Foosball !!! I was in the thick of that! I could go to bars at age 18, eventually became deadly at foosball and would play a lot of doubles for 25¢ a game, we'd bet a pitcher of beer for the winners. I'd usually start off winning, by a couple hours later I had won enough. I became very deadly in college, met a player who became a lifetime friend and we usually dominated wherever we played against. I was heavily into foosball for most of 20 years. I had a gallon bag full of broken foosball men. Used to bring a can of Pledge and bag of rosin with me when I played.
I was always goalie fuck when on mushrooms nobody could get by me
I preferred to play back when playing doubles. Made a lot of points from back there. My best quote was "You can't defend against that which you can not see". I had serious power and timing on playing the ball, passing and the Z shots (double bank shots). I was great at defense too but my front man was also a good defender so I didn't have to defend every shot. He had an uncanny ability to read the other front man and block a lot of his shots. I can't imagine playing on shroons, the sweat was pouring off me just from the intensity of the game (and beers) as it was. I ended up adopting a cotton wristband so I could wipe the sweat from my forehead before it got into my eyes.
I was usually laughing.
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