BOISE -- The Bowling Green Falcons and the Idaho Vandals met for the first Saturday afternoon to go bowling. More specifically, Bowling for Beef for local charities. For every pin knocked down, two pounds of beef were donated to charity.
For football players, competition is in their blood. Bowling, not necessarily. Even still the Falcons and the Vandals, managed to raise over 2,000 pounds of beef for four charities.
"I won 14 pounds of beef for the charity, so I'm proud of myself. Usually I get two gutter balls, but I bowled seven pins, so I'm happy," said Angelo Magnone who is a Defensive End for the Bowling Green Falcons.
He bowled against Nate Enderle and the Idaho Vandal offense.
"I got a nine. I hit it dead on, but I knocked over eight pins and had a split, and I tried to pick it up, but I was unsuccessful, and I got one," said Nate Enderle who plays quarterback for Idaho.
Enderle says for him, a nine is good.
"I had to use my focus and exceed expectations," said Enderle.
But in this friendly competition the Falcons bowled a better game.
"It's been a lot of fun. I'm not much of a bowler, but I'm glad I got to contribute to the charity and win some beef for them," said Magnone.
For the players winning this game isn't that important.
"It really isn't important. We're just having fun, trying, you know, bowl for charity. We won the bowling competition at our last bowl, and didn't do too good in the game, so it really didn't mean anything, so," said Magnone.
"I'm only disappointed because we couldn't get more pounds of beef to the charity," said Enderle.
Four charities, two in Boise, one in Moscow and one in Bowling Green, Ohio come out on top after Saturday's competition. In Boise, the Idaho Youth Ranch and Life's Kitchen will get over 500 pounds of beef donated by Certified Angus Beef.
"What that does is it helps us offset costs for several months," said Kurt Alderman who is the Executive Director for Life's Kitchen.
"It really allows us to make more money, and keep more kids in the program for a longer period of time," said Alderman.
"This is excellent. This is great for us, especially for kids at Hay's Shelter Home, which is a program of the Idaho Youth Ranch of Boise," said Steve Woodworth with the Idaho Youth Ranch.
The Idaho Youth Ranch and Life's Kitchen work to help kids who, at one point, have been down and out.
"It will go toward providing food for the shelter, which is really important in these hard times. Any type of donation like that goes a long ways in our programs," said Woodworth.
For the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl, these events are critical.
"We feel that we take Humanitarian seriously, and we want to give back to the community, not just economically, but also be able to do things for youth charities, for other charities in the community so we ourselves are trying to do something for people less fortunate," said Kevin McDonald who is the Executive Director for the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl.
The players say their skills at the bowling alley, have no bearing on how they will play on the football field. The difference, just might be in the shoes.
The Idaho Vandals and Bowling Green Falcons meet at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 30th at Bronco Stadium. Tickets are still available. We have Humanitarian Bowl information for you online in the "Hotlinks."
