A new entertainment attraction opened this week in Omaha where Nebraskans can tip a drink while attempting to tip over bowling pins with a football. A football thrown by George Kyros scatters pins at the newly opened Fowling Warehouse in Omaha Thursday. The game is a melding of football and bowling.
The game is called fowling — rhymes with bowling — and the attraction is located in a former call center building northeast of 90th and Fort Streets. The game combines two sports popular with Nebraskans: football and bowling. Instead of rolling a ball down a lane, the players chuck footballs at the pins.
If it sounds like a game fraternity brothers would invent in the hallway of their frat house, you're not far off. According to the man who founded the national franchise, he and some friends came up with it while tailgating at the Indy 500 in 2001. When a real bowling ball proved unwieldy to use in their makeshift bowling alley, they turned to footballs.
The game proved so popular that before long he was putting up local franchises across the country. The Omaha franchise location , opened by Omahans Mark Wolf and Dan Fishburn, offers 30 fowling lanes and two full-service bars. It is the ninth Fowling Warehouse in the country.
The object of the game is to knock down all 10 of your opponents' bowling pins before they take down yours. Players can throw a football overhand or underhand. A football can bounce or roll, but kicking is not allowed.
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