--- title: Fowling: A New Sport That Combines Football and Bowling description: The goal is to knock down all of the other team's pins with a football canonical: https://time.com/3965724/fowling-football-bowling/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-21T14:03:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:25:38.854Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Fowling: A New Sport That Combines Football and Bowling og:description: The sport in catching on in Michigan og:url: https://time.com/3965724/fowling-football-bowling/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Fowling: A New Sport That Combines Football and Bowling twitter:description: The sport in catching on in Michigan twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Fowling: A New Sport That Combines Football and Bowling  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jul 21, 2015 2:03 PM CUT  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jul 21, 2015 2:03 PM CUT A man in Michigan has invented a fusion of two American pastimes—and it’s catching on. The rules of [fowling](http://www.fowlingwarehouse.com/ "undefined"), a hybrid of football and bowling, are simple: two teams set up bowling pins across from one another and take turns trying to knock each other’s pins down by throwing a football. The first team to knock down all of the opposing team’s pins wins. If the rules sound pretty similar to beer pong, that’s because inventor Chris Hutt created the game while tailgating at the Indianapolis 500\. Hutt now owns and operates the Fowling Warehouse in Hamtramck, Mich. There, players get a special prize when they achieve a “bonk,” which means downing only the middle pin on the first throw: they can blow the “bonk honk” a giant horn in the middle of the warehouse. Still confused? Check out a game of fowling in the video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3965724/fowling-football-bowling/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3965724/fowling-football-bowling/"},"headline":"Fowling: A New Sport That Combines Football and Bowling","datePublished":"2015-07-21T14:03:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:25:38.854Z","description":"The goal is to knock down all of the other team's pins with a football","url":"https://time.com/3965724/fowling-football-bowling/","keywords":["bowling"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3965724/fowling-football-bowling/","name":"Fowling: A New Sport That Combines Football and Bowling"}}]}] ```