PBA Pro with 60 Year Old Bowling Ball vs Amateur

[@willieyoung7070]

My dad got me into bowling and when he had to stop, he gave me his old ball. I don’t know the exact year it was made, but on the top of the ball it says “1975-1982 Don Carter Performance”. I have the original bag as well. I love that ball! I threw one or two times, just to see it in action. Out of every ball I own, that will be one of the very few I never get rid of. What makes the ball more special, my mom gave me a picture of my dad and his teammates that was taken at a local tournament. The picture is from 1976. My dad is definitely the reason why I continue to bowl and why bowling is a big part of my life.

[@garybryant19]

Awesome

[@TheHouseBowling]

That's a great story. Never get rid of it!

[@AdamStockard]

Keep that ball, that is a great reason to be bowling

[@kenfrank7708]

I got a 16 lb Black Beauty as a 9th grader and had it redrilled for finger tip. It was an old house ball from the 50s I believe based on the logo. Used it in juniors and college in the 70s and won a regional in 80 I think. Just imagine a rubber ball with HK-22 added.

[@milwscruffy]

So if you think modern equipment doesn't make the game ton easier, here's living proof. Now go to wood lanes, 1960-70's oil and use that same ball the entire year because there was nothing else. Back when a 300 was a big deal and 800 was almost unheard of.

[@orange5414]

Back in my day

[@ianhoneycutt3858]

Wood lanes would make the ball hook earlier because they are higher friction tho.

[@wavez_9107]

I get what you’re saying but are you saying you don’t like how the sport has evolved and the new technology?

[@ianhoneycutt3858]

@wavez_9107 No. I love the new tech. But I'm saying it would be easier to climb the hill even back in thr 70s

[@davidhartman5594]

Yes this is true. Equipment is getting better. That's a good thing, that people don't seem to think about in certain ways. When equipment is better and things are "easier", which you still have to be accurate at least moderately, this is also making the sport easier on the body. We don't have to use our wrists and forearms like they used too and even the shoes give us ways to slide more or less for our comfort and bring us longevity. They are helping us bowl better.... longer. Thank you to all bowling companies everywhere! 🙏

[@ripvanrevs]

I threw my dad's Ebonite Tornado a couple months ago. Semi fingertip! I shaped it the first game, completely lost it the second game, then piped it 3rd game. Piping it looked the best.

[@AdamStockard]

My grandpa got me into bowling, I remember being 5 and going to the bowling alley with him every Monday and Wednesday night for his leagues. One day I was sitting in the high chairs and I was trying to watch him throw his bowling ball to watch it shoot from the one board back to the pocket between the 1 and 3 pins and I fell right out of the chair and hit my head on the floor. I got a free bowling rag from the bowling alley to put ice on my head and I still have it to this day. He was the reason I started to bowl and everyone in my family that has watched us both bowl says the way I bowl is identical to him

[@Exc_echoic]

Love your videos packy❤️. I can't wait to watch you during the pba 2025 season

[@CliftonDon74]

Nice one guys! I have a 16lb, rubber Brunswick Black Beauty and it makes a great spare ball, but to get it to shape as a strike ball, I need to slow it down to 14mph, get under it, and get max revs on it on the release without spinning it (if that makes sense).

[@scooter7109]

Dang Matt... Packy just called you an amateur... You gonna take that? 😂😁

[@TheHouseBowling]

I think I deserve it!

[@scooter7109]

@TheHouseBowling Hey but who won though 🤔 👀 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Tino-u5h]

Packy the problem with the ball is nobody threw with two hands back in the 60s 😂

[@NibbleSnarf]

Back in the day, you could get any color ball you wanted as long as it was black😂😂

[@Christopher-ic9ig]

Definitely need a PBA tournament where everyone is required to use one rubber ball on hand oiled lanes. That will definitely separate the men from the boyz!

[@caseysmith544]

And nice part is unlike a few other sports you can find old rubber balls for the sport. Lots of other sports the original items like Wood Tennis Racquets are unusable. About the only other sports you can find older designs for are Darts as the old design are still found online and can buy vanes or fletching for Archery to repair these arrows, Archery becuse of a few brands still making older style target equipment as well as being able to find some old wood designed one piece target bows online in good shape, and then Baseball because of reproduction brands.

[@nordattack]

Camera man has a nice smooth stroke. Good win! Packy needs to watch more matches from the 60's to learn how to throw rubber properly. 😂

[@dejabowler873]

Problem is there was no 2 handers back then and the average rev rate was 10 lol so game play is going to be way different Also I love your full roller videos

[@nordattack]

@@dejabowler873 True! I am one of those 1960 style 10 rev bowlers. 😂 Nice to hear you enjoy my old school vids though.

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

demonstrated how much handicap there is with modern tech. makes you realize how good those old scores really were.

[@genoplaysgtag]

I love packy also I just was watching Darren tangs us open qualifying rounds and I saw you

[@genoplaysgtag]

I also bought one of the signed thing

[@Jordankons123]

Happy holidays everyone🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🎊🎊🎉🎉🎊🎉🎉🎊🎉🎊🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@DJILLUSTRATE]

Nice Hat Packy!!!

[@firstivuslastivus3349]

I wish I still had my Brunswick Black Diamond that left a ton of 10 pins... The only way to throw that ball was to get it high flush so it would trip the 4 pin regularly. It also would have been a great spare ball.

[@timwelch5164]

I already thought packy was cool, yes also a Red Sox fan that’s awesome!

[@jc.264]

Would like to see a video match. Packy vs Ryan Barnes with the 60yo ball.

[@jared3535]

For the record: Never too soon, or too late to rag on the Astros

[@Captianmarvelofalbay]

Have you created a video where you bowled on different lane patterns from different eras, especially before 1990?

[@SteveWalsh-hx3ge]

Seeing that Packy is a Brunwick guy, surprised that a newer LT-48 wasnt used

[@pt_36]

Smelled of burning rubber lol. I remember my old Fab black Hammer from I think the 80's smelled of raid bug spray when scuffed.

[@3lweezY_Alaska]

Hoping for a signed shammy.. just ordered mine!!

[@70yearoldrookiebowler]

I bought a Manhattan Rubber Ball from the Goodwill for $10.00 I use it as my spare ball and her Nick name is Nezzie which is engraved across the top! I wish I knew her story! But she came from late 50’s to 60’s I love Nezzie and she smoked the pro shop when I had her fitted ! Almost set off the smoke alarm!

[@NipkowDisk]

I was trying to figure out what rubber bowling ball was being used... maybe a Brunswick Black Beauty? An old AMFlite (those STANK when drilled!!)? Manhattan Rubber? Ace? I still use my 1974 Roto Star X-2 on occasion. EDIT: it might have helped if I looked at the title screen. I see it is a Brunswick Mineralite solid black version. I have one that is turquoise/black swirl, but never re-drilled for my hand. I also have a Brunswick Fireball that is red/black swirl but otherwise, likely the same as the Mineralite.

[@user-fd2dc8us8n]

@NipkowDisk If I recall, my first ball was a black Beauty. My average wasn't that high, but somehow in my first league (college student), snagged high game of 256. There was another ball I won a bit later, a white and light grey swirl Brunswick Imperial (I think).

[@brlyjo]

It feels like 80lb because of the high RG. I've felt the difference being high rev. I've never heard anyone mention it before. Edit-I forgot he bowls 15lb normally.

[@lionsdenblog]

OK... I laughed at the stone 9

[@Drift3121]

4:30 Packy became the last air bender. Or Force Wielder

[@2AChef-n-BBQ]

Who popped Packy in the chops???

[@everythingautomotiveeta5839]

His girlfriend because she's tired of asking him to take out the trash

[@2AChef-n-BBQ]

@everythingautomotiveeta5839 😂🤣😂 hard to move that many purple hammers

[@SteveWalsh-hx3ge]

@@2AChef-n-BBQ Madison...lol

[@hrsey71]

can someone please send Packy some chapstick!

[@MrKLUETCH]

Pac should have an option in these challenges…2 handed old tech balls or 1 handed choice of ball

[@SteveWalsh-hx3ge]

I don't think it's the ball fault (yeah I do)... But, beginning my 60th journey around the sun a few weeks ago, I find that all 60 year old things don't work like they ought to..😅😅

[@ScottyThompson-lt7wl]

Cool video talk tech bowling ball packy

[@markinmississippiwhetstine6061]

I haven't bowled in years but back in the 80s I had the Gold Angel and the Gray angel carried a 205 ave in 3 leagues. If a got back to bowling again what ball would be good all roundfor today. I am a lefty?

[@Jordankons123]

9:41 I’ve never been more disrespected.

[@shininglight223]

I've been bowling cense 2014 ish and I just got a new ball my old one is now 25 years old and its surprisingly hard to bowl with. BTW its a 1999 Brunswick Hasbro Collab ball if that makes a difference

[@richardbambenek2601]

I had a Brunswick Black Diamond that was harder than granite and could not get it to hook

[@SteveWalsh-hx3ge]

My first ball was an Ebonite Magnum 10

[@bmebreezy923]

Yessir 🔥

[@djknightshadow9489]

Yo packys a red Sox fan let's get it

[@Barksbowling]

Resurfacing a rubber ball has taken years off my life. So many toxic chemicals to breathe in

[@patrickdare5356]

I assume this is the LT-48. The highest performance ball of its era.

[@sealance]

LT-48 is about 50 years old now. Came out in the mid 70s. Don't remember the exact year

[@Brandon_Wallis]

Maybe I’m odd but I like the smell of burning rubber 🤣

[@TheBigfoot1999]

Hey, don't hate on us seniors. Some of us have some rev rate still. ;)

[@theamateurfurry4735]

Packy, is that the Brunswick Mineralite from a couple years ago? If so, I have one of those, got it for $50 from eBay. Every time I’ve thrown it, no matter how much rotation I put on it, it’s a straight, laser-guided missile (great for straight shots, awful for hooking)! Also mine’s a conventional grip with massive fingers!

[@TheHouseBowling]

Yes!

[@rafabonati7757]

I know someone who bowls league with a 16 pound rubber ball from the 60s (possibly 50s). I wish it would break in half so it would force him to buy a new ball.

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

why?

[@SteveWalsh-hx3ge]

@@rafabonati7757 gotta love the Manhattan Rubber crowd. I'm almost 60 and feel old when discussing the balls we had when I was a Junior

[@rafabonati7757]

@@sinisterthoughts2896 - Because he constantly leaves splits and corner pins, doesn’t know why, and complains that he was robbed. Gets mad when anyone suggests getting a new ball.

[@rafabonati7757]

@@SteveWalsh-hx3ge - I am way older and love seeing the Black Beauty model I used to use. But I wouldn’t put one in my bag on today’s lanes. It’s a different sport now.

[@YAYEETUS]

Go Yankees!!

[@BBDragon66]

Amateur claps a 2 hander would be another good title for this 🤣🤣 You definitely do better camera work with thumbs, like your bowling. 👍👍

[@TheHouseBowling]

Haha you're right!

[@annwatts7002]

Oh Clark Kent / Superman Chris Prather is another bowler who knows what hes doing, Packys right

[@jeffromaine142]

That's why, when we bowled in the 60's and 70's, you just had to average a 205 or better to become pro...PBA, that is.

[@melissabowers6268]

Wow - Packy not throwing strikes - maybe there is hope for the rest of us. Red Sox nation all day, every day.

[@gmonorail]

teamCameraGuy

[@jacej2924]

Yo

[@Corvidae65]

Personally, I liked seeing the old rubber ball going down the lane. I think hard rubber and a pancake core should be the standard for bowling to level the field.

[@SteveWalsh-hx3ge]

No skid marks on the lanes??

[@LOLHoneybadger]

0 likes? Poggers.

[@bowlerdave9347]

Loved and miss my rubber ball. They are so predictable and hit like a train.

[@TalentlessXander]

My money is on the old ball

[@SteveWalsh-hx3ge]

My all time high series of 867 was with my old black u-dot. But, when I try and throw my new IQ 78u, I'm not used to no hook in the box reactions

[@mrtierney2]

Should have thrown the helix

[@lnr12241]

I'll bowl ya. I don't have a ball. And haven't bowled in about 19 years. But I'll play you lol

[@RoyMarceau]

I would like to meet you I’m from Clark newjersey

[@annwatts7002]

You guys NEED a bowler who KNOWS what hes doing heheheheHA! his name is Darren Tang heheheheheHA!

[@charleskelly8072]

are you in regular contact with Sara Klasson and Eric Jones

[@RocafellaJiggaman]

Astros bro?

[@sprintcarguy03]

How come you didn't get invited to firelake this year

[@terickcoleman5383]

packy, do you think brent would be available in the middle of march to bowl an adult youth tournament with league i have to win and this is an adult youth against some of the best youth to ever come out of Kansas the tournament is called the KCO

[@70yearoldrookiebowler]

I am pretty sure Packy could score 200 with a soccer ball

[@BKFS-ls9by]

Was the amateur guy throwing a 12 pound ball?

[@TheHouseBowling]

😂

[@SteveWalsh-hx3ge]

Yeah. If you think that when I move from Phoenix to The Eastwood or college hill areas of Wichita that I will be working on rubber balls in my workshop, you are kidding yourself. Also, a good way to piss off your wife. Pack, learn that one. Madison, according to the vids, doesn't like to put up with the shenanigans. Keep her happy... Happy wife, happy life....lol

[@SteveWalsh-hx3ge]

I meant Eastbourogh not Eastwood. I guess my autocorrect likes Clint....lol

[@RoyMarceau]

I would like to meet you I’m from Clark New Jersey 1 Janie lane I’m 8 yo and I’m a huge fan of you

[@Fetchu]

Day 1 of asking packy to 1v1 me please

[@jackarmstrong1371]

Smells exactly like rotten eggs

[@vfxflozz8689]

do u have herpys

[@kingdragon1076]

1 handed vs amatur

[@84-Po-209]

*amateur

[@Logan_Golf]

First

[@swineFU]

Astros are trash. Props to the camera man repping the Dodgers the last few videos

[@T8ter_Salad]

Really??? And Astros hat??? This video made me nauseous.

[@deadmilkman121]

I can't get over how ridiculous two handed bowling looks lmao

[@84-Po-209]

womp womp

[@Brayden_bowls]

First