments being played on FOX sports while this hiatus is happening.
Could there be a rise in bowling popularity or is this just a temporary thing that will fade once everything goes back to normal? Tell me what you think! I hope you all are staying safe and adjusting throughout all of this.
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