{"id":4588,"date":"2013-07-02T10:52:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T17:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2013-07-10T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T18:04:10","slug":"skee-ball-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/02\/skee-ball-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Skee-Ball Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/06\/30\/no_hipster_irony_this_skee_son_partner\/\" target=\"_blank\">from SALON<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>At the Skee-ball Super Bowl<\/h1>\n<p><em>I found earnest rollers playing a uniquely American game, not haughty hipsterdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/writer\/sean_hojnacki\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\" data-ga-track-json=\"[&quot;author&quot;, &quot;click&quot;, &quot;SEAN HOJNACKI&quot;]\">SEAN HOJNACKI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.salon.com\/2013\/06\/shutterstock_10951271-620x412.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>This originally appeared on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theclassical.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Classical<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When Joey the Cat rolled a last-frame full circle to nip DaVinskee in the semifinals of The BEEB, he appeared to have his third straight cream jacket fully sewn up. Snakes on a Lane stood in his way however. That\u2019s just how things go down in Cherrytown.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The clash between Joey and Snakes made for a thrilling finals at the fourth annual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bbnc4.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brewskee-Ball National Championship<\/a>\u2014world\u2019s preeminent skee-ball tournament\u2014in Austin, over Memorial Day Weekend. The best roller won thousands of dollars. As both incentive and consolation, all contestants got a bunch of free beers. It\u2019s a winning formula.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A confluence of my wife\u2019s love of live music and some cheap flights brought us to Texas\u2019 capital city, and a dear friend\u2019s ascent in the Brewskee-Ball rankings ensured that we\u2019d spend some time at the BBNC. \u201cIt\u2019s The BEEB,\u201d the poster proclaimed, and so let\u2019s call it that. The event had been held in New York City for its first three years and I\u2019d never attended, and never even really considered attending. But a certain wanderlust prompted me to join the 64 rollers at Austin\u2019s Historic Scoot Inn\u2014a bar established in the 19th century and located in what is now the city\u2019s booming scrap metal district, just across the train tracks from chic East 6th Street\u2014for the fourth national tournament organized around a century-old arcade game. It made logistical sense at the time, and makes a different sort of sense in retrospect.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/06\/30\/no_hipster_irony_this_skee_son_partner\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Salon.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from SALON At the Skee-ball Super Bowl I found earnest rollers playing a uniquely American game, not haughty hipsterdom BY\u00a0SEAN HOJNACKI This originally appeared on\u00a0The Classical. When Joey the Cat rolled a last-frame full circle to nip DaVinskee in the semifinals of The BEEB, he appeared to have his third straight cream jacket fully sewn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}