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Soda Frame—For Bowlers Who Don't Drink Beer

FunBowlingTees.com creates a family-friendly alternative to the beer frame, and releases a line of T-shirts to promote it.

APOPKA, FL — April 24th, 2007 — In the sport of bowling, a beer frame is when all bowlers in a team or group except for one bowls a strike in the same frame. It is called a beer frame because of a tradition that involves the one bowler who didn't score a strike buying a beer for everyone in the group. Even those who do not follow this tradition still call it a beer frame when that happens. However, bowling has recently become a more family-oriented activity, and has attracted many who have not yet reached the drinking age, as well as those who just want to have some good clean fun without drinking. Many bowling centers have even banned smoking to cater to this direction bowling has taken. So Kenny Bentley, owner and administrator of FunBowlingTees.com, decided it was time for a family-friendly alternative to the beer frame. So he developed a new line of T-shirts to set a new trend—the soda frame.

In bowling, a "beer frame" is when all bowlers in a team or group except for one bowls a strike in the same frame. It is called that because of an old tradition, in which the bowler who does not score a strike buys a beer for everyone else in the group. Not everyone follows this tradition, but many still call it a beer frame when this happens.

However, bowling has recently become more family oriented, and has attracted participation from those who have not yet reached the drinking age, as well as those who just want to have some good clean fun without drinking alcohol. So now, FunBowlingTees.com brings you an alternative to the beer frame for kids and non-drinkers--the "Soda Frame". Not everyone follows the beer frame tradition mentioned before, nor do we encourage it, but many still call it a beer frame. But now there's something else to say around kids and non-drinkers when this happens.

And to go with it, FunBowlingTees.com brings you the "Soda Frame" T-shirt. These T-shirts come in adult and kid sizes, and feature the words "SODA FRAME!" in big red letters. The adult T-shirts read, "I don't drink beer." The kids' T-shirts instead read, "I'm too young to drink beer." And like all our products, these shirts are available in various colors and styles and in all sizes.

Click here to get your Soda Frame T-shirt today!

April 12, 2007, was one of my days off from work (I don't run this site full time yet),
and I had planned a trip to my home bowling center, Brunswick Wekiva Lanes in Apopka, Florida (near Orlando), for a day of bowling. Wekiva Lanes is not more than a 5 or 10 minute drive from my house. I'm visually impaired and don't see well enough to drive, so I used a paratransit service to get me to the bowling alley and back home. (And yes, I bowl and I'm visually impaired. I have about a 115 average, which if I do say so myself, is good for one who is blind in one eye and has about 20/70 vision in the other.) But the catch with this paratransit service is you have to plan your trips a day in advance, and once planned, it's set in stone and all you can do is cancel as little as three hours before the trip. And I was about to wish I'd called the bowling alley in advance and asked if there would be lanes available that day before planning the trip. It turned out that there was a tournament going on and I had no knowledge of it, and I was stuck there for three hours because of the way my ride works, so all I could do was stick around and watch. But it wasn't just any tournament, it was the NCAA women's college bowling national championships. An NCAA national championship bowling tournament at my home bowling center, not more than 5 or 10 minutes from my house? Oh my gosh! There was a lot of good bowling going on, and it was a really cool experience to be able to attend such a big tournament. The finals on the 14th were broadcast on ESPN2 the next day. I couldn't go to the finals because I had to work, but I did manage to tape it. But even if it was just the first day of the tournament, it was quite an experience. If there's ever an NCAA bowling tournament in your area, then go check it out if you get the chance. It will be quite an experience. But in case you never get to go to an NCAA bowling tournament, keep reading and I'll tell you all about my day at the tournament in enough detail to make you feel like you're there.