Though never a sport of Kings, at one point in time bowling occupied a perfectly respectable place in the pantheon of American sports. It has long been one of the most popular participatory sports in America. When Eddie Elias convinced the country's top 33 bowlers to kick fifty bucks into a... Though never a sport of Kings, at one point in time bowling occupied a perfectly respectable place in the pantheon of American sports. It has long been one of the most popular participatory sports in America. When Eddie Elias convinced the country's top 33 bowlers to kick fifty bucks into a communal pot in a banquet hall in Syracuse, NY, in 1958, the Professional Bowlers Association was born. ABC began televising PBA tournaments in 1962, and as the lead in Wide World of Sports, Chris Schenkel's Saturday afternoon bowling telecast was for many years one of the highest rated sports programs on television. Then something happened: America ceased to embrace the portly, middle-brow image the PBA was selling, and bowling got kicked to the curb. The sport and its players, many of whom grew up idolizing the sepia-toned gods of bowling's golden era, found themselves wallowingin the backwaters of the popular imagination, alongside rodeos and tractor pulls. In 2000, three former Microsoft executives scooped up the entire apparatus of professional bowling -- its players, tournaments, trademarks and trophies, all for about five million dollars and assumption of the league's debt. Their stated goal was to save bowling from the brink of extinction and raise it to new heights, or at least put it on par with the Bass Masters tour, which, at current market values, would represent a tidy return on equity. The heavy lifting for this mission falls onto the broad shoulders of a man named Steve Miller, a former top Nike executive who had played for the Detroit Lions and rescued Kansas State football from the NCAA cellar. The film focuses on Miller and four of his charges, professional bowlers at very different places in their careers, and their sometimes funny, sometimes sad adventures on tour as professional athletes - albeit the Rodney Dangerfields of professional sports. -- © Magnolia Pictures 　　译文(2): 尽管保龄球从来不是国王的运动，但它曾一度在美国运动的万神殿中占据了一个非常体面的位【资源囤-ZiYuanTun.Com】。长期以来，它一直是美国最受欢迎的参与性运动之一。当埃迪 · 埃利亚斯说服全国33名顶级保龄球手把50块钱踢进。.尽管保龄球从来不是国王的运动，但它曾一度在美国运动的万神殿中占据了一个非常体面的位置。长期以来，它一直是美国最受欢迎的参与性运动之一。1958年，当埃迪 · 埃利亚斯说服全国最好的33名保龄球手在纽约锡拉丘兹的一个宴会厅里把50美元扔进一个公用的罐子里时，这个职业保龄球协会诞生了。美国广播公司从1962年开始播放 PBA 锦标赛，克里斯 · 申克尔(Chris Schenkel)作为《体育的广阔世界》(Wide World of Sports)的主持人，周六下午的保龄球节目是多年来收视率最高的体育节目之一。然后发生了一些事情: 美国人不再接受 PBA 推销的中产阶级的肥胖形象，保龄球被踢到了路边。保龄球运动及其运动员，他们中的许多人从小就崇拜保龄球黄金时代的深褐色神灵，发现自己在大众想象力的死水中打滚，旁边是牛仔竞技表演和拖拉机拉力赛。2000年，三位微软前高管以大约500万美元和承担联盟债务的价格收购了整个职业保龄球机构——球员、锦标赛、商标和奖杯。他们宣称的目标是将保龄球从灭绝的边缘拯救出来，并将其提高到新的高度，或者至少将其与拜斯大师巡回赛相提并论，按照目前的市场价值，这将代表一个可观的股本回报率。这项任务的重担落在了一个名叫史蒂夫 · 米勒(Steve Miller)的人的肩上。米勒曾是耐克公司(Nike)的高管，效力于底特律狮队，并从 NCAA 的地窖里拯救了堪萨斯州橄榄球队。这部电影聚焦于米勒和他的四个手下，职业保龄球手在他们职业生涯中的不同地方，以及他们作为职业运动员在巡回赛中有时滑稽，有时悲伤的冒险——尽管是职业运动中的罗德尼 · 丹杰菲尔德。木兰影业公司