Feather bowling, anyone?

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My brother in law Dan would not consider this ACTUAL bowling, but a few weeks ago we had a competition between the officers and chiefs at my unit, at a FEATHER bowling venue.  What is feather bowling, you are certainly asking yourself now........

Well, it is apparently something that is done in a couple locations within Michigan.  One of those very few establishments is located very close to my house, at an establishment called the Cadieux Cafe.  It is a Belgian inspired bar/restaurant, which has two feather bowling lanes located adjacent to the main building.

Feather Bowling involves a bocce length court that is bowed, just as the picture above shows.  Two teams of six people roll those wooden cheese wheel type things towards a feather stuck in the dirt lane, creating a vertical target for each team to shoot for.  Now it is just like horseshoes or curling, the team with the largest number of throwy things closest to the target earns the larger number of points.  At the lanes where we played, the goal was 10 points to win the game.

We won the challenge, but I am hoping that the next time we play the chiefs in something, it is more manly, like paint ball or laser tag!

Why can't white men dance?

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I went to my first Detroit Lions game last week, and it was the first NFL game I had attended in quite a few years.  I prefer to watch football on TV, because you get to see everything all zoomed in, especially now that they have all those crazy cameras on cables suspended over the field.  But because I had not seen a game in person for a while, I didn't realize/remember that they do some crazy introductions before the game starts.

I expected that there would be lots of dry ice and loud/deep/dramatic announcer voices, but I didn't expect that they would do some silly dances as they were introduced.  The defense was the part of the team that was introduced, and most of them were African Americans who had a good sense of rhythm.  Unfortunately, the defensive captain is a white guy who should not even ATTEMPT to dance, but he did.....  Good think for the Lions that he is a much better football player than a dancer.  He should NOT give up his day job.

My husband is white, and he can swing and jitterbug with the best of them, but he probably would have looked just as silly as poor Kyle Vanden Bosch if he had tried to dance to the modern hip-hop type music that they were playing.

Come to think of it, being a white girl myself, and not such a great dancer, I think I would have embarrassed myself with the musical choices that seemed to be prevalent during those pre-game introductions.