Todd Hoyer
todd@bowlingtovegas.com
Age:
28
Average:
180
Best Bowling Experience:
My entire sophmore year in college, when my team
"The Pinheads" took both the fall and spring semester bowling championship,
I had my highest average ever that year, and led the league both semesters.
Worst Bowling Experience:
Taking 9 strikes into the 10th frame and instead
of closing it out for the 300, going high into the rack to leave the 1-3,
and then fanning on it completely to not even get my spare.
Favorite PBA bowler:
Parker Bohn III
Favorite beer while bowling:
Miller Lite. Miller Lite is not only less
filling, but it tastes great, and there's not a lot of alcohol in Miller
Lite, so you can drink a lot of them, yet still maintain your edge in any
bowling competition. As the night goes on and the rest of the people your
bowling against get drunk and stupid, they're liable to wager more and bowl
worse, which is perfect if you've been drinking Miller Lite all evening.
Why bowl to Vegas instead of fly?
The fact that this question is even asked
makes me disgusted with the plight of humanity. We have this great big
country out there, and people just want to fly over it, instead of seeing it
up close and personal, and what better way to do that than in the bowling
alleys of Central America. And by Central America, I don't mean, like
Honduras, I mean, like Missiouri. If I was say, going to Brazil, I think I
would want to fly over Honduras.
Bowling History:
I started bowling in the 12 and under league at the
Northgate Lanes in Cuyahoga Falls, OH. Northgate Lanes was a big part of my
development growing up, I learned to bowl, play pool, and like skanks and
classic rock there. I suppose I carried about a 120 average in those days,
throwing mostly a straight ball, a 10 pound alley ball. In high school, I
also bowled at Northgate Lanes in a 4 man league, and back in those days if
you were a part of a league, you got to bowl there for free whenever you
wanted, except for like friday and saturday nights. Plus a couple of my
friends worked there too. I was up to a 160 average in those days and
bowled a lot, it was at this point in my bowling development where I really
started to like the image of pins scattering, so I made it a point to throw
the ball as hard as I possibly could, this was also when I started
experimenting with a bit of a hook. In college I bowled at the Holland
bowl, I was living in Holland, Michigan at the time. The Holland bowl is
interesting because it has to be the only bowling alley in America that
doesn't serve alcohol. This probably helped my game, and me, Ryan Kreider,
Mike Carr, and whoever Mike was dating at the time created a dynasty that is
still talked about in the annalls of Hope College intramural sports. The
Pinheads. The Pinheads won 4 straight semester titles, and then
unfortunately had to break up due to my leaving town to do an internship.
Mike and Ryan kept the Pinheads going, but then graduated. When I came back
some jackasses were using the Pinhead name, and I started a new team. I
asked the new Pinheads where they got the name, and they said that some
dorks were the Pinheads a few years back and they won a bunch of titles, but
they all graduated, so they just took the name. I never let them know that
they were talking to one of the founding members of the Pinheads, but
revenge was sweet, as our new team took them down. My average was in the
190s through college, thanks to a nice steady hook with a strong back end.
Post college bowling hasn't been as regular as it should be, there are
spurts of bowling a lot followed by months of no bowling, this has effected
the average, which is now down to about 180. Having a job sucks.
Trivial Details:
I was born in New York, grew up in Ohio, went to
college in Michigan and now I live in Chicago. I'm going west, the way of
Haratio Alger or Buster Keaton. I like baseball, books, movies, chess,
bowling, golf, classic rock, American muscle cars from the 70s, and being
left alone. I don't like children or pets, but for some reason they like
me. I bowl with a 16 pound Dragon.
