It's highly probable that Rico, Billy and Tony are mutants, and so any shot they've done should not count in this thread...
Having said that, during the 1980s in Colorado there was a player with just stunning speed and power named Doug Moe (no relation to the former Denver Nuggets coach with the same name). Doug generally didn't win in tour events because he often couldn't restrain his power with a certain degree of control needed to win, but he could put on some incredible demos. (His follow-on proteges included Gary Edgeworth, Lee Roley, Grant Nelson and others also known for raw power.) In any case, Doug and Tom Spear used to challenge each other on blasting a set of pull kicks that Doug used to call "Inviso" and "Turbo" to see who could hit it harder and/or louder. Amazing (and ear-ringing) to watch the both of them taking turns doing it. But one time I was at a tournament with Spear (I can't remember where; maybe St. Louis) where Spear was attracting a crowd doing the Inviso demo and on one shot he hit the ball so hard it came back out, deflected off a rod and went almost straight up into the air hitting a ballroom chandelier, breaking some of its glass and proceeding to hit the ceiling (about 20-24 feet above the table) whereupon it came straight back down and hit Charles MacIntosh -- who like everyone else was looking up at the ball/chandelier) -- in the eye. Fortunately all Charles suffered was a very swollen black eye for the rest of the tournament, but Spear was barred from any more Inviso-shot demos...
Not sure if that counts for this thread, since part of what happened wasn't "on" a foosball table...
Larry "Foosball is war by other means" Davis
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