Topic: Warrior, Best Ball in the Foosball World!?

[foozkillah]

WG,

You probably know me... I first started coming down to South Florida in the mid 80's, coz my folks had a timeshare down by SW 72nd - Horizon Towers West, near the old Bally's and the State Fairgrounds.  That's where I met good buddies Bill Bonson, Greg Reynolds, and Greg Chen (RIP) at Keg West and the first English Pub.  Tony Matani, Danny Williams and Scott Rogers were still there, too.  Danny's from Orlando now, along with Tommy May, while Scott's near Plant City I think.  Tony Matani and Jim Dumas and I just saw Scott play at the Orlando 2000 this past weekend.  Tony hadn't seen Scott from the old championship team 20+ years ago!  I won SP dubs with Brian Costello and 9th in Open .. lost to the Yore Brothers..  third game..   Danny Williams couldn't go, coz of his new girlfriend.

Moved down (with a blond neurotic Gap model who was adopted, of course) in 89 and never really left.  Met Cody and Gary Gold and Tommy May and Becky Callister (remarried twice, living in Lexington area, KY) and Chris Jule and Dave Abrams, the Miller Brothers, the Delcoro brothers, Kenny Bixgorin, Phil Izo, Chris Thomas, Richie Janis, Rick Fell and Starman and Green (both are in Tampa)at the Cross County Mall tournaments run by Raoul (Midnight Auto) and Butch.  I was shocked to see Nevois(from PCH) and Thor Donovan (from Dante's in Iowa) when I started going to Sine's and Rudy's in Tampa with these guys.

I'm Hawaiian Flyin' Foozkillah Brian U.  Who're you?  You in Cali with my buddies Nagy and Furci ?  Or are you near SD with Juwani, the Stach clan and those Indian pullkickers??   I lived in Glendale, playing at Charles Billiards locally there, of course, and at the Pitcher House on PCH.. some time at Rancho Cucamonga.  Half my old high school buddies from the islands are spread between Solana Beach (SD) through upper Marin Cty and Seattle.  All over Cali.  And my uncle ran Wavers on Kalakua avenue and at Nimitz Ave back in the Jurassic foos era.

[bbtuna]

Brian Uytiepo FL 
http://foosworld.com/public/main/playerProfile.aspx?id=6DE954A773A247DA8D01226947897054

[foozkillah]

Brian Uytiepo FL 
http://foosworld.com/public/main/playerProfile.aspx?id=6DE954A773A247DA8D01226947897054

Very shlick BBT,

So who would Wounded Goose be, then?

[Wounded Goose]

FoozKillah<  I knew Becky Collister also.    I left Florida back in 1986.  I know 90% of your buddies from Glendale CA.  I live in Lake Mathews CA.  (near Perris, Temecula)  Ask them, "Who the Weasel is"?
I haven't touched the table since 1999.  I had two broken wrists back to back in 2000 and 2001, then a knee injury and broken ankle in 2002, a fractured arm and fractured wrist between 2003-2004.  Then in 2006 I crushed two disks and busted a vertabrae in my lower back and had to have spine surgery . So I fell out of the sport for a while.  I guess Ken Oda is running most of the So. Cal. tourneys around here.  I will have to look him up when I want to hit a local tournament one of these days.

[foozkillah]

WG,

Got your message...  Hope you come back soon!  Back to the future with Dynamo-like or TS-like balls and single goalie bars and control player feet.

From your injuries, you must have been a chess player! 

So you must know uberref Arthur, who also hails from near Hatboro, PA, near the Philly foosers.

Jeez... I feel old.

[Syronis]

Damn.... what did you do to get all those injuries?

[Wounded Goose]

Riding Motorcycles and Quads.   I've had other quads hit me and been run into by a dune buggy,  plus I've crashed on my own a few times jumping on hard pack. 

[foozkillah]

Riding Motorcycles and Quads.   I've had other quads hit me and been run into by a dune buggy,  plus I've crashed on my own a few times jumping on hard pack. 

You sound like Glenn Burgess, who was more of a speedfreak on paved parts like Cody and Green (firewall behind their accelerators were indented permanently each road trip to Tampa).   He's with 4-5 kids now, in B*mF*ck, Idaho or Dakota, although I still see his dad down here.  I also know the PhillyFoos.com foosers, having lived and been back & forth in that area over 12+ years .. this was before SoFlo, and those guys get into Cykes and Quads, too,  only they add basejumping at the end of the trip up the mountains.  One of them, Ronnie Kemp (basejumped the Wachovia Center when it opened in Philly) is also now down here, playing with us..  These guyz, Chain, Dovi, Sluggo (check their pics on PhillyFoos.com) are certifiable.

Yeah, we would probably get along just fine, WG, in fact, we probably did!

[foozkillah]

Damn.... what did you do to get all those injuries?

  Riding Motorcycles and Quads.   I've had other quads hit me and been run into by a dune buggy,  plus I've crashed on my own a few times jumping on hard pack.  

It was either that, or always picking up the wrong girl with the strange tatoos at that bar.
 

[Wounded Goose]

FZKILLA < 
Glen Burgess ? !!  I haven't seen him in 22 years...   he wanted to be a stunt car driver.
Does Becky go to the worlds?   Are you going this year? 

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[bbtuna]

this has gone off topic a bit, can you all start a new thread or communicate by messages or email or exchange phone numbers and reminisce that way?

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[bbtuna]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8E_zMLCRNg

[Syronis]

Most of us here probably really appreciate tuna's posts, don't know why you have to be a jackass to everybody SSB.