Featherbowling and Detroit
August 7, 2015 4:05 PM Subscribe
Only in Detroit. "Featherbowling was born from that medieval family of games that endure in no small part because they can be played with a beverage in the shooter’s free hand."
Suppossed to remain SECRET! Now the rackets will balance the percentages.
posted by clavdivs at 5:22 PM on August 7, 2015
posted by clavdivs at 5:22 PM on August 7, 2015
so great. must visit.
posted by leotrotsky at 7:00 PM on August 7, 2015
posted by leotrotsky at 7:00 PM on August 7, 2015
Indeed, Detroiters do love throwing things at other things. See also, fowling. It's bowling, but the ball is a football.
posted by selfmedicating at 7:04 PM on August 7, 2015
posted by selfmedicating at 7:04 PM on August 7, 2015
That's impressive. And what's more impressive is that the writer is not a Detroiter.
posted by texorama at 7:30 PM on August 7, 2015
posted by texorama at 7:30 PM on August 7, 2015
You know what would make this even better? If you played it on some sort of icy surface...
...and then, you could have the other players do things to change the quality of the ice, to influence the speed and direction of the item being thrown...like sweeping, or something...
Naturally, there would still be drinking involved.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 8:09 PM on August 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
...and then, you could have the other players do things to change the quality of the ice, to influence the speed and direction of the item being thrown...like sweeping, or something...
Naturally, there would still be drinking involved.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 8:09 PM on August 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
Oh no way! When I was like six or seven, I must have pumped thirty dollars worth of change into that juke box you can see in header photo so I could hear The Coasters' "Charlie Brown" over and over while my dad featherbowled with his buddies.
...Or that might be a cigarette machine. Some piece of machinery in that room got quite a workout from me one night in like 1987.
posted by Maaik at 8:44 PM on August 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
...Or that might be a cigarette machine. Some piece of machinery in that room got quite a workout from me one night in like 1987.
posted by Maaik at 8:44 PM on August 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
...and then, you could have the other players do things to change the quality of the ice, to influence the speed and direction of the item being thrown...like sweeping, or something...
That's just gonna lead to wearing lycra and yelling things in French.
posted by madajb at 8:44 PM on August 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
That's just gonna lead to wearing lycra and yelling things in French.
posted by madajb at 8:44 PM on August 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
"Naturally, there would still be drinking involved."
I see no reason for not writing in a small arms proviso.
posted by clavdivs at 3:46 AM on August 8, 2015
I see no reason for not writing in a small arms proviso.
posted by clavdivs at 3:46 AM on August 8, 2015
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