Turkey Bowl - An Annual Thanksgiving Tradition In Ohio
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While the rest of the nation gets ready to thaw their turkey for the big Thanksgiving feast, folks in Cincinnati are making sure their birds are as frozen as can be - for soft turkeys do not make good bowling balls!
Tomorrow hundreds of contestants, both young and old will line up on the holiday skating rink at Cincinnati's famous landmark, Fountain Square to try their hand at the Annual Turkey Bowl.
As the name suggests, competitors slide frozen birds instead of bowling balls across the skating rink to try knock down ten pins.
Each contestant gets three tries and the person with the highest score wins $100 and a set of DVDs featuring WKRP in Cincinnati, a television show that was extremely popular between 1978-1982.
The event, which is also a fundraiser, costs $5 USD to enter, with all the proceeds being donated to charity.
In case you are wondering - the birds used are all turkeys that have been slated to be thrown away by stores.
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rti2over 12 yearswhitney: in Cincinnati people dont cook there turkeys for thanksgiving. They dont even unthaw them they want to make sure that there frozen solid. Cause both young and old come and bowl with there turkeys and try to win money. whoever gets the most points gets 100$- rti2over 12 yearstiffany: a big Thanksgiving feast, folks in Cincinnatiare both young and old will line up on the holiday skating rink at Cincinnati's famous landmark,.competitors slide frozen birds instead of bowling balls across the skating rink to try knock down ten pins.Each contestant gets three tries and the person with the highest score wins $100 and a set of DVDs featuring WKRP in Cincinnati, a television show that was extremely popular between 1978-1982.
cutiepie1010about 13 yearscool...i want to try...- Hannahover 13 yearsIn this article i have learned that people in ohio slide turkeys for a game of fun called bowling at.Here we use acual bowling bowling balls.I found thiss article interresting because i have never really known about what people in ohio do for fun.
- sean23over 13 yearsthat is probibly the weirdest soprt that I have ever seen. I think that it is good that they are not wasting food, they are useing food that is bad and not good to eat. But it is the coolest thing that I have ever seen.
- Laquilaover 13 yearsToday I learned that it may sound silly to use a turkey as bowling pins but its really a good cause becuase at the end they said they were using turkeys that stores throw away so instead of just wasting it at least they are used for something.
- Rubyover 13 yearsToday I learned that in Cincinnati, they use frozen turkeys to play bowling, instead of bowling balls.
- patrickover 13 yearsI think that it is realy cool that you turned one of my favoriat Thanks Giving foods into one of my favoriat sports. I think that is a very unique way of thawing out the turkey.
- wyattover 13 yearsI'm gald that people are having fun during the holdays for a good cause.
- Briannaover 13 yearssome things i learned from this article is the tradition of the ohio people :) i might move there to see what its like??? :) that looks really fun ! ;)