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I have been a kegler in the past. No, this has nothing to do with any college activities, although college students do kegle. Some get academic credit for it too.
A kegler is a bowler as in bowling alley, bowling pins, funny shirts and beer frames.
The origin of the word comes from the German language meaning a bowling pin or peg.
Back in the day when I bowled, the term was still use. A clever team might call themselves the Krazy Keglers, etc. (Naming bowling teams was an art, as you can see)
I must admit a couple of bowling shirts adorned my closet over the years. They all had a business name on the back and my name on the front. One really classy bowling shirt (an oxymoron?) had my last name stitched on the back.
So, I bet some of you were keglers. As they used to say, “Get out of the streets and into the alleys.”
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Woody Woodward // August 17, 2009 at 2:27 pm
A funny remembrance about that word? As a young person, 14, I was on my one and only bowling league. I do remember seeing and hearing about “keler’s” but being from Oklahoma, was too dumb and naïve to ask who or what it was? At that impressionable age, I thought maybe it was some kind of nasty disease? My team was called “The Gutter Guys” and I think my high score was 100. So much for my non intelligent bowling thoughts.
wordsbybob // August 18, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Gutter Guys. HA I bet many leagues across the US had that name.