If you didn’t understand how the Badger lane pattern can be 52 feet of frustration, Tuesday night’s CBS Sports Network telecast of the PBA Badger Open stepladder finals provided a demonstration.
The longest PBA pattern brings bowling back to the days when a Raisin like me had hair — and used polyester and urethane bowling balls.
On many patterns back then, the proper way to play the lanes was a “fall back” shot where the ball basically went on a straight line to...