Congratulations to all Rocky Bowlers

Rocky Bowlers,

This bowl season erupted with a huge bang, with Arizona coming from behind in such dramatic fashion, and seamed to whimper out even before Notre Dame punted the ball a third time in 6 plays.  But we had some GREAT games in between, didn’t we?

 

We hope the Rocky Bowl is never about the money but we do offer the same purse each year with the extra going to expenses for the Rocky Bowl party and then charity.  Congratulations go to the top six finishers below.

2012-2013 Rockybowl Winners
Place	Name	Payout
RBS Charity	Multi Care Health Foundation "Hospice   Uncompensated Fund"	$425
Champion	Steve "The Soss" Sossamon	$500
2nd	Bret "Don't call me Bart" Bowe	$250
3rd	Ray "Ray" Eppley	$150
4th	Bill "TuTu" Tanay	$100
5th	Thomas "Not a brother" Wright	$75
6th	Fredrick "Mr. Steak" Rosin	$50
BBreeze	Fredrick "Mr. Steak" Rosin	$50
Toilet Bowl	Brad "Brother Who Works" Erickson	$20

We had several good suggestions of where the donation could be given this year and chose a Multi Care Health Foundation that offered Hospice care to one of our long time bowlers who passed this year. 

Barbara “Bling” Mason loved each and every bowl game played year after year.

We will miss her.

The commissioners hope that our mission was meet which is watch meaningless football games with passion, have fun, enjoy the banter and have a little hope that this is the year you will finish on top.  

We hope to bowl with you next year and stay tuned as we expect some changes next year to add extra opportunities to cash in next year with more winning options.

Until then;

Rocky, Jim and Doug 

“Be Safe Out There”

This is it Rocky Bowlers ...

You made it to the Fictitious BCS National Championship game. Rocky bowlers can rest easy that our Champion was decided before this farce of a game.  But, there is still plenty of prize money to be decided tonight.  So, you will need to stay tuned.  The Final results for both outcomes of the game 2nite have been posted on the Blog.

Congratulations to Steve "The Soss" Sossaman, aka "I'm Sauced man".  That's really what it takes to win the Rockybowl after all. Just a few drinks and few picks with precision placement of the 35 and the 1.  Maybe Steve could share his strategy with us.  Dart Board?  Spin the bottle?  Some sort of drinking game to determine winners?  In any event, all he needs to really do is bring up the Rockybowl website and say "Scoreboard baby, scoreboard".

And then there is the Toilet Bowl winner, Brad "Brother who works" Ericksen who edged out Kendall "It's good to be a Viking' Dunkley and CJ 'Showtime' Stafford for the bottom spot.  "Showtime" becomes the first Rockybowler on record to finish 2nd one year and 2nd to last the next. Sorry, no prize money for being the second to last loser. 

What can I say about 'Brother who Works",  the first Rocky Bowler to win the Bobbi Breeze, The overall Rocky bowl Championship and the Toilet Bowl.  You are good man, thanks for playing. He predicted his fate at the Rocky Bowl party, and he was right.  He was wrong about Wisconsin winning the Rose Bowl, but hey, he won the Toilet Bowl.  It sounds like he needs to take some time off of work next year to make his picks,  Or perhaps he can ask his twin brother "Underworked" to make his picks for him.

As always, we hope you have all had a good time participating in the Rockybowl and following the blog and Tweets.  If you didn't follow @Rockybowl this year on Twitter, there is always next year to make it into the social media scene.

If you have any suggestions for making the Rockybowl better in the years to come, please Tweet to @Rockybowl with hashtag #rockybowl, add your comments to this blog post (come on you can do it) or send your comments and feedback the old fashioned way to rockybowl@live.com.  Sorry "Sis", no letters sent through  the US Postal service will be accepted.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Jim "TopCoug" Stafford.

Let the Games Begin

The big day has finally arrived where most bowlers will pack it up and head home. A few of us will however stand up and shout," I AM MAD AS HELL AND AM NOT GOING TO LOSE ANY MORE".  I am planning on making my run today and with 176 points played on today's games I will be 6 for 6 and near the top of the bowlers.  BOOK ON IT

Yesterday was a tragic day for my friends who back USC,  with only 7 bowlers predicting the low that USC would finish the year on.  I love the way Kippen has taken a top program and ruined it, similar to a UW coach I have sworn never to say his name again. 

As you look at the scoring sheet, be sure to view the real page and that is "Scoring Sheet PP', which is Points Possible.  The bowlers at the top of this sheet are the real players and leaders. 

I do want to congratulate "Mr Steak" who showed some real muscle to win the Bobby Breeze award but with one day in the books after this great achievement he has failed to keep up the pace.  Now as you view the reader board do not worry about Bill Tannay, as any bowler who's name is "TuTu" will never win this contest, the commissioners will see to it, we can change numbers and will.  Notice Brad "the brother who works" Erickson who won both the Bobby Breeze and overall Rocky Bowl just two years ago as a rookie is VERY likely to be in the winnings again, but in last place with the Toilet Bowl trophy.  (He did travel from Minnesota to Seattle to attend the Rocky Bowl Party so I will be gentle on this loser)

However your picks fall today the commissioners hope you are enjoying you bowling and have a Happy New Year.

Rocky Bowl 2013 Shirt are introduced‏

Rocky bowlers, once again the GREAT Rocky Bowlers Brady "Indiana Jonesing" Wiebeck and Brett "Hot Shot" Wiebeck have outdone themselves and generously has donated Rocky Bowl Shirts to the Bowlers.  Previous years shirts have been seen in Thailand, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and places we can not even mention. 

How do you get one, you ask?????? This last year Rocky Bowl shirts, as modeled by Kim Kardashian, can be obtained by Rocky Bowlers at the RBS Party 2nite.  Come to the Rocky Bowl Party and you will likely be wearing one.  We have also sent these shirts out to out of town Rocky Bowlers but never to in town bowlers who do not attend.

Even if you can not get by for the evening, we will be bowling from early morning right into the night. 

Rocky Bowl Party address is   12615 160 Ave SE Renton, WA

If you need directions please use Bing maps, or if you get lost call, 206-954-5664.

Looking forward to seeing you 2nite.  And once again special thanks to our friends in Nebraska for these masterpieces.  "Go Cornhuskers".

The Commissioners

Rocky Bowl Party

Rocky Bowl Party Saturday 29th

The afternoon and evening is fast approaching and it is obvious that once again, my picks SUCK. One thing I hope is a winner this year is the Rocky Bowl Party.   The party will be on Saturday with games starting as early as 9am but the party will officially start at 2:30 anticipating half time of the Kraft Fight Hunger bowl, featuring, Navy and a Pac 12 favorite Arizona State.  We will be setting up all day so please if you want to help or just watch football with other Bowlers please come by anytime.  We will be serving dinner after 6:00 and prior to the start of the Buffalo Wild Wing bowl featuring Michigan State and Texas Christian. 

We will once again ask that you bring your own beverages, cigars, and WARM cloths.  We do spend a great deal of time outside with the comfort of heaters and fires but coats, hats and gloves are sometime welcomed.  There is room in the house as well and outside to be part of the bowling.

Dinner is always a masterpiece of many different chefs and if you would like to bring something to share please do.  We will be having steaks, salads, potatoes and many other tasty delights.  Jim, will make his famous Caesar's (garlic) salad something to die for, that is you will die once someone breaths on you after eating all of the garlic.

If you are considering coming but do not know a lot of the Bowlers, we are friendly and welcome you to join us.  The leader will be wearing the yellow jersey and is likely to change many times during the day as we have a very close contest at this point. 

We will be announcing the charity our extra proceeds will be go to, and a surprise contest for anyone who paid the extra $5.00.  A mistake was made on the entry sheet so some have paid $25.00 rather then the fee of $20.00 therefore it must be returned so the easiest way is to make and additional prize for those who read and paid the extra money. 

Please if you would planning on coming it is great to get an head count so please reply (DO NOT REPLY TO ALL) to this email for a head count.

We look forward to meeting all of the old as well as the new Rocky Bowlers this Saturday.

The Commissioners.

Rockybowl... It's too early to give up... 23-dec-2012

Well... don’t despair... there’s still plenty of time to rise/fall in the rockybowl..

Grant (last years ultimate loser) is currently 47th... give him time.  Has anyone seen Too Short to Win or Flexxy?

 

While nothing is in stone... Kevin “Viking” Dunkley, Brad “One-Percenter” Erickson, Rocky “Even a Blind Squirrel” Long, and Carson “Boiler” Potts have the inside track to toilet seat(s)... Ouch!  What happens when we have a tie at the bottom?  Do we separate the trophy like a wishbone?

 

The “front loaders” (those players who give the majority of their points pre-Bobby Breeze) often start off strong, and like a pimply teenager... end early.

1 "Ray Ray" Eppley                   534  [currently 11th]

2 CJ "Showtime" Stafford             529  [currently 77th]

3 Jim "Flexxy" Aitken                522  [currently deceased]

4 J.P. "The Third" Pendergast        522  [currently  5th]

5 T "Too Short to Win" 2010 RB Champ 515  [currently in jail]

6 Kevin "Squeeler" Obrien            507  [currently 43rd]

 

Toilet Bowl Champion 

95 Grant "TopDawg" Lockhart           281  [currently 47th]

 

 

Go Virginia Tech!

 

 -- Skaarup

 

The Twitter Myth, Everyone is doing it

Commissioners --

 

You keep telling us about the Utopia that is Twitter...

 

I did some research (Business Insider), Over 360 Million “registered” users, of which Twitter says only a fraction are in daily use... some estimates are as much as 92% of all twitter accounts are fake or “tweet farms” used to boost accounts.  Outside analysts show more than 100 Million users following nobody, not even themselves.  The WSJ (capitalistic rag that it is) leaks a little info in a recent article  “With Instagram, Facebook Spars With Twitter”  (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-spars-twitter-040100564.html) that Twitter has pared down it’s fake accounts to a mere 200M “active” accounts...  (at least one login a month)... and that daily users are 6.87Million.  They waste, on average, 146 minutes a day. um... That’s 2 Hours 24 minutes a day (less the 2 minutes they use updating their status from “in the bathroom” to “in the kitchen now...”).

 

Scraping away even more deadweight... people who aren’t checking on Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber (I gots the fever!), Kate Middleton (Duchess of Cambridge), Kate Perry (whoever she is), Rihanna (is that a disease?  is it contagious?), Oprah Winfrey, Nicki Minaj  (an anagram for “Jamin’”), Paris Hilton, Kanye West, Charlie “I’m Always Winning!” Sheen, or Jimmy Fallon... that leaves...

 

Three Dudes running a football pool.

 

Sock puppets...

  

 

All this technology hurts my brain!

 

Way to go BYU COUGS!

 

-- Skaarup