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Something is strange in Denmark
Posted By: mamabear In Response To: Something is strange in Denmark (Karl Frogner)
Date: Friday, 22 July 2016, at 12:07 p.m.
In the USA, any company of sufficient size will very likely have a bowling league. Groups within the company form teams and play vs. the others, usually once a week, for trophies and not money. I am not a good bowler (128 average), but most company leagues give you a handicap, so it's not as bad as that sounds. I was the first sub on the Research team at the first place I worked after college. So many people had to call off because of being away from the home base for work, that I bowled almost every week.
This custom keeps many people involved in bowling until retirement, after which they may then join a new league at the senior center or other organization. And when they have children and grandchildren, they are likely to teach them how to bowl, and so keep feeding new people into the system. I think this explains in part why there are so many more bowlers in the US than backgammon players. Does anything similar happen in Denmark or anywhere else in Europe?
In contrast, I've never heard of a company having a backgammon team! The only outfit I know of that had any backgammon action going on, was where the late Ed King worked. He ran an annual tournament for the benefit of the Mid-Ohio Food Bank, and it even had a Calcutta by email. At most places, though, if you mention backgammon they think you mean a sport where you hit a feathered whatzis back and forth with skinny rackets.
P. S. Some people joke that bowling leagues are just an excuse to eat pizza and drink beer, but that is not true. Neither Americans nor Danes need any excuse to eat pizza and drink beer >>
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