<h4>Fred Smoot's professional bowling ambitions may be realized</h4> <p class="byline">By Chris Chase</p>
Earlier this week Dan Steinberg of the DC Sports Bog described Fred Smoot's goal of becoming a pro bowler after his football career is over. Smoot is serious, too. Or somewhat serious. You decide:</p>
These post-football plans were brought to light after the Washington Redskins cancelled their planned OTAs on Tuesday and had a team outing at a local bowling alley instead. <span class="ysp-player">Chris Cooley(notes)</span> wrote about the afternoon in an excellent blog post (and got in a playful dig at Smoot when he told Redskins blogger Matt Terl that Smoot would be just as excited bowling a 125 as backup quarterback Todd Collins would be bowling a 300).</p>
The PBA heard about Smoot's future plans and today offered him an invitation to a PBA event:</p>
What, mostly irrelevant? (Kidding, Fred. Kidding. Sort of.)</p>
The PBA has always been pretty good about marketing, and inviting Smoot to a tournament would probably draw a bunch of new viewers, most of whom would be sports bloggers. Throw an invite the way of Gilbert Arenas and it'd be the blog equivalent of covering the moon landing.</p>
By the way, given Smoot's affinity for trash talk and festive boat rides, you won't be at all surprised to hear that Smoot gets a bit enthusiastic when he bowls. It looks like Freddy rolls a bit like Jesus (Quintana). Smoot did play for the Vikings once, so he probably has some purple in his closet. Let's just hope Todd Collins marked it eight, dude.</p>
These post-football plans were brought to light after the Washington Redskins cancelled their planned OTAs on Tuesday and had a team outing at a local bowling alley instead. <span class="ysp-player">Chris Cooley(notes)</span> wrote about the afternoon in an excellent blog post (and got in a playful dig at Smoot when he told Redskins blogger Matt Terl that Smoot would be just as excited bowling a 125 as backup quarterback Todd Collins would be bowling a 300).</p>
The PBA heard about Smoot's future plans and today offered him an invitation to a PBA event:</p>
What, mostly irrelevant? (Kidding, Fred. Kidding. Sort of.)</p>
The PBA has always been pretty good about marketing, and inviting Smoot to a tournament would probably draw a bunch of new viewers, most of whom would be sports bloggers. Throw an invite the way of Gilbert Arenas and it'd be the blog equivalent of covering the moon landing.</p>
By the way, given Smoot's affinity for trash talk and festive boat rides, you won't be at all surprised to hear that Smoot gets a bit enthusiastic when he bowls. It looks like Freddy rolls a bit like Jesus (Quintana). Smoot did play for the Vikings once, so he probably has some purple in his closet. Let's just hope Todd Collins marked it eight, dude.</p>