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[woman] So I heard all
the story about this one dude.

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He lived in Florida,
he lived far away

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and he was the best
foosball player in the world.

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I asked one of my buddies.

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I'm like, who's that?

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That's Tony.

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Tony, what do you mean?
Tony who? That's Tony Spredeman.

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How do I feel as a mother
being a world champion

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of the United States of America,
number one in the world?

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It's breathtaking. It's, it's...

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I'm proud. Just how people swarm
around him like he's a god.

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And everything
he touched, turn to gold.

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[Tony] I knew that
I wanted to be
the best player in the world.

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I didn't have many
friends in high school.

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I was a foosball player.

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I wasn't a football player.

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I was in my own world.

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I still am.
I'm obsessed with foosball.

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It's been my whole life.

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[upbeat music]

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[presenter] There's a lost generation of those who grew up dropping dimes in pinball

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and foosball slots. Tonight,
our Sports People salutes

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those who are making a comeback for the game of foosball.

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-[yelling]
-[clapping]

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[man] Do you think
foosball is dead?

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-A forgotten game? No?
-[woman] It's called foosball.

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-[man] It's not
well known nor recognized.
-[woman] Foosball is the devil!

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[man] Just like disco
and bell bottoms,
foosball is coming back.

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[Jim] It's a lot like boxing
and a little bit like chess

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as he players battle within two or three feet of each other.

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[woman] These folks
play high stakes foosball.

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[man] Foosball is
a combination of soccer

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and shish kebabs.

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[Jim] Where players will
compete to decide who is

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the best all around player
on the planet.

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[clanking]

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Tony, he's a master
and I think he got that,

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I know
he got that from his father.

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I live the simple life
as you can see. [laughing]

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They're both, they're two of
a kind. They're like
carbon copies of each other

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and I'm very proud of
my husband and my son Tony.

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[Tony] The first time
I saw a foosball table
was actually in my house.

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I think that
I was just drawn to it
because I knew my dad liked it.

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I saw his eyes kind of light up
and it was like,
"Really?", you know.

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And he started telling me
stories from when
he used to travel around.

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[Bud] It was really popular in
the 70s. That was a million
dollar tour back then

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and I did it the hard way.
I used to hitchhike all over
the country.

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I used to have a hat and my
fishing rod. I 'd stick it out
the back of my backpack.

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I figured
they'd pick me up 'cause

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not too many crooks
are going fishing and stuff.

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[Tony] I didn't go to
high school parties or
football games or any of that.

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Me and my dad would go to bars
and I'd be playing foosball
till 2:30 in the morning

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till bar time.

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This was his life
style and he couldn't

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believe that I took to it.

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This is when
Tony won his first Worlds.

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This is a Table Talkmagazine.
They used to get
these magazines every month

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or whatever, every three months.

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Got it after every big
tournament. It was cool,
I used to like when they

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gave these magazines out.

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They don't do
nothing like that anymore.

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Can you say foosball?
Yeah, you will?

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Are you going
to be able to say that?

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Lift your wings
if you can say, say yes. Okay.

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[Tony] To me, singles is the
ultimate representation

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of the best all around
foosball player.

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Part of my training as a kid,
I would play just left handed.

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I've acquired some
really fast hands because of it.

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Singles, I think
that I've won every tournament

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that I've entered this year.

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Including last
year's World Championships.

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I'd like to finish
this year out undefeated.

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[man] He's going to Worlds
and he's gonna expect

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to win every last thing
he plays.

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He goes there expecting to win.

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[Ryan] Tony Spredeman.
So he's the current
number one player in the world.

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You know, you win a World
Championships, what's next?

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You just won the
highest level of foosball.
Where do you go from there?

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This year I want to be down
there. I want to be the one on
that table where everybody's

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screaming, hooting and
hollering. I want to be
the best player in the world.

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In fourth grade,
what I actually decided

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to do for
my science fair project

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was I wanted to clone a tomato.

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Now I'm cloning money
essentially and medicine for
people. It's about winning.

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We are gonna be the best
dispensary. A lot of that drive
comes from what I learned

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in foosball.
It's made life a game.

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[Mary] Ryan's a perfectionist
on things that he does

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that mean a lot to him,
becoming a grower
and playing foosball.

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He sits back, he thinks
how can I do this better
than anybody else.

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[Ryan] We're going for the
gold standard in this industry

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so this is kind of the start.

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This is a full 24 hour
operation going on here.

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This room has a lot of pot

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and I mean a lot of pot
and not many people

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come in here.
I mean, by not many, nobody.

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Reason being
we have a lot of pot.

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I mean, how often can
you have a foosball table

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next to a thousand plants?

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For the short year that he's
been open, he's already
won the Cannabis Cup

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which is like the
World Championship of
marijuana growers.

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[Todd] A mutual friend
introduced us

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and it was,
if not the best, it was

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in the top two
best cannabis experiences

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that I've ever had.

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Just had a real natural
green thumb, so to speak.

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[Todd] Ryan is very competitive.

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Anything
from foosball to ping pong

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to racing cars to
growing the best cannabis
in the United States.

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Whatever he seems to be doing,
he wants to be
the very best at it.

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The way that his mind works,
we all call him the human
calculator at work.

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There's an angle to work,
he's just got it.

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He understands all the angles.
He sees every shot
before it's even made.

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[Mary] As a player, you know,
you always want to be on top.

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He's gonna be at every
tournament locally, he's gonna
be at every tournament there is.

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He's gonna live on a table
between now and Worlds.

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Alright, so here we are at
Pepas. It's a Tuesday night.

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Bring your partner.

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We have a weekly
tournament here every week

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down here in Colorado Springs.

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Every time you come to
one of these tournaments,

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you got to have your wraps.

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What this does is
give you some better grip

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when you're playing foosball.

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So it's a tennis wrap.

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Ryan Moore, number
two in the world, is here

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and showing off a
little bit for all of us.

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It's an honor to say
that I get to play him.

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You know, second in the world.

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I'd call him spectacular.

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[Mary] Every World Championship
title is very important and
means a lot to him.

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So this year he's gonna be
the underdog for Worlds

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but I think it's kind of
revenge, redemption over
last year.

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I wanted to break a realm.
I feel like I never
unleashed my true potential.

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Being able to compete and win
it is one of my
biggest loves of life.

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I'm gonna win
because I am the best.

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So that's the grip ball.
We call 'em dead bar
in the foosball world.

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Grips all the way through, man.
First started, it was
just one, couple around it,

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and just kept going and
now it's out of control.

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Ouch.

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Okay, so.

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I had 25, 48.

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I just added three.

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So I got to change that.

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51.

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And counting.

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[Zack] I met
Rob a couple years back,

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playing local tournaments.

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Little lumpy right there.

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I probably haven't
met anybody this passionate

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about the game and
probably loves the game
as much as he does.

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If I have a question,
he'll answer it.

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He'll go into detail
for 30 minutes about it.

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You can get away with
pulling 'em way back, yeah,
and then how good is the tuck,

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how good is the spray,
how good is the long?

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So those are all
gonna be your gauges

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so it's not just random.

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You know
what you're looking for--

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[Vicky] Robert's such a
good role model, I think.

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He's a veteran now, you know.

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People look
up to him and he wanted

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to influence the
younger generation too.

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[Robert] We don't want it to
be like Luke Skywalker
jumping through the thing,

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barely making it through.
Ideally, it's bam, right
when it's open. Bam, bam.

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I'm not trying to quick shoot
you but I'm wanting to
get it within two bobs

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'cause that's honestly all I'm

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gonna really see out there.

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Little faster.

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Little more. There you go.

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I can handle that.

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I'm Dr. Gary Otto, chiropractor.

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Normally when I see Robert,
he has issues with his
shoulders,

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sometimes his elbows
and occasionally a wrist

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just from the foosball,
repetitive trauma, micro trauma.

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-Ready, hold. That's good.
Push that, ready? Hold.
-Yeah. Yeah.

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[Robert] I've been on a bit
of a hot streak this year

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and I've been seeing Dr. Otto

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and it does feel pretty good so

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I don't want to say it's
a secret to my success

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but it's kind of
part of the formula now.

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[Gary] Okay.

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My daily routine will vary
greatly depending on the time
of year,

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depending on if I'm
preparing for a tournament.

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If so, what tournament?

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That all matters.

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[announcer]
Loffredo's pull shot.

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Blocked and taken away by Moore

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who sends it up the table.

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Oh, that was a good pass.

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When you're watching
the people on the video play,

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you're generally watching
good ball.

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Just watch, just pay attention.

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Oh. Oh-ho-ho...

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Okay, see, like that.

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[laughing]

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Wooh!

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Okay, there's
a bald eagle right there.

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He's flying
in over the water here.

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God, with any luck,
he'll come right over here.

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Oh, that's awesome.

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I consider it a blessing.

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I think it's a sign
of good luck, too.

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A good omen for me.

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Training at altitude's
got to be good.

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You don't
want to be bonking, man,

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but I want
to get in a good ride.

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I don't want to hit
too, too many balls today

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but I definitely want to
get my arm a nice workout in

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and get those
foos muscles worked out.

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This is one of the hardest
things to cross-train for, to
simulate the actual impact

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of slamming foosballs,
you have to slam foosballs.

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That's just the way that works.

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When I was a kid
growing up in Tucson,

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I just liked KISS, you know.

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So this one I've had
since I was like ten. [laughs]

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What you're looking at here

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is first ever Foosball World Cup

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where they have
country versus country,
Olympic style foosball event.

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We were completely freaking out
that foosball's that big over
there that it was on a stamp.

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That's a picture of me and Ryan
playing from the year before.

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Foosball stamp
really works, people.

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It's not just a novelty.

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[dramatic music]

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Hey, I'm Terry Rue and I
am professional foosball player.

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[upbeat music]

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[Terry] I am foosball
and foosball is me.

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It's kind of like breathing
at this point in my life.

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You wake up and it happens
naturally and you do it.

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And you wait
for it, they all do it.

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Oh, that foosball's the devil.

232
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-Like that. Move.
-Move, now move.

233
00:13:58,141 --> 00:14:00,752
Yeah, we actually made it!

234
00:14:00,796 --> 00:14:03,843
And we both said, "Can you
believe what we did last year?"

235
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[Terry] We had all won
a world title as a family.

236
00:14:06,367 --> 00:14:08,151
It's an amazing experience
to do it

237
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with the people
you love the most.

238
00:14:10,110 --> 00:14:11,807
Good pass.

239
00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:13,548
This is my first world title.

240
00:14:13,983 --> 00:14:17,421
It says, "Twelve and Under
Singles, First Place."

241
00:14:17,465 --> 00:14:20,033
[Keisha] There are times when
I'll walk up and she'll be
playing someone

242
00:14:20,076 --> 00:14:22,209
that's old enough
to be her grandfather.

243
00:14:22,252 --> 00:14:25,865
They feel bad because they're
gonna be playing this
little girl

244
00:14:25,908 --> 00:14:28,345
and then when
it's over, they are like,

245
00:14:28,389 --> 00:14:31,740
"I was taking it easy
and that little girl
just whooped my bleep."

246
00:14:31,783 --> 00:14:34,525
I ' m like yeah, you
can't take it easy on her.

247
00:14:34,569 --> 00:14:36,310
She hits that ball
harder than her mama does.

248
00:14:36,353 --> 00:14:37,224
Nah.

249
00:14:38,573 --> 00:14:41,271
-Oh, Sully Bear!
-Yay!

250
00:14:41,315 --> 00:14:45,188
I've never tasted
alcohol, no smoking, dip, drugs.

251
00:14:45,232 --> 00:14:47,843
I had dancing
and skating and foosball.

252
00:14:47,887 --> 00:14:49,889
That was my high in life.

253
00:14:49,932 --> 00:14:52,065
You just show
the love that you have

254
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for something
and your children follow.

255
00:14:54,850 --> 00:14:57,505
They joke and call us
the first family of foos.

256
00:15:02,510 --> 00:15:04,294
[Keisha] He works hard.
He works really hard.

257
00:15:04,338 --> 00:15:07,080
He comes home,
he kisses us all hi

258
00:15:07,123 --> 00:15:09,821
and what's for supper
and then he gets in the den

259
00:15:09,865 --> 00:15:11,519
and he gets
on the table for an hour

260
00:15:11,562 --> 00:15:13,608
so at least
he gets a little bit in,

261
00:15:13,651 --> 00:15:15,262
you know, hopefully every day.

262
00:15:17,264 --> 00:15:20,484
[Terry] If I could just play
foosball, get a big RV,

263
00:15:20,528 --> 00:15:23,531
go see the country
and make a living off of it,

264
00:15:23,574 --> 00:15:25,663
that'd be a dream,
it honestly would.

265
00:15:25,707 --> 00:15:29,145
The challenge for me
was that I had a family

266
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that was budding
and at that point,

267
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I have to provide
specifically for my family.

268
00:15:35,369 --> 00:15:38,763
So my job now as an
anesthetist, I'm the chief

269
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of anesthesia for one
of the biggest hospitals

270
00:15:42,593 --> 00:15:44,595
in the entire region.

271
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[man] Yeah, Terry's a pretty
special cat.

272
00:15:47,381 --> 00:15:50,166
He's always the life of the
party and he was a backup
dancer for Marky Mark.

273
00:15:55,780 --> 00:15:59,523
Pretty much you name it
and he's either done it or
can do it.

274
00:15:59,567 --> 00:16:03,353
He's a spectacular wood worker,
world class foosball player.

275
00:16:03,397 --> 00:16:05,181
I didn't know
that it was a real sport.

276
00:16:05,225 --> 00:16:06,704
I thought
it was just a bar game.

277
00:16:07,183 --> 00:16:08,880
I don't think
I knew what foosball was

278
00:16:08,924 --> 00:16:11,535
when I was growing up,
I don't remember the game.

279
00:16:11,579 --> 00:16:16,236
-Uh, he started playing at
the skating rink I guess.
-Mm-hm. Yup.

280
00:16:16,279 --> 00:16:19,326
and, uh, he would talk about it

281
00:16:19,369 --> 00:16:21,632
and finally I realized
what he was talking about.

282
00:16:25,201 --> 00:16:27,421
Well, Terry is
my brother-in-law.

283
00:16:27,856 --> 00:16:31,120
He, uh, married to
my wife's sister.

284
00:16:33,688 --> 00:16:38,301
He is the best. World champion.

285
00:16:38,345 --> 00:16:41,826
Uh, great guy. He's professional
at everything he does.

286
00:16:44,177 --> 00:16:47,267
[Keisha] The one thing left
is obviously singles.

287
00:16:47,310 --> 00:16:48,659
Good shot.

288
00:16:48,703 --> 00:16:50,487
I, I have no-- I don't even know
how to put it

289
00:16:50,531 --> 00:16:52,446
into words what
it would mean for him.

290
00:16:52,489 --> 00:16:54,839
[accordion music]

291
00:16:54,883 --> 00:16:58,539
I can't even imagine
what he would do if he won.
[chuckles]

292
00:16:58,582 --> 00:17:01,716
He would be almost embarrassing,
he would go so nuts.

293
00:17:04,110 --> 00:17:05,285
[Sullivan] So how do you
feel going

294
00:17:05,328 --> 00:17:07,678
into Open Singles in Worlds?

295
00:17:07,722 --> 00:17:11,639
I feel very good. I've had
a good year and a half
playing, uhm...

296
00:17:12,118 --> 00:17:14,990
and I think I'm peaking at
the right time and I'm excited.

297
00:17:16,687 --> 00:17:17,427
That was good.

298
00:17:19,125 --> 00:17:20,517
[girls giggling]

299
00:17:20,561 --> 00:17:23,172
[accordion music]

300
00:17:30,788 --> 00:17:32,355
-[Cindy] Come on in.
-[woman] Who are you all?

301
00:17:32,399 --> 00:17:35,402
Well, I used to
be an officer down here.

302
00:17:35,967 --> 00:17:38,361
-Just taking
a little tour again.
-Okay.

303
00:17:38,405 --> 00:17:41,364
-Okay, you all have
a good day. Okay.
-Have a good one.

304
00:17:41,408 --> 00:17:43,323
[Jim] Cindy Head is
just so tough.

305
00:17:43,366 --> 00:17:45,107
She's intimidating
to a lot of the ladies.

306
00:17:45,151 --> 00:17:46,935
Everybody knows her reputation.

307
00:17:46,978 --> 00:17:49,068
Hey, how you doing?
You doing okay?

308
00:17:49,111 --> 00:17:51,070
-[man] Yes, ma'am.
-Hey.

309
00:17:51,113 --> 00:17:56,336
She's a beast.
I mean, I've seen her make
many women cry in competition

310
00:17:56,379 --> 00:17:58,773
you know, and, uh, I've seen her
whip up on some guys too.

311
00:17:58,816 --> 00:18:00,644
How you doing?

312
00:18:00,688 --> 00:18:03,299
[Tracy] But you can see
she's fierce.

313
00:18:04,344 --> 00:18:06,302
That's my favorite word
for her, fierce.

314
00:18:07,608 --> 00:18:09,740
I was known for being fair

315
00:18:09,784 --> 00:18:12,395
but I did have a street name
that I was given

316
00:18:13,266 --> 00:18:15,746
from all the local people
and the homeless.

317
00:18:15,790 --> 00:18:19,272
It was Annie Oakley,
because I would

318
00:18:19,315 --> 00:18:21,100
have no problem drawing my gun

319
00:18:21,143 --> 00:18:22,971
and tackling
the biggest bad guy.

320
00:18:29,717 --> 00:18:31,893
[Kelsey] I remember seeing
Cindy play

321
00:18:31,936 --> 00:18:34,461
when I was really young,
because she scored,

322
00:18:34,504 --> 00:18:36,854
it was like, Yeah,
come on, Cindy!

323
00:18:36,898 --> 00:18:38,291
Come on, let's go!"

324
00:18:38,334 --> 00:18:40,380
And would like
slam her point over.

325
00:18:40,423 --> 00:18:43,165
Bam, baby, yes! One more!

326
00:18:43,209 --> 00:18:46,081
[Dawn] The intensity
is incredible.

327
00:18:46,125 --> 00:18:48,431
It just fires her up.

328
00:18:48,475 --> 00:18:51,652
[Cindy] I realize that I am
so intense when I play

329
00:18:51,695 --> 00:18:54,655
and I think
it comes from growing up

330
00:18:54,698 --> 00:18:57,266
and foosball making me
feel like I'm somebody

331
00:18:57,310 --> 00:18:58,920
and that I'm good, I'm a winner.

332
00:19:03,185 --> 00:19:05,579
I grew up in a very poor family

333
00:19:05,622 --> 00:19:07,363
on the wrong side of the tracks

334
00:19:07,407 --> 00:19:10,236
who had a father
that was, uhm, let's just say

335
00:19:10,279 --> 00:19:12,847
not a very positive influence

336
00:19:12,890 --> 00:19:15,415
and there was a game room
in my neighborhood.

337
00:19:15,458 --> 00:19:18,026
Uhm, it was kind of an,
kind of an escape.

338
00:19:18,069 --> 00:19:20,507
It was a place
I could go be safe

339
00:19:20,550 --> 00:19:23,205
and something
that I felt good at

340
00:19:23,249 --> 00:19:25,686
that made me
feel good about myself.

341
00:19:25,729 --> 00:19:29,255
She was probably nine or
ten years old.

342
00:19:29,298 --> 00:19:31,300
She had to stand on a milk crate

343
00:19:31,344 --> 00:19:34,303
to be able to reach the handles,
to be able to play.

344
00:19:34,347 --> 00:19:37,306
I remember
the exact time in my life

345
00:19:37,350 --> 00:19:39,613
when I decided I was
gonna be good at this sport.

346
00:19:39,656 --> 00:19:43,312
As I was a small child
and these three guys walk in

347
00:19:43,356 --> 00:19:45,880
and you know, you're always
trying to find a pick-up game
and I thought

348
00:19:45,923 --> 00:19:49,144
"Hey guys, I'll play,"
and I was all excited

349
00:19:49,188 --> 00:19:52,408
you know, and I remember this
one guy, he looked down at me

350
00:19:52,452 --> 00:19:55,542
and he's like,
"Not this time, sweetheart,

351
00:19:55,585 --> 00:19:59,023
we need somebody a little
better," and it crushed me.

352
00:19:59,067 --> 00:20:03,289
Oh, it hurt my feelings so much
and I remember looking up at him

353
00:20:03,332 --> 00:20:06,640
and thinking, "Mister,
one day you won't
be able to say that to me,"

354
00:20:06,683 --> 00:20:09,947
and every night I would say
I practiced four hours a night

355
00:20:09,991 --> 00:20:13,255
just, you know, five bar,
tic tack from man to man.

356
00:20:14,604 --> 00:20:16,606
I think it was 81 when I went

357
00:20:16,650 --> 00:20:18,695
to the first
world tournament I went to

358
00:20:19,479 --> 00:20:22,308
and I signed in
under Bama's Best

359
00:20:22,351 --> 00:20:25,659
and I beat the doubles
and I actually won the singles.

360
00:20:26,616 --> 00:20:28,923
[man] Well I imagine when
you start as a young lady

361
00:20:28,966 --> 00:20:31,012
in a room full of guys,
you get tired

362
00:20:31,055 --> 00:20:33,580
of being told you can't
and you're a girl

363
00:20:33,623 --> 00:20:36,670
and we're
talking 40 years ago now,

364
00:20:36,713 --> 00:20:41,283
35 years ago, not
very many women played.

365
00:20:41,327 --> 00:20:42,806
You know, there's a
lot of people out there

366
00:20:42,850 --> 00:20:44,895
with sad stories that grow up,

367
00:20:44,939 --> 00:20:48,203
it doesn't define
who you are as a person

368
00:20:48,247 --> 00:20:52,512
but I think what does
is how you choose to
get through those hard times.

369
00:20:52,555 --> 00:20:55,993
Myself and my brother,
we're police officers.

370
00:21:19,190 --> 00:21:21,802
[Mike] Todd Loffredo. I've heard
the comment a few times

371
00:21:21,845 --> 00:21:23,673
that he's the Michael Jordan
of our sport.

372
00:21:23,717 --> 00:21:25,893
Well, nothing
against Michael Jordan

373
00:21:25,936 --> 00:21:29,070
but he doesn't
have anywhere close

374
00:21:29,113 --> 00:21:31,942
to the number of world
championships that
Loffredo does.

375
00:21:31,986 --> 00:21:35,555
He's the Iron Man of our sport.

376
00:21:38,906 --> 00:21:40,734
[Todd] I've lived everywhere.

377
00:21:40,777 --> 00:21:43,650
I got rid of all my
trophies, all that stuff.

378
00:21:43,693 --> 00:21:46,392
I moved so
many times, I got so sick
of lugging those things around.

379
00:21:46,435 --> 00:21:49,046
Took 'em all to the dump one day
and just went, "See you."

380
00:21:53,616 --> 00:21:54,791
It's like Mars out here,
isn't it?

381
00:21:58,142 --> 00:22:00,449
I came to the top of
this mountain and I found Jesus.

382
00:22:02,321 --> 00:22:03,104
Here he is.

383
00:22:05,889 --> 00:22:09,676
I like the spot. I come up to
this spot actually a lot and sit
on this rock.

384
00:22:09,719 --> 00:22:11,199
It's just a comfortable spot.

385
00:22:15,943 --> 00:22:18,162
This rock's been here a while.
[chuckles]

386
00:22:22,428 --> 00:22:25,648
It is, of all the places I've
been, it's nice having
a little hill or something

387
00:22:25,692 --> 00:22:27,955
where you can
get away from everybody.

388
00:22:28,782 --> 00:22:31,219
It's weird, ever
since I've been playing,

389
00:22:31,262 --> 00:22:36,311
Worlds has stood out like
it's really the only tournament.

390
00:22:36,964 --> 00:22:39,619
The rest of them are
just social gatherings.

391
00:22:39,662 --> 00:22:43,057
Worlds is where I figure out
how good I am that year.

392
00:22:44,928 --> 00:22:47,409
See those
pencil markings right there?

393
00:22:47,453 --> 00:22:49,585
Tony does this pass to everybody

394
00:22:49,629 --> 00:22:52,936
so I need to know
exactly where the ball is,

395
00:22:52,980 --> 00:22:58,725
how far from the wall,
and how these markings here

396
00:22:58,768 --> 00:23:00,683
are to reference how far back.

397
00:23:00,727 --> 00:23:02,990
I have this camera right,

398
00:23:04,339 --> 00:23:09,779
oops, right here 'cause
this is about where I'd be
if I was blocking that pass

399
00:23:09,823 --> 00:23:13,435
and then I go over on that side
and pass it and then
when I look at it on tape,

400
00:23:13,479 --> 00:23:15,785
I'm looking at it from
the perspective of the blocker.

401
00:23:15,829 --> 00:23:18,745
The spot,
there's like about two inches

402
00:23:18,788 --> 00:23:20,747
where the guy
really wants to be.

403
00:23:20,790 --> 00:23:23,053
It's actually
helping me defensively

404
00:23:23,097 --> 00:23:24,925
look at all the little nuances

405
00:23:24,968 --> 00:23:26,274
to make sure I get it right.

406
00:23:38,634 --> 00:23:41,463
[Loffredo] So I call it a pull
kick, far wall bank.

407
00:23:41,507 --> 00:23:42,943
And this one's harder to do.

408
00:23:42,986 --> 00:23:44,205
We call it the helicopter.

409
00:24:05,052 --> 00:24:07,054
[soft music]

410
00:24:07,097 --> 00:24:10,100
[presenter] And now a brief
history of table soccer.

411
00:24:10,144 --> 00:24:12,102
While the exact origins of the game are unknown,

412
00:24:12,146 --> 00:24:13,930
primitive versions
have been discovered all

413
00:24:13,974 --> 00:24:16,150
through Europe as early
as the turn of the century.

414
00:24:16,193 --> 00:24:18,326
The first known patent
for a tabletop game

415
00:24:18,369 --> 00:24:20,633
using men on poles
was granted in 1923

416
00:24:20,676 --> 00:24:22,983
to Englishmen
Harold Searles Thornton

417
00:24:23,026 --> 00:24:24,506
who was inspired
by laying matches

418
00:24:24,550 --> 00:24:27,161
across the top of a match box.

419
00:24:27,204 --> 00:24:30,991
The game began to spread through Europe as a recreational game
and was rumored

420
00:24:31,034 --> 00:24:34,211
to be used to rehabilitate
soldiers during the second
World War.

421
00:24:34,255 --> 00:24:37,867
It was around
this time that Americans
got their first exposure.

422
00:24:37,911 --> 00:24:42,002
[Mike] GIs were left in Europe
during the occupation,
forces from World War II.

423
00:24:42,045 --> 00:24:45,396
They picked up the native games
of the countries over there.

424
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,009
Soccer's the number one sport
everywhere except in America.

425
00:24:49,052 --> 00:24:51,446
It's only natural
that they play the game version

426
00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:53,230
of it too which is table soccer.

427
00:25:09,856 --> 00:25:11,553
[Johnny] A gentleman
named Lawrence Patterson

428
00:25:11,597 --> 00:25:14,077
out of Cincinnati, Ohio,
he was in Germany

429
00:25:14,121 --> 00:25:16,166
as an entrepreneur and
he saw how popular it was.

430
00:25:16,210 --> 00:25:19,039
[Mike] He was going
to provide some impetus

431
00:25:19,082 --> 00:25:21,998
for the game being
played in the United States.

432
00:25:22,042 --> 00:25:25,698
[Johnny] So he went straight to
a friend of his in Germany
and set up a licensing

433
00:25:25,741 --> 00:25:27,700
with a German factory
to make him a table

434
00:25:27,743 --> 00:25:30,224
called Foosball Match. Uh,
he ran full page ads

435
00:25:30,267 --> 00:25:32,792
in Life magazine and Esquire
and Playboy.

436
00:25:33,836 --> 00:25:37,144
"Hey Chandler, why do you
think they call it foosball?"

437
00:25:37,187 --> 00:25:40,756
Foosball is the
German name for football.

438
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,846
Foosball tables had
suddenly appeared in every bar.

439
00:25:45,587 --> 00:25:48,068
[Laffredo] They put
foosball tables in my school

440
00:25:48,111 --> 00:25:52,115
and I was on those things all
the time, 12 hours a day.
That's all I did.

441
00:25:52,159 --> 00:25:54,596
[man] You had
foosball come as the new game

442
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,513
and it hit as a fad
and it really hit hard.

443
00:25:58,557 --> 00:26:02,343
[Mike] When I was in college at
a Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity

444
00:26:02,386 --> 00:26:05,259
in Boulder, we put a
foosball table in the basement.

445
00:26:05,302 --> 00:26:10,003
It was just a hotbed of
foosball activity in America,
you know, in the 1970s.

446
00:26:10,046 --> 00:26:12,614
[man] At one time,
there were 19 manufacturers

447
00:26:12,658 --> 00:26:14,834
making different
brands of foosball tables.

448
00:26:14,877 --> 00:26:16,531
There was a tournament
or two or three every night.

449
00:26:16,575 --> 00:26:19,490
[Lee] I saw a very
intense group of players

450
00:26:19,534 --> 00:26:21,710
and started
working promoting foosball.

451
00:26:21,754 --> 00:26:23,712
[Mike] I had heard of this
tournament in Missoula

452
00:26:23,756 --> 00:26:27,107
and it was like over a
thousand dollar tournament

453
00:26:27,673 --> 00:26:29,239
which just
floored me at the time.

454
00:26:29,283 --> 00:26:32,155
The promoter there, Lee Peppard,

455
00:26:32,199 --> 00:26:35,115
had a vision of where he
was gonna take foosball.

456
00:26:35,158 --> 00:26:36,682
They quit skiing,
they quit bowling,

457
00:26:36,725 --> 00:26:38,118
they quit
shooting pool, that they

458
00:26:38,161 --> 00:26:39,989
became total
table soccer players.

459
00:26:40,033 --> 00:26:43,297
You had hope to create
a coin operated sport

460
00:26:43,340 --> 00:26:46,561
that would prevail and that
could run the largest promotion
of history

461
00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:48,258
as far as coin machine.

462
00:26:48,302 --> 00:26:49,608
[Lott]
When he saw the potential of it,

463
00:26:49,651 --> 00:26:51,174
he sold his billiard parlor

464
00:26:51,218 --> 00:26:53,046
and scheduled a
50,000 dollar tournament

465
00:26:53,089 --> 00:26:55,657
in 1974 in Denver.

466
00:26:55,701 --> 00:26:59,313
[Mike] It was the first
international world
championships.

467
00:26:59,356 --> 00:27:02,185
It was to be
held at Elitch Gardens,

468
00:27:02,229 --> 00:27:04,579
our biggest
amusement park in Denver.

469
00:27:04,623 --> 00:27:08,104
There are city champions,
there are regional champions.

470
00:27:08,148 --> 00:27:10,498
Every gunslinger
from every spot,

471
00:27:10,541 --> 00:27:13,066
especially in the western US.

472
00:27:13,501 --> 00:27:15,677
And then
probably about right here.

473
00:27:15,721 --> 00:27:18,375
I'm gonna say
this area right across here

474
00:27:18,419 --> 00:27:20,377
is where the
Trocadero Ballroom would be.

475
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,163
It's all history now.

476
00:27:23,206 --> 00:27:25,469
I probably got back
to my parent's house

477
00:27:25,513 --> 00:27:28,864
about four or five in
the afternoon the next day.

478
00:27:28,908 --> 00:27:29,735
I walked in...

479
00:27:32,128 --> 00:27:35,523
And my mom looked up at me...

480
00:27:38,613 --> 00:27:40,528
and she could see
I had the trophy.

481
00:27:40,571 --> 00:27:41,660
[applauding]

482
00:27:43,749 --> 00:27:45,272
And, sorry.

483
00:27:46,229 --> 00:27:48,579
And I put my check down.

484
00:27:49,537 --> 00:27:52,801
And I go, "When Dad comes in,
show him my check."

485
00:27:52,845 --> 00:27:57,023
I just made over 3000 dollars
in one weekend playing foosball.

486
00:28:00,766 --> 00:28:04,421
It was a tremendous success
and that's where we created
the tour.

487
00:28:04,944 --> 00:28:08,643
[Mike] They were gonna
do the first pro foosball tour

488
00:28:08,687 --> 00:28:11,951
and they were gonna
run tournaments all over the US.

489
00:28:11,994 --> 00:28:14,954
And there was a group of players
that literally got
in their truck, van,

490
00:28:14,997 --> 00:28:16,390
car, whatever, and
just went from tournament

491
00:28:16,433 --> 00:28:18,087
to tournament to tournament.

492
00:28:18,131 --> 00:28:19,785
[Gary] It was just such
a camaraderie

493
00:28:19,828 --> 00:28:21,569
even though when you play them,

494
00:28:21,612 --> 00:28:26,835
it was all like, you know,
no mercy, no mercy.

495
00:28:26,879 --> 00:28:29,490
I was really
a naive kid, you know.

496
00:28:29,533 --> 00:28:33,668
I quit school, moved out,
and just played all the time.

497
00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:35,888
I get all caught up
in the moment again.

498
00:28:38,804 --> 00:28:43,547
There's Jimmy, my partner.
That's when we left
in his 53 Chevy

499
00:28:43,591 --> 00:28:45,941
right after we graduated
from high school.

500
00:28:45,985 --> 00:28:49,684
Yeah, we were heading
out on tour never to return.

501
00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:52,948
And I think this is
a big part of what I
consider the American dream.

502
00:28:52,992 --> 00:28:56,212
There is nothing
like getting in your car

503
00:28:56,256 --> 00:29:01,348
and you're gonna
drive to some big event
that you're passionate about.

504
00:29:01,391 --> 00:29:05,134
You hear all the stories of
table soccer's heyday,
the Tournament Soccer days.

505
00:29:05,178 --> 00:29:07,963
They're giving away cars,
the big money tournaments.

506
00:29:08,007 --> 00:29:11,750
And it grew fast, from
74 to 76, it just went whoosh.

507
00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:16,406
Because of what E. Lee Peppard
and Tournament Soccer did,

508
00:29:16,450 --> 00:29:18,626
they went from a quarter
million dollar tour

509
00:29:18,669 --> 00:29:22,848
to a half million dollar tour
to a million dollar tour.

510
00:29:22,891 --> 00:29:27,635
The winner of the Super Series
gets a Porsche, okay?
Brand new Porsche.

511
00:29:27,678 --> 00:29:31,030
There's a picture of me
after I won the Porsche.

512
00:29:31,073 --> 00:29:33,815
[Tony] We were playing as a job,
seven days a week,

513
00:29:33,859 --> 00:29:36,600
365 days a year.

514
00:29:36,644 --> 00:29:39,908
Foosball was the eighth largest
sport in America.

515
00:29:39,952 --> 00:29:43,651
Probably at the big tournaments,
100 to 200 groupies.

516
00:29:43,694 --> 00:29:45,958
[Doug] You know, you're
20 years old, 19 years old.

517
00:29:46,001 --> 00:29:48,917
We started meeting celebrities.
That was a dream come true.

518
00:29:48,961 --> 00:29:51,615
[Mike] I was in a movie that
Leif Garrett starred in.

519
00:29:51,659 --> 00:29:53,704
Tournament soccer
wanted us in the movie

520
00:29:53,748 --> 00:29:55,706
and so they flew us in.

521
00:29:55,750 --> 00:29:58,666
They thought they were
making Citizen Kane.

522
00:29:58,709 --> 00:30:01,147
"My goalie just ran out on me!
What do you expect me to do?"

523
00:30:01,190 --> 00:30:02,801
Just the corniest thing ever.

524
00:30:04,715 --> 00:30:07,153
I just thought evolution of
foosball was going to

525
00:30:07,196 --> 00:30:11,200
become a permanent fixture
in professional sports.

526
00:30:12,419 --> 00:30:15,639
I was making a decision that I
was not gonna finish my degree.

527
00:30:15,683 --> 00:30:17,337
Instead, I was
gonna play foosball.

528
00:30:19,208 --> 00:30:21,689
What I've always strived to do
is become a professional
foosball player.

529
00:30:22,864 --> 00:30:24,431
I opened up three game rooms.

530
00:30:24,474 --> 00:30:27,347
I put 40 foosball tables
out on location.

531
00:30:27,390 --> 00:30:30,002
That's where
Todd Loffredo came in too.

532
00:30:30,045 --> 00:30:32,439
He's like a 16 year old kid

533
00:30:32,482 --> 00:30:36,530
and he moves right near
the Doc's location
and comes in one day.

534
00:30:36,573 --> 00:30:38,880
I was small and had little arms

535
00:30:38,924 --> 00:30:41,709
and I could slide my arms
up inside the tables

536
00:30:41,752 --> 00:30:44,364
and drop three racks
so I could practice for free

537
00:30:44,407 --> 00:30:46,366
and I remember the very first
pull shot I did,

538
00:30:46,409 --> 00:30:49,804
-I remember Bowers says--
-Wow, your pull shot is
very fast.

539
00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:54,635
He goes, "Yeah, I'm Mike Bowers.
I'm the singles champion"
and he goes, "Yeah,

540
00:30:54,678 --> 00:30:57,377
that's real money and he starts
telling me the purses and--

541
00:30:57,420 --> 00:30:59,858
[Mike] 1977, Schlitz got in

542
00:30:59,901 --> 00:31:02,425
and put a quarter million
dollars behind the World
Championships.

543
00:31:02,469 --> 00:31:06,386
I'm just, I'm liking what I see.

544
00:31:06,429 --> 00:31:08,083
I'm thinking, I'm seeing money.

545
00:31:08,127 --> 00:31:10,085
And he goes, "I want
to be a world champion."

546
00:31:10,129 --> 00:31:12,479
And he goes, "I want you
to help me do it."

547
00:31:12,522 --> 00:31:14,263
I remember
it being a major dream

548
00:31:14,307 --> 00:31:17,136
and I remember
approaching our parents

549
00:31:17,179 --> 00:31:18,354
if we could go or not.

550
00:31:18,398 --> 00:31:21,227
They had 250 tables.

551
00:31:21,270 --> 00:31:24,317
The biggest foosball event I'd
ever seen in my life, you know?

552
00:31:24,752 --> 00:31:26,362
Well, the most unbelievable part

553
00:31:26,406 --> 00:31:28,843
was that nobody really knew us.

554
00:31:28,887 --> 00:31:33,674
Seventeen years old and kind of
a dark horse in the tournament.

555
00:31:33,717 --> 00:31:36,285
Yeah, they just, they went
through the competition

556
00:31:36,329 --> 00:31:38,374
like a hot knife through butter.

557
00:31:38,418 --> 00:31:40,724
He was just this
skinny little punk kid.

558
00:31:40,768 --> 00:31:42,248
How is this possible?

559
00:31:43,031 --> 00:31:46,817
But then, uh, we had to
play him and he beat us.

560
00:31:46,861 --> 00:31:49,690
And I remember Bowers
looking at me and he goes--

561
00:31:49,733 --> 00:31:53,041
The stage is set here, you know,
for you to win this.

562
00:31:53,650 --> 00:31:55,478
I go, "What do you mean?
I don't want to win."

563
00:31:56,088 --> 00:31:58,568
And I hated seeing all
those people looking at me.

564
00:31:58,612 --> 00:32:00,962
I remember the first shot
I took hitting the wall

565
00:32:01,006 --> 00:32:05,488
and I remember thinking,
Jesus, you got all these
people looking at you.

566
00:32:05,532 --> 00:32:08,709
You're in the finals
of a World Championship
and you're hitting the wall.

567
00:32:08,752 --> 00:32:10,667
You get the dry mouth from
breathing through your mouth

568
00:32:10,711 --> 00:32:12,843
-because you're like-- [exhales]
-[man in crowd] Come on, Todd!

569
00:32:13,453 --> 00:32:16,499
And then next thing I remember,

570
00:32:16,543 --> 00:32:19,502
I wasn't sure what to think.
I was so young.

571
00:32:20,112 --> 00:32:22,331
You can only experience
that once.

572
00:32:25,856 --> 00:32:30,818
I really loved foosball. When I
say that, I mean it, like a
woman. I mean I loved the game.

573
00:32:30,861 --> 00:32:36,258
-I remember the song Lady.
You remember that song?
-♪ Lady

574
00:32:36,302 --> 00:32:39,566
I would think about a foosball
table when that song was
being played.

575
00:32:39,609 --> 00:32:44,005
♪ When you're with me
I'm smiling ♪

576
00:32:44,049 --> 00:32:48,531
And I just remembered thinking,
my lady was a foosball table.

577
00:32:48,575 --> 00:32:52,187
That's all I wanted. I just
wanted to be up there in
the spotlight

578
00:32:52,231 --> 00:32:56,583
with that foosball table. For me
that was enough. It's a little
sick but-- [chuckles]

579
00:33:12,555 --> 00:33:15,123
This is a tape
that Tom Spear made.

580
00:33:15,167 --> 00:33:20,259
It's a practice tape and
Tom Spear is a world champion
foosball player

581
00:33:20,302 --> 00:33:25,177
who was extremely good in
the 70s and you could say
he had genius qualities.

582
00:33:25,220 --> 00:33:30,965
Before he went to AWOL
and I was fortunate enough

583
00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:34,273
to live with him and I was
a really undisciplined person

584
00:33:34,316 --> 00:33:36,753
and he came from a real
hardcore military background,

585
00:33:36,797 --> 00:33:38,538
had a lot of discipline.

586
00:33:38,581 --> 00:33:39,930
So I started
listening to this tape

587
00:33:39,974 --> 00:33:42,150
and it helped me a lot

588
00:33:42,194 --> 00:33:45,240
and it teaches you how
not to give your shot away

589
00:33:45,284 --> 00:33:47,329
and you're not
supposed to move anything,

590
00:33:47,373 --> 00:33:49,462
not a finger, no readjustments,

591
00:33:49,505 --> 00:33:51,551
get comfortable and shoot it.

592
00:33:51,594 --> 00:33:54,684
So give you an idea if
I get the right side in.

593
00:33:59,559 --> 00:34:02,431
[Tom] Ball in position,
Fifteen seconds.

594
00:34:04,172 --> 00:34:06,479
Ball in position.

595
00:34:06,522 --> 00:34:07,654
Fast.

596
00:34:20,493 --> 00:34:21,581
Middle.

597
00:34:22,147 --> 00:34:24,540
[Tom] Twelve second middle.

598
00:34:24,584 --> 00:34:25,324
Ready.

599
00:34:26,151 --> 00:34:27,065
Pass.

600
00:34:35,334 --> 00:34:37,988
[Kathy] It's the 70s when
foosball was exploding.

601
00:34:38,032 --> 00:34:39,164
[Tom] Ball.

602
00:34:40,687 --> 00:34:43,864
[Kathy] We were all dreamers,
we were living our dream.

603
00:34:43,907 --> 00:34:45,387
Life was about foosball.

604
00:34:45,431 --> 00:34:48,521
It was truly like a religion

605
00:34:48,564 --> 00:34:51,828
and we were out
spreading the gospel.

606
00:34:51,872 --> 00:34:54,309
You just wanted to be
bigger and better every year.

607
00:35:01,882 --> 00:35:04,406
Tournament soccer was doing that

608
00:35:04,450 --> 00:35:05,712
and we were buying into it.

609
00:35:07,061 --> 00:35:12,632
♪ Well the time has come

610
00:35:12,675 --> 00:35:15,461
♪ So put your best gloves on

611
00:35:18,116 --> 00:35:20,901
♪ Pull your hat down low

612
00:35:20,944 --> 00:35:23,425
♪ You're ready

613
00:35:23,469 --> 00:35:26,428
♪ Who's gonna get it

614
00:35:26,472 --> 00:35:30,345
♪ Who's gonna win that car

615
00:35:33,261 --> 00:35:36,699
At a certain point, probably all
should've realized it can't

616
00:35:36,743 --> 00:35:39,267
just keep
getting bigger forever.

617
00:35:40,225 --> 00:35:44,446
Right around 1980 is
when video games were invented.

618
00:35:45,708 --> 00:35:49,364
[Lee] A foosball table,
good foosball table would
make 120 dollars a week.

619
00:35:49,408 --> 00:35:52,585
A good Space Invader
would make 600 dollars a week

620
00:35:52,628 --> 00:35:55,762
with a lot less maintenance
responsibility on
the Space Invader.

621
00:35:56,676 --> 00:35:59,679
The foosball table required more
maintenance than any
other piece.

622
00:35:59,722 --> 00:36:03,204
So are you gonna go over there
and play that tournament
soccer table that's got

623
00:36:03,248 --> 00:36:07,817
a bent rod and broken men
and balls missing or a Pac-Man
that works that's brand new?

624
00:36:07,861 --> 00:36:09,428
So it wasn't even a fair fight.

625
00:36:09,471 --> 00:36:13,127
The table sales
started plummeting big time.

626
00:36:13,171 --> 00:36:17,218
At one point they were selling
about 5000 tables a month
and overnight,

627
00:36:17,262 --> 00:36:20,134
they went from
1000 coin tables to 100

628
00:36:20,178 --> 00:36:21,744
and it stayed at 100.

629
00:36:22,310 --> 00:36:25,922
The attendance started declining
at the foosball tournaments

630
00:36:25,966 --> 00:36:28,577
and you had
declining foosball sales

631
00:36:28,621 --> 00:36:32,190
so in 81, they ran
the foosball tournament

632
00:36:32,233 --> 00:36:35,845
in conjunction
with Atari video games.

633
00:36:35,889 --> 00:36:37,804
It's like if you can't
beat 'em, join 'em.

634
00:36:37,847 --> 00:36:40,198
Tournament soccer's hope
was that they'll

635
00:36:40,241 --> 00:36:42,069
bring in tons of
players and tons of money

636
00:36:42,112 --> 00:36:45,246
and tons of publicity and
just be win-win for everybody.

637
00:36:45,290 --> 00:36:46,987
They were preparing
for thousands of people

638
00:36:47,030 --> 00:36:48,989
and 200 kids
showed up on the video game.

639
00:36:51,731 --> 00:36:54,212
[Mike] There wasn't enough cash

640
00:36:54,255 --> 00:36:57,127
and that weekend,
in one fell swoop,

641
00:36:57,171 --> 00:36:58,868
Tournament soccer
went down the tubes.

642
00:37:00,914 --> 00:37:04,265
[Kathy] People just felt
that if Tournament soccer

643
00:37:04,309 --> 00:37:08,530
was going out of business,
that life was over.

644
00:37:12,447 --> 00:37:17,147
And one of the most uh,
one of the most dramatic
eventful things

645
00:37:17,191 --> 00:37:19,280
in the history of
pro foosball happened,

646
00:37:19,324 --> 00:37:21,326
the great Jim Wiswell
committed suicide.

647
00:37:22,762 --> 00:37:23,937
[Doug] Your best
friend and your partner,

648
00:37:23,980 --> 00:37:25,852
all of a sudden he's gone.

649
00:37:25,895 --> 00:37:28,985
So life took quite a turn
for the worse at that point.

650
00:37:30,465 --> 00:37:32,337
[Mike] It was
a very depressing time.

651
00:37:32,380 --> 00:37:34,904
The rest of us didn't, you know,

652
00:37:34,948 --> 00:37:36,645
we floundered, we floundered.

653
00:37:36,689 --> 00:37:38,473
It's like
somebody opened the back door

654
00:37:38,517 --> 00:37:40,910
of a bus and pushed
you out and said, "Well,

655
00:37:40,954 --> 00:37:42,608
good luck,
you're starting all over."

656
00:37:44,436 --> 00:37:47,613
[Lee] The greatest period of
my life with the worst ending.

657
00:37:49,354 --> 00:37:53,183
That's how I would define
my involvement with foosball.

658
00:37:55,882 --> 00:37:56,709
I failed.

659
00:38:05,979 --> 00:38:09,330
You didn't quite
believe that the 81 fiasco

660
00:38:09,374 --> 00:38:11,854
was gonna be the end of it,
and you know,

661
00:38:11,898 --> 00:38:13,247
it wasn't the end of it.

662
00:38:13,900 --> 00:38:16,903
In the 1980s, there
were people that stepped up

663
00:38:16,946 --> 00:38:19,253
and kept the promotion going.

664
00:38:19,297 --> 00:38:21,516
They just couldn't
do it on the same scale.

665
00:38:22,517 --> 00:38:24,171
[Doug] You go from being
the best in the world

666
00:38:24,214 --> 00:38:26,086
to working
for five dollars an hour

667
00:38:26,129 --> 00:38:28,393
cutting wood at a lumber mill.

668
00:38:28,436 --> 00:38:31,309
[Lott] The top players
just kept quitting.

669
00:38:31,352 --> 00:38:33,180
Every year more would quit

670
00:38:33,223 --> 00:38:35,878
but Todd managed
to be the one still left

671
00:38:35,922 --> 00:38:37,140
from this great era.

672
00:38:44,713 --> 00:38:48,326
♪ Happy birthday to you

673
00:38:48,369 --> 00:38:53,287
-♪ Happy birthday, dear Todd
-What are the numbers.

674
00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:56,856
♪ Happy birthday to you

675
00:38:58,205 --> 00:39:00,468
-[laughing]
-[man] Alright. Can you blow
out the candles?

676
00:39:00,512 --> 00:39:01,687
You're a
little late on the lighting.

677
00:39:01,730 --> 00:39:03,819
Just assume that they're lit.

678
00:39:03,863 --> 00:39:05,386
-Blow them out.
-That they were lit.

679
00:39:05,430 --> 00:39:06,561
Here, I'll light my own.

680
00:39:06,605 --> 00:39:08,346
-Alright.
-[laughter]

681
00:39:08,389 --> 00:39:10,739
[Loffredo] You can see it when
somebody's 19 or 20

682
00:39:10,783 --> 00:39:12,915
and they really are
into something,

683
00:39:12,959 --> 00:39:16,658
their spirit, and I'm
talking the inner spirit,

684
00:39:17,529 --> 00:39:20,706
it's different than
when you look at a 50 year old.

685
00:39:20,749 --> 00:39:24,579
If you lose that,
I think it makes you old.

686
00:39:24,623 --> 00:39:27,234
I realized
that I don't want to quit.

687
00:39:27,277 --> 00:39:32,544
Once you give up, Jesus,
you start rolling down the hill.

688
00:39:32,587 --> 00:39:37,505
Pretty soon it's so far,
you see those guys way up there,
you have no chance.

689
00:39:37,549 --> 00:39:39,464
Usually, Worlds is
just a consuming thought.

690
00:39:39,507 --> 00:39:41,291
I 'm changing my
singles game so I'm trying

691
00:39:41,335 --> 00:39:42,815
to structure my thoughts.

692
00:39:44,338 --> 00:39:46,949
I've always been the type
person that I go down

693
00:39:46,993 --> 00:39:50,736
and I practice something because
I'm almost good enough to
beat everybody all the time.

694
00:39:52,041 --> 00:39:53,608
But I'm not quite there.

695
00:39:54,217 --> 00:39:56,655
Foosball players
are all obsessive.

696
00:39:57,133 --> 00:40:00,049
And if you get satisfied,
you've found your favorite meal,

697
00:40:00,093 --> 00:40:02,095
you don't have to
look any further.

698
00:40:02,138 --> 00:40:03,966
I'm not gonna let that happen.

699
00:40:04,010 --> 00:40:06,055
[dramatic music]

700
00:40:15,630 --> 00:40:17,980
[woman] You're
all ready for Worlds or--

701
00:40:18,024 --> 00:40:20,243
[Robert]
Well, I'm where I should be
and I've had years in the past

702
00:40:20,287 --> 00:40:22,332
where I clearly
peaked too early.

703
00:40:22,376 --> 00:40:24,204
-Sure.
-You know, I'm just practicing
too hard, too early

704
00:40:24,247 --> 00:40:26,119
-and then,
the tournament came around.
-Sure.

705
00:40:26,162 --> 00:40:28,034
It's like I was playing
better two weeks ago,
you know, so.

706
00:40:28,948 --> 00:40:31,298
You know, I'll be at
least doing some drills everyday

707
00:40:32,038 --> 00:40:34,997
-and just getting ready.
Watching a lot of video.
-[woman] Yeah.

708
00:40:35,041 --> 00:40:37,435
[Robert] I've been watching some
good defensive video lately too.

709
00:40:37,478 --> 00:40:39,480
[announcer]
Best three out of five.

710
00:40:39,524 --> 00:40:43,484
-The winner advances
to the round of 16.
-Hm.

711
00:40:43,528 --> 00:40:45,878
[announcer] And Esterbauer on
the scoreboard first for his
team.

712
00:40:45,921 --> 00:40:47,140
I got to check that out.

713
00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:51,057
Big Boy hammered that thing.

714
00:40:53,494 --> 00:40:56,845
[announcer] Best three out of
five, the winner advances to
the round of 16.

715
00:40:58,325 --> 00:41:00,588
Good for
the foos brain for sure.

716
00:41:00,632 --> 00:41:04,070
[announcer] ...scoreboard
first for his team. A bit slow start to this match.

717
00:41:04,810 --> 00:41:07,726
[Robert] I think I was a pretty
typical teenager, kid, whatever.

718
00:41:07,769 --> 00:41:09,031
I was always at arcades.

719
00:41:09,075 --> 00:41:11,120
I was more into the video games.

720
00:41:11,164 --> 00:41:13,514
Pac-Man or
Donkey Kong Jr. or whatever.

721
00:41:13,558 --> 00:41:15,385
Classic 80s stuff.

722
00:41:15,429 --> 00:41:18,824
And they made an announcement
that they were

723
00:41:18,867 --> 00:41:23,611
giving away the crappy
foosball table in the corner
that no one even played on.

724
00:41:23,655 --> 00:41:25,570
They just wanted
that thing out of there.

725
00:41:25,613 --> 00:41:27,528
He called me and he said, "Mom,

726
00:41:27,572 --> 00:41:31,140
I just won a foosball table
in a raffle."

727
00:41:31,184 --> 00:41:32,794
That's where it started.

728
00:41:32,838 --> 00:41:35,536
[Robert] You know, I didn't even
have concept of tournaments

729
00:41:35,580 --> 00:41:37,712
and pro foosball player
and stuff like that.

730
00:41:37,756 --> 00:41:39,540
I didn't even know that
existed, you know, for years.

731
00:41:41,977 --> 00:41:43,022
That was a good shot.

732
00:41:43,065 --> 00:41:44,240
I got to see that again.

733
00:41:45,894 --> 00:41:48,331
There was a time period
there in the early 80s

734
00:41:48,375 --> 00:41:50,116
that we didn't
really know where the sport

735
00:41:50,159 --> 00:41:50,986
was gonna go.

736
00:41:52,248 --> 00:41:54,773
And when
the foosball market began

737
00:41:54,816 --> 00:41:58,820
to get some traction,
you saw Tornado, Dynamo

738
00:41:58,864 --> 00:42:01,606
compete for what was
left of the foosball market.

739
00:42:01,649 --> 00:42:03,564
[Kathy] Wasn't quite the same
and it was smaller amounts

740
00:42:03,608 --> 00:42:06,741
of money but the tour came back.

741
00:42:06,785 --> 00:42:09,570
[Mike] And they tried to
run a dual World Championship,

742
00:42:09,614 --> 00:42:11,964
just seeing which table

743
00:42:12,007 --> 00:42:13,922
the players were gonna play on.

744
00:42:13,966 --> 00:42:16,795
[Johnny] Tornado came up
dominant and ended up

745
00:42:16,838 --> 00:42:19,014
being the winner of
this battle of all these tables

746
00:42:19,058 --> 00:42:22,670
and they kicked Dynamo out
and it's been theirs
ever since.

747
00:42:22,714 --> 00:42:27,632
Tornado was a Texas table.
They were the Neiman Marcus
as far as foosball.

748
00:42:28,763 --> 00:42:33,115
Now we've whittled it down to
one table and we're playing on
the Tornado foosball table now.

749
00:42:33,159 --> 00:42:35,596
It's being played
all across the country.

750
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:37,685
[Mike] Those were
the years that the sport

751
00:42:37,729 --> 00:42:41,123
was really beginning to resurge.
Foosball was growing.

752
00:42:41,167 --> 00:42:44,562
It was the right time to
play if you weren't in the 70s,

753
00:42:44,605 --> 00:42:46,564
the late 80s,
early 90s were pretty good.

754
00:42:51,481 --> 00:42:54,093
[Robert] I got into
the tournament scene.
I just can't believe it.

755
00:42:54,136 --> 00:42:55,834
There's that many people that
love what I love

756
00:42:55,877 --> 00:42:58,488
and it's
such an underground thing.

757
00:42:58,532 --> 00:43:00,447
We call it foos-aholic. They've
got it, they can't get it out.

758
00:43:00,490 --> 00:43:03,755
[laughing]

759
00:43:03,798 --> 00:43:06,584
You don't spin the rods,
you flick it.

760
00:43:07,193 --> 00:43:11,676
[woman] While video games still dominate arcades and game rooms, foosball is making a comeback,

761
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:14,983
this time with a new table
and a new controversial shot.

762
00:43:17,682 --> 00:43:20,772
-It's call it a front pin
or a wrist rocket.
-The flipper.

763
00:43:20,815 --> 00:43:23,035
-The monkey shot.
-It's called the snake shot.

764
00:43:23,078 --> 00:43:26,821
This shot revolutionized
the game. It changed everyone.

765
00:43:26,865 --> 00:43:30,085
It made players able
to compete immediately.

766
00:43:30,825 --> 00:43:34,437
What you're doing is
you're putting your man
on top of the ball

767
00:43:34,481 --> 00:43:38,398
and then you just spin it
and hit it straight in.

768
00:43:38,441 --> 00:43:42,794
So it's a controlled spin,
it's not a free spin
but it's still a spin.

769
00:43:42,837 --> 00:43:45,448
First thing I did is
go back to the rule book,

770
00:43:45,492 --> 00:43:47,755
saw that the rules said the man

771
00:43:47,799 --> 00:43:50,715
cannot do a 360 before
or after he touches the ball

772
00:43:50,758 --> 00:43:53,152
and since the ball
is in the pin position,

773
00:43:53,195 --> 00:43:55,241
it can't possibly
do a full revolution

774
00:43:55,284 --> 00:43:57,896
from the time it leaves it
to the time it hits it

775
00:43:57,939 --> 00:44:00,420
and so it was
instantly a legal shot.

776
00:44:00,463 --> 00:44:03,684
A lot of people out there
getting really, you know, mad,

777
00:44:03,728 --> 00:44:06,774
getting ugly, and I go,
"What'd I tell you?"

778
00:44:14,739 --> 00:44:17,350
I 'm Terry Moore, my shot is the
roll over or the snake shot,

779
00:44:17,393 --> 00:44:21,528
and I was pretty much
the first guy to win with it.

780
00:44:21,571 --> 00:44:23,617
I remember back then
I wanted to shoot a pull shot

781
00:44:23,661 --> 00:44:27,577
because back then like 90% of
the players all shot pull shots.

782
00:44:27,621 --> 00:44:29,449
A pull shot,
just think about it,

783
00:44:29,492 --> 00:44:31,625
I'm pulling and shooting.

784
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:33,192
Pull shot.

785
00:44:33,235 --> 00:44:36,543
You pull the ball
towards the opening

786
00:44:36,586 --> 00:44:38,806
and you strike it.
Pretty soon you're gonna be

787
00:44:38,850 --> 00:44:41,591
at the World Championships
getting all the fame and glory.

788
00:44:42,592 --> 00:44:44,725
Terry was on his way
and I know this interview's

789
00:44:44,769 --> 00:44:46,422
not about Terry
but you got to understand,

790
00:44:46,466 --> 00:44:48,337
the guy had an impact on me.

791
00:44:48,381 --> 00:44:52,428
Terry's dedication was
to put everything he owned

792
00:44:52,472 --> 00:44:57,172
into storage and getting
this little crappy little car

793
00:44:57,216 --> 00:45:02,264
and tour around
the nation playing foosball
because he was just that hooked.

794
00:45:02,308 --> 00:45:04,266
I'm like, you know what?
This is what I'm gonna do.

795
00:45:04,310 --> 00:45:05,877
I'm gonna drive something that's
a little more comfortable.

796
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,009
Terry comes rolling up
in a brand new van.

797
00:45:08,488 --> 00:45:09,445
[crash]

798
00:45:09,489 --> 00:45:11,709
[upbeat music]

799
00:45:13,145 --> 00:45:14,886
He's like, "Dude, I really
want to get in the van

800
00:45:14,929 --> 00:45:16,278
with you guys,
I want to go with you."

801
00:45:16,322 --> 00:45:18,193
'Cause I wanted to. I just

802
00:45:18,237 --> 00:45:20,065
didn't think I could, you know.

803
00:45:20,108 --> 00:45:22,328
It just seemed too good
to be true. So I did.

804
00:45:22,807 --> 00:45:25,418
Put all my stuff in my mom's
storage, I let my lease go out.

805
00:45:25,461 --> 00:45:28,943
-Told my roomie I'm out.
-[Terry] And then off we went.

806
00:45:28,987 --> 00:45:31,032
He had so much enthusiasm.
It was like Christmas morning

807
00:45:31,076 --> 00:45:33,295
when I told him he
could come in the van.

808
00:45:33,339 --> 00:45:36,081
We would pick up occasional
players from time to time.

809
00:45:36,124 --> 00:45:38,648
Dropped out of high school
when I was about 16

810
00:45:38,692 --> 00:45:41,086
and I just start traveling.

811
00:45:41,129 --> 00:45:43,262
I traveled with
Rob Mares and Terry Moore

812
00:45:43,305 --> 00:45:48,223
and Evan Stachelek
and eventually Tommy Adkisson.

813
00:45:48,267 --> 00:45:50,791
Oh, everyone thought it was
the coolest thing ever,
you know.

814
00:45:51,313 --> 00:45:54,229
Got to be like
an arena football player

815
00:45:54,273 --> 00:45:56,144
or a minor
league baseball player.

816
00:45:56,841 --> 00:45:59,147
[Charles] We had as many
as 1200 players show up

817
00:45:59,191 --> 00:46:01,628
in the mid-90s for
World Championships again.

818
00:46:03,891 --> 00:46:05,763
[Mike] But it never got
back to that kind of money

819
00:46:05,806 --> 00:46:08,374
and once decades go by,
even if you're

820
00:46:08,417 --> 00:46:09,984
at the same money,
you're at less money.

821
00:46:12,204 --> 00:46:15,207
[Tommy]
We were on ESPN a couple times.

822
00:46:15,250 --> 00:46:19,124
They did a deal on ESPN Ocho.
[chuckles]

823
00:46:20,516 --> 00:46:21,604
The eight.

824
00:46:22,954 --> 00:46:25,086
Which I don't even know
if that's still around

825
00:46:26,087 --> 00:46:28,394
but, uh, they did a pretty
cool piece actually,

826
00:46:28,437 --> 00:46:30,613
that year, at the 96 Worlds.

827
00:46:31,223 --> 00:46:32,746
[announcer] Robert Mares goes
in search

828
00:46:32,790 --> 00:46:34,835
of his doubles partner,
Tommy Adkisson.

829
00:46:34,879 --> 00:46:37,403
Their enthusiasm rises
with each goal.

830
00:46:38,447 --> 00:46:41,146
Shutting down their opponents,
they win the title

831
00:46:41,189 --> 00:46:42,887
and 15000--

832
00:46:44,323 --> 00:46:45,454
[phone ringing]

833
00:46:45,498 --> 00:46:49,676
[Tommy]
Oh my, we're gonna reject.

834
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:54,550
-[announcer] ...dollars.
-Yes! King of the World!

835
00:46:54,594 --> 00:46:57,249
We did it, we did it, we did it!

836
00:47:00,339 --> 00:47:02,080
[country music]

837
00:47:10,305 --> 00:47:13,613
Everybody at the time, when it
was sold, was like wow,
the tournaments can get bigger

838
00:47:13,656 --> 00:47:16,703
if they do it right and
kind of the opposite happened.

839
00:47:16,746 --> 00:47:19,967
They didn't-- It didn't really
grow at all and it actually
started decreasing.

840
00:47:21,751 --> 00:47:24,058
[chattering]

841
00:47:29,455 --> 00:47:31,805
[Tommy] Well, it would
be nice if we could

842
00:47:31,849 --> 00:47:33,372
make a living playing foosball.

843
00:47:33,415 --> 00:47:35,853
I would love to
play foosball for a living.

844
00:47:50,389 --> 00:47:51,477
[screaming]

845
00:47:53,131 --> 00:47:57,396
[announcer] The 1996
World Open Doubles Champions

846
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,269
are Rob Mares
and Tommy Adkisson.

847
00:48:02,314 --> 00:48:04,490
[cheering]

848
00:48:07,536 --> 00:48:11,279
[Vicky] Robert's a blue collar
guy and he owns
this awning company.

849
00:48:11,323 --> 00:48:15,501
That's what he does for a living
so I don't really see him doing
foosball for a living

850
00:48:15,544 --> 00:48:18,896
even though he spends a lot of
time, you know, touring
and stuff.

851
00:48:18,939 --> 00:48:22,073
He really has accomplished
pretty much everything
he's wanted to.

852
00:48:22,116 --> 00:48:24,118
First Worlds
trophy's got to be one

853
00:48:24,162 --> 00:48:28,122
of the sweetest,
especially such a big trophy

854
00:48:28,166 --> 00:48:29,950
and everything
and I've been fortunate enough

855
00:48:29,994 --> 00:48:33,823
to acquire around
100 jackets at this point.

856
00:48:33,867 --> 00:48:36,261
How can
this not be your favorite?

857
00:48:36,304 --> 00:48:38,437
Player of the year
trophy right here.

858
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:42,571
How could that not be
a favorite, you know?
What an honor.

859
00:48:42,615 --> 00:48:45,444
This right here
is a World Cup trophy

860
00:48:45,487 --> 00:48:48,577
that the men's team
won in France.

861
00:48:48,621 --> 00:48:51,363
How could that not be
the sweetest trophy in here,
you know?

862
00:48:52,190 --> 00:48:55,802
This is the current Open
Doubles World Champion trophy.

863
00:48:55,845 --> 00:48:57,804
How can that not be the coolest
one in here, you know?

864
00:48:57,847 --> 00:49:00,981
So again, I'm not
gonna try to pick one.

865
00:49:01,025 --> 00:49:04,637
This is my first major
I ever won, master singles.

866
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:07,292
How could that not be the
favorite? You know. [laughing]

867
00:49:07,335 --> 00:49:11,252
So again, they all
have special, special meaning

868
00:49:11,296 --> 00:49:12,471
and some of
the ones might not always

869
00:49:12,514 --> 00:49:14,473
bring back victory moments.

870
00:49:14,516 --> 00:49:16,344
You might have
a second place in there

871
00:49:16,388 --> 00:49:19,260
but you know, I don't get
as wrapped up in that.

872
00:49:20,696 --> 00:49:23,221
He's gotten second
in singles six times.

873
00:49:23,873 --> 00:49:25,963
That's probably as good
as a win, you know.

874
00:49:26,006 --> 00:49:28,008
I should
give him credit for a win

875
00:49:28,052 --> 00:49:30,532
but gosh, I'd like to see him
step in there one time

876
00:49:30,576 --> 00:49:32,621
and pull that singles down.

877
00:49:32,665 --> 00:49:35,581
That's his Moby Dick,
trying to win Worlds

878
00:49:35,624 --> 00:49:37,496
and that's what he's chasing.

879
00:49:39,889 --> 00:49:40,673
[clank]

880
00:49:41,587 --> 00:49:44,198
Four more, two each way.

881
00:49:44,242 --> 00:49:46,679
[gentle music]

882
00:49:50,770 --> 00:49:54,469
[Terry]
I kind of, at this point,
before a major tournament,

883
00:49:54,513 --> 00:49:59,213
I've already done
all the, just rigorous,
hit the ball, hit the ball.

884
00:49:59,257 --> 00:50:01,824
Right now, I'm
focusing on ball depth.

885
00:50:01,868 --> 00:50:04,523
Everything being perfect,
the texture right,

886
00:50:04,566 --> 00:50:06,133
and just having fun
and kind of getting

887
00:50:06,177 --> 00:50:07,482
into playing with the table.

888
00:50:09,658 --> 00:50:12,792
And then I always
practice five man shots.

889
00:50:14,359 --> 00:50:15,490
[clank]

890
00:50:16,056 --> 00:50:18,363
Right off the drop. After that,

891
00:50:18,406 --> 00:50:20,930
I typically go to
the goalie area

892
00:50:20,974 --> 00:50:23,020
and start practicing
ball control drills

893
00:50:23,063 --> 00:50:24,499
and shooting out the back.

894
00:50:25,413 --> 00:50:27,894
I do a calendar
kind of thing every month

895
00:50:27,937 --> 00:50:30,549
and I mark off
each day that I practice

896
00:50:30,592 --> 00:50:32,159
so that I know
that I practiced that day.

897
00:50:33,117 --> 00:50:36,685
Little Sully Bear,
her practice, it's amazing.

898
00:50:36,729 --> 00:50:39,079
You can be sitting from
a long day of work, tired,

899
00:50:39,123 --> 00:50:41,081
and all you hear, bam, bam, bam,

900
00:50:41,125 --> 00:50:43,214
and then you walk in
and she's got a board

901
00:50:43,257 --> 00:50:45,651
on the wall where
she's checking off all

902
00:50:45,694 --> 00:50:48,306
of her goals that she
wanted to do for that day.

903
00:50:48,349 --> 00:50:53,920
She's currently doing
1050 passes a day right now.

904
00:50:54,877 --> 00:50:57,228
[Sullivan] My dad just always
says it's good to practice

905
00:50:57,271 --> 00:50:58,490
like if you want to win a lot

906
00:50:59,447 --> 00:51:01,449
and so I just do it.

907
00:51:01,493 --> 00:51:03,321
He never tells,
no one ever tells me to.

908
00:51:03,364 --> 00:51:05,192
I just do it,
'cause I want to be better.

909
00:51:07,673 --> 00:51:11,111
[Cindy] You know, I think we
need new, younger players.

910
00:51:11,155 --> 00:51:12,808
We're getting older
and we're not gonna always

911
00:51:12,852 --> 00:51:13,679
be able to play.

912
00:51:15,507 --> 00:51:17,422
One of the things
that hurts foosball

913
00:51:17,465 --> 00:51:19,772
is you really don't have
game rooms

914
00:51:19,815 --> 00:51:21,513
like you did
when I was growing up

915
00:51:21,556 --> 00:51:23,689
so it's not
like your kid can come out

916
00:51:23,732 --> 00:51:25,691
to a local game room
and play foosball

917
00:51:25,734 --> 00:51:28,389
'cause you really
don't have that anymore.

918
00:51:28,433 --> 00:51:30,739
There used to be
game rooms everywhere.

919
00:51:30,783 --> 00:51:33,264
It helped foosball
a lot because you always

920
00:51:33,307 --> 00:51:35,614
had a new crop
of players coming up.

921
00:51:37,137 --> 00:51:41,010
I t 's kind of sad in a way
but a foosball table is
an odd thing.

922
00:51:41,054 --> 00:51:44,710
It's like... if you gave
somebody a guitar,

923
00:51:45,711 --> 00:51:47,234
would they know
what to do with it?

924
00:51:47,278 --> 00:51:50,324
Would they really realize
the potential of that guitar

925
00:51:50,368 --> 00:51:52,283
if they've
never seen anybody play it?

926
00:51:53,110 --> 00:51:56,113
[Kelsey] I would love for it
to become a bona fide sport.

927
00:51:56,156 --> 00:51:59,246
There's so many people who shit
on it and if I call it a sport,
they're like, "It's a game."

928
00:51:59,290 --> 00:52:00,769
And I'm like,
"No, it's a sport."

929
00:52:00,813 --> 00:52:02,206
Like this is a real thing.

930
00:52:02,989 --> 00:52:04,773
[Mike] There is no
publicity in foosball,

931
00:52:04,817 --> 00:52:07,341
that's not something
they cover on sports

932
00:52:07,385 --> 00:52:10,214
and to Mary Moore's credit,

933
00:52:10,257 --> 00:52:14,435
her and Brendan Flaherty,
you know, the sole
promoters left,

934
00:52:14,479 --> 00:52:16,263
keeping it alive on pulse power.

935
00:52:17,830 --> 00:52:21,225
We do about 15 to 16
tournaments a year.

936
00:52:21,268 --> 00:52:25,925
We, uh, you know, charge X
amount of dollars per player
depending on your ranking.

937
00:52:25,968 --> 00:52:28,188
Then of course
your payouts are generated

938
00:52:28,232 --> 00:52:29,798
from entry fees.

939
00:52:29,842 --> 00:52:32,149
[Brendan] Without sponsors,
okay, you have

940
00:52:32,192 --> 00:52:34,368
to be funded solely by
the players

941
00:52:34,412 --> 00:52:36,457
and if you're funded
solely by the players,

942
00:52:36,501 --> 00:52:40,200
it's not a growing project,
it's a shrinking project.

943
00:52:41,245 --> 00:52:43,725
[Mary] A lot of the sport goes
to the players that we have

944
00:52:43,769 --> 00:52:45,858
today that are
in their 40s and 50s.

945
00:52:45,901 --> 00:52:48,861
Many of them had that dream
of being a professional
foosball player

946
00:52:48,904 --> 00:52:50,732
and making a living off of that

947
00:52:50,776 --> 00:52:53,213
but they haven't
had that opportunity, you know,

948
00:52:53,257 --> 00:52:56,651
in the last 30 years
to win as much money.

949
00:52:56,695 --> 00:52:58,697
Foosball in the States has gone

950
00:52:58,740 --> 00:53:02,179
through a series
of those golden eras

951
00:53:03,049 --> 00:53:05,617
and we're always waiting
for the next golden era.

952
00:53:12,624 --> 00:53:14,800
[announcer] Twenty of the great
table soccer nations

953
00:53:14,843 --> 00:53:18,195
in the world competing in a team versus team competition here
in Hamburg.

954
00:53:35,124 --> 00:53:37,431
First of all, over
in Europe soccer's huge,

955
00:53:37,475 --> 00:53:39,216
so table soccer's huge.

956
00:53:39,259 --> 00:53:42,523
As IFP, we had
a real bad couple years

957
00:53:42,567 --> 00:53:44,438
with the sport struggling.

958
00:53:44,482 --> 00:53:47,006
We were about ready
to shut down ourselves.

959
00:53:47,049 --> 00:53:50,618
My goal is to keep the sport
going in the United States

960
00:53:50,662 --> 00:53:52,838
and that someday,
our master players

961
00:53:52,881 --> 00:53:55,014
can have that living
that they've always dreamed of.

962
00:53:55,057 --> 00:53:57,234
These kids, that's our future.

963
00:53:57,277 --> 00:53:59,105
Tony's father
is a foosball player

964
00:53:59,148 --> 00:54:01,760
and my son, Ryan, you know,
he's been my motivation

965
00:54:01,803 --> 00:54:03,805
to keep the sport going.

966
00:54:03,849 --> 00:54:05,372
We have
another player, Billy Pappas,

967
00:54:05,416 --> 00:54:08,070
they're all second
generation foosball brats

968
00:54:08,114 --> 00:54:10,334
as we call them,
so their parents were players

969
00:54:10,377 --> 00:54:12,814
and they've been around
foosball their whole life.

970
00:54:12,858 --> 00:54:17,036
I come from some weird DNA.
My parents met playing

971
00:54:17,079 --> 00:54:21,258
-in a professional
foosball tournament.
-[audience laughing]

972
00:54:21,301 --> 00:54:24,826
So if you're embarrassed you met
your spouse on Tinder,
could be worse.

973
00:54:24,870 --> 00:54:26,480
[audience laughing]

974
00:54:26,524 --> 00:54:28,874
[Kathy] My daughter Kelsey,
I'm very proud of,

975
00:54:28,917 --> 00:54:32,312
with her career
in working at night,

976
00:54:32,356 --> 00:54:35,228
having to travel,
usually if she's gonna go

977
00:54:35,272 --> 00:54:38,100
to a foosball tournament, she's
giving up her weekend to work.

978
00:54:39,101 --> 00:54:44,324
Reality hit, they all had to get
real jobs even though some kept
playing. We have Tony Spredeman

979
00:54:44,368 --> 00:54:48,328
and Ryan. At eight years old,
he started winning and my kids
were at all my tournaments.

980
00:54:48,372 --> 00:54:52,289
He would stay in the tournament
room from the time it opened
till two o'clock in the morning.

981
00:54:52,332 --> 00:54:55,466
This is when he's five, six,
seven, and eight
playing foosball.

982
00:54:55,509 --> 00:54:59,600
My life and what has been my
creator in my life is foosball.

983
00:55:00,209 --> 00:55:04,605
When I turned 11, I
played 17 and under doubles
at the World Championships.

984
00:55:04,649 --> 00:55:08,479
His partner, Tony Spredeman, he
played him at local tournaments
and this kid was phenomenal.

985
00:55:10,568 --> 00:55:12,526
[Margaret] It was just
ridiculous how he just played.

986
00:55:12,570 --> 00:55:15,486
I mean, how do you play tennis
by yourself? You can't.

987
00:55:15,529 --> 00:55:19,881
How do you play foos,
but he did. Non-stop.

988
00:55:19,925 --> 00:55:21,840
[Bud] Oh, he was pretty young
back then. I'm not sure.

989
00:55:21,883 --> 00:55:23,668
And we'd be kind of sad at
the end of the weekend

990
00:55:23,711 --> 00:55:25,147
'cause we had fun
and now it was time

991
00:55:25,191 --> 00:55:27,889
to go home back to regular life.

992
00:55:27,933 --> 00:55:33,199
And Tony said, "Dad,
I wish foosball was life."

993
00:55:33,242 --> 00:55:35,723
And he's pretty much turned
it into his life. Pretty much.

994
00:55:38,683 --> 00:55:40,685
Life of a foosball
player on the road.

995
00:55:43,078 --> 00:55:45,254
We're in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma State,

996
00:55:46,995 --> 00:55:49,041
pulled into the parking lot,
truck broke down

997
00:55:49,084 --> 00:55:53,088
so we had to win open
doubles and Open Singles

998
00:55:53,132 --> 00:55:56,831
to pay for our car repair.
Mission accomplished.

999
00:55:56,875 --> 00:55:58,746
Popped open the first beer
of the weekend

1000
00:55:58,790 --> 00:56:01,445
so we're gonna break even for
the weekend but it's all good.

1001
00:56:02,054 --> 00:56:03,838
[Jim] The two biggest names that
you're gonna find

1002
00:56:03,882 --> 00:56:05,710
on the American tour are
Tony Spredeman

1003
00:56:05,753 --> 00:56:07,929
and Ryan Moore out of
Colorado Springs, Colorado.

1004
00:56:07,973 --> 00:56:10,454
These guys have taken
the game to a whole new level

1005
00:56:10,497 --> 00:56:12,020
and it's also a great rivalry.

1006
00:56:12,064 --> 00:56:14,327
They competed last year
in Kentucky

1007
00:56:14,371 --> 00:56:16,373
with Tony Spredeman coming
out on top.

1008
00:56:17,417 --> 00:56:19,898
[Ryan] This last year I
took second in singles.

1009
00:56:19,941 --> 00:56:21,682
Second is just not--
you're the last loser.

1010
00:56:21,726 --> 00:56:23,597
Second sucks.

1011
00:56:23,641 --> 00:56:25,643
This year, to
get mentally prepared,

1012
00:56:25,686 --> 00:56:31,300
I'm not smoking any cannabis
or consuming any cannabis.

1013
00:56:31,953 --> 00:56:34,826
Um, this is just to
kind of have mental clarity.

1014
00:56:34,869 --> 00:56:38,830
You can be foggy if you
do smoke too much cannabis.

1015
00:56:38,873 --> 00:56:41,528
Just trying, trying to get
my head game straight.

1016
00:56:41,572 --> 00:56:43,617
Get ready for Worlds
so I can win this thing.

1017
00:56:49,144 --> 00:56:49,884
[ball rolling]

1018
00:56:53,366 --> 00:56:56,500
[Cindy] So back in the day,
there's something I would do

1019
00:56:56,543 --> 00:56:59,590
before every tournament
that would get me fired up

1020
00:56:59,633 --> 00:57:02,375
and I would
watch the movie Rocky

1021
00:57:02,419 --> 00:57:05,030
and there's
something about that movie

1022
00:57:05,073 --> 00:57:08,120
that would like
flip a switch in me.

1023
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:14,387
And I guess it probably
had to do with my background
of coming from nothing

1024
00:57:14,431 --> 00:57:18,826
and not having a lot,
but that movie made me feel like

1025
00:57:18,870 --> 00:57:22,003
no matter who you are,
no matter where you came from,

1026
00:57:22,047 --> 00:57:25,354
I could go out and conquer
the world on a foosball table.

1027
00:57:26,268 --> 00:57:29,184
[Todd] I've been trying harder
in singles and I've
been doing better

1028
00:57:29,228 --> 00:57:31,839
and that motivates
me more than anything.

1029
00:57:31,883 --> 00:57:34,015
I'm much prouder
of myself when I have

1030
00:57:34,059 --> 00:57:38,019
to do something where I got to
get in there and grind it out.

1031
00:57:38,063 --> 00:57:41,501
I never want a guy
walking up to the table
knowing that he can beat me.

1032
00:57:42,415 --> 00:57:46,941
Tony's come close to that, you
know, but even still, I still
get Tony every now and then.

1033
00:57:47,551 --> 00:57:51,685
Practicing at my level
is practicing your mental game

1034
00:57:51,729 --> 00:57:55,515
as much as possible
and I position Tony

1035
00:57:55,559 --> 00:57:57,952
right across the table
from me as I'm playing

1036
00:57:57,996 --> 00:57:59,911
and then I'm
playing against his defense

1037
00:57:59,954 --> 00:58:01,869
so when that time comes around,

1038
00:58:01,913 --> 00:58:03,784
I've already
been there, I've already

1039
00:58:04,393 --> 00:58:06,570
been a World Championship
finals in my basement.

1040
00:58:06,613 --> 00:58:08,789
It's actually, it's a mind game.

1041
00:58:08,833 --> 00:58:11,836
I deal with life
or death every day.

1042
00:58:11,879 --> 00:58:17,058
It helps kind of allay the
anxiety that you could get in
big pressure situations.

1043
00:58:17,102 --> 00:58:20,061
I really want to make a run
this year. Tony's kind of
the guy, though,

1044
00:58:20,105 --> 00:58:22,890
that has been getting
the best of me in singles.

1045
00:58:22,934 --> 00:58:24,849
Why not me? Anything can happen.

1046
00:58:26,415 --> 00:58:28,417
[Tony] You know,
growing up, I was looking

1047
00:58:28,461 --> 00:58:31,072
at the top players,
I was looking at Robert Mares,

1048
00:58:31,116 --> 00:58:33,814
looking at Todd Loffredo,
Tommy Adkisson.

1049
00:58:33,858 --> 00:58:36,556
I aspired to be there someday

1050
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:39,428
and now that I am,
it's stressful.

1051
00:58:39,472 --> 00:58:41,996
Everywhere that I go,
I have a big target on my back.

1052
00:58:46,958 --> 00:58:49,438
[Ryan] Rob Mares, six times
he's been in the finals

1053
00:58:49,482 --> 00:58:51,658
and it's a shame
he hasn't already got one

1054
00:58:51,702 --> 00:58:53,530
'cause he definitely
deserves it.

1055
00:58:54,139 --> 00:58:57,098
[Tommy] It's not four years in
a row like the Buffalo Bills

1056
00:58:57,142 --> 00:58:59,013
but I'd like
to see him finally win.

1057
00:58:59,057 --> 00:59:01,102
[Robert] Me not winning
singles at Worlds

1058
00:59:01,146 --> 00:59:02,930
bothers other people
more than me.

1059
00:59:02,974 --> 00:59:04,715
That doesn't
mean I don't want to win

1060
00:59:04,758 --> 00:59:06,543
and I'm not gonna
be trying as hard as I can

1061
00:59:06,586 --> 00:59:08,414
when I get there,
that I'm not gonna

1062
00:59:08,457 --> 00:59:11,765
do everything I think
I can to prepare properly.

1063
00:59:11,809 --> 00:59:14,812
It's not gonna
be like finally I can,

1064
00:59:14,855 --> 00:59:16,770
you know, now I can
sleep through the night

1065
00:59:16,814 --> 00:59:19,468
or you know,
the monkey's off my back.

1066
00:59:19,512 --> 00:59:21,775
I would love
to win it, that's fine.

1067
00:59:21,819 --> 00:59:24,517
Doesn't keep me up
at night, bro, at all.

1068
00:59:25,997 --> 00:59:27,389
[clanking]

1069
00:59:28,956 --> 00:59:30,218
That loaded, boom.

1070
00:59:39,271 --> 00:59:41,055
[GPS] You've arrived
at your destination.

1071
00:59:41,099 --> 00:59:42,840
[Robert] Oh, you couldn't have
said that better, lady.

1072
00:59:43,884 --> 00:59:46,321
We have reached our destination.

1073
00:59:46,365 --> 00:59:50,674
Now we may fulfill our destiny.
[laughing]

1074
00:59:51,326 --> 00:59:53,633
[Jim] Hi everybody, Jim Stevens
is coming to you from
Lexington, Kentucky,

1075
00:59:53,677 --> 00:59:56,767
famous for horse racing,
urban and college basketball.

1076
00:59:56,810 --> 00:59:58,769
This week it's
all about table soccer

1077
00:59:58,812 --> 01:00:00,509
as International Foosball
Promotions

1078
01:00:00,553 --> 01:00:03,382
presents the World Championships of Foosball.

1079
01:00:03,425 --> 01:00:05,384
The sport's
biggest names, the rock stars

1080
01:00:05,427 --> 01:00:08,213
of the sport,
have begun to arrive today

1081
01:00:08,256 --> 01:00:11,390
in preparation for the big
event tomorrow, Open Singles.

1082
01:00:11,433 --> 01:00:14,915
The open events are truly open. You can walk in off the street

1083
01:00:14,959 --> 01:00:17,875
and you can compete against
the best foosball players
in the world.

1084
01:00:19,528 --> 01:00:21,182
We love foosball.

1085
01:00:21,226 --> 01:00:22,314
First ever tournament.

1086
01:00:22,357 --> 01:00:23,663
We play together in Los Angeles.

1087
01:00:23,707 --> 01:00:24,882
Came from Dubai.

1088
01:00:24,925 --> 01:00:26,710
It's a 14 hour flight.

1089
01:00:26,753 --> 01:00:28,581
I think I'm like the
only fourth black dude

1090
01:00:28,625 --> 01:00:30,583
that plays foosball,
so it's pretty cool.

1091
01:00:30,627 --> 01:00:31,889
-Yeah.
-[laughing]

1092
01:00:31,932 --> 01:00:33,891
I used to go and watch a friend

1093
01:00:33,934 --> 01:00:36,676
of mine play foosball
and a year ago, he passed away.

1094
01:00:37,895 --> 01:00:38,939
Here he is.

1095
01:00:40,288 --> 01:00:42,682
My best friend. You know,
we completed our goal.

1096
01:00:42,726 --> 01:00:45,467
We're here at the Worlds
together for the first time.

1097
01:00:53,258 --> 01:00:56,043
My name is Jim Stevens.
I'm the world's only fooscaster.

1098
01:00:57,741 --> 01:00:59,394
I go to 17 tournaments a year.

1099
01:00:59,438 --> 01:01:01,048
I set up nine cameras.

1100
01:01:01,092 --> 01:01:03,181
I mix the cameras
not only for downloads

1101
01:01:03,224 --> 01:01:04,225
but also to livestream.

1102
01:01:04,269 --> 01:01:06,097
I also do commentary.

1103
01:01:06,140 --> 01:01:09,230
It's kind of like singing
and playing the piano I suppose.

1104
01:01:09,274 --> 01:01:12,669
As far as having influences,
I grew up in Los Angeles.
Got to listen to

1105
01:01:12,712 --> 01:01:17,543
Vince Scully do Dodger games, to
listen to the great Chick Hearn
doing Laker basketball games,

1106
01:01:17,586 --> 01:01:22,853
and certainly both of those guys
have contributed not only to
my fast paced commentary style

1107
01:01:22,896 --> 01:01:25,986
which comes from Chick Hearn
but also from
the story telling aspect

1108
01:01:26,030 --> 01:01:28,293
which Vince Scully
has highly influenced.

1109
01:01:28,336 --> 01:01:31,252
Hi everybody, I'm Vince Scully. We're gonna be back in a moment,

1110
01:01:31,296 --> 01:01:35,300
-ladies and gentlemen.
-For more World Championship action after this.

1111
01:01:39,260 --> 01:01:41,828
[Terry] Good morning,
today's the day that open
singles starts.

1112
01:01:41,872 --> 01:01:44,396
I'm doing my morning ritual
before a tournament.

1113
01:01:50,315 --> 01:01:51,185
Game time, baby.

1114
01:01:52,709 --> 01:01:55,189
[upbeat music]

1115
01:02:00,934 --> 01:02:03,502
-Is what?
-[Ryan] No.

1116
01:02:04,068 --> 01:02:08,028
[Ryan] No. [laughing]

1117
01:02:09,029 --> 01:02:10,814
[Jim] It's time for the main
event here in Lexington

1118
01:02:10,857 --> 01:02:13,773
as the Open Singles competition gets under way.

1119
01:02:13,817 --> 01:02:15,166
In tournament play,
there are a lot of rules

1120
01:02:15,209 --> 01:02:16,776
but here are some of the basics.

1121
01:02:16,820 --> 01:02:18,343
First to
five goals wins the game,

1122
01:02:18,386 --> 01:02:20,388
best three out of
five games wins the match.

1123
01:02:20,432 --> 01:02:22,739
And of course,
you can't spin the rods.

1124
01:02:24,958 --> 01:02:26,394
The brackets have
been drawn with hundreds

1125
01:02:26,438 --> 01:02:28,309
of foosballers
from more than 40 states

1126
01:02:28,353 --> 01:02:30,529
and 15 different
countries all battling

1127
01:02:30,572 --> 01:02:33,967
to be crowned the number one
player in the world.

1128
01:02:34,011 --> 01:02:38,232
It's like going into a casino
for the first time. You hear
dink, dink, bl-bl...

1129
01:02:38,276 --> 01:02:40,321
Dink, dink, dink, dink.
Just yeah!

1130
01:02:40,365 --> 01:02:41,975
Pop, pop, pop.

1131
01:02:42,846 --> 01:02:44,761
It's just a sensory overload.

1132
01:02:46,980 --> 01:02:48,329
[Jim] The singles competition
in the sport of table soccer
is a lot

1133
01:02:48,373 --> 01:02:49,896
like boxing and
a little bit like chess

1134
01:02:49,940 --> 01:02:52,725
as the players battle within two or three feet of each other

1135
01:02:52,769 --> 01:02:55,902
while strategically trying to outthink the opponent.

1136
01:02:55,946 --> 01:02:59,558
[Robert] When you leave game
room-style basement foosball and
you discover

1137
01:02:59,601 --> 01:03:02,169
tournament foosball,
one of the first things
you realize

1138
01:03:02,213 --> 01:03:03,997
is how disciplined
the tournament players are

1139
01:03:04,041 --> 01:03:05,825
and by disciplined,
I mean that they're

1140
01:03:05,869 --> 01:03:07,305
gonna do the high
percentage shot every time.

1141
01:03:07,348 --> 01:03:08,175
[Jim] Nice high lane.

1142
01:03:09,916 --> 01:03:11,396
Another nice pass
along the wall.

1143
01:03:11,439 --> 01:03:13,137
Sets up the pull shot.

1144
01:03:13,180 --> 01:03:15,052
Strokes it home down the middle.

1145
01:03:16,401 --> 01:03:18,751
What you're gonna see today
is an array of styles

1146
01:03:18,795 --> 01:03:21,580
from the walking snake of
Tony Spredeman and Ryan Moore

1147
01:03:21,623 --> 01:03:24,496
to the 1970s pull shot style
of Todd Loffredo.

1148
01:03:25,149 --> 01:03:26,411
[announcer] Ball in position.

1149
01:03:30,458 --> 01:03:32,330
Middle.

1150
01:03:32,373 --> 01:03:34,636
[Jim] There are several stories
we're following this year.

1151
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:37,814
Six time runner up Robert Mares, can he get to the finals
a seventh time?

1152
01:03:37,857 --> 01:03:40,381
Can he take home that
elusive Open Singles title?

1153
01:03:41,252 --> 01:03:44,081
You know, you look over here
and you can see the singles.

1154
01:03:44,124 --> 01:03:45,909
So these are the guys
I'm watching here.

1155
01:03:49,434 --> 01:03:51,523
[Jim] Terry Rue
from Crowley, Louisiana.

1156
01:03:51,566 --> 01:03:54,831
Can he keep his emotions
in check as he advances
to the semifinals

1157
01:03:54,874 --> 01:03:57,442
where he'll face his former
doubles partner, Robert Mares?

1158
01:03:59,705 --> 01:04:01,750
And on the other side of
the bracket is Tony Spredeman.

1159
01:04:01,794 --> 01:04:03,752
Tony is looking to
cap his undefeated season

1160
01:04:03,796 --> 01:04:06,059
by winning his fifth
Open Singles world title,

1161
01:04:06,103 --> 01:04:07,495
putting him
in second place all time

1162
01:04:07,539 --> 01:04:09,497
behind the great
Frederic Collignon.

1163
01:04:10,368 --> 01:04:12,631
But if anyone's going
to stop him, it's Ryan Moore.

1164
01:04:12,674 --> 01:04:14,502
With one of the deadliest
two bars in the game,

1165
01:04:14,546 --> 01:04:16,461
Ryan is out for blood
after losing to Tony

1166
01:04:16,504 --> 01:04:17,592
in last year's finals.

1167
01:04:19,203 --> 01:04:20,987
[clanking]

1168
01:04:23,250 --> 01:04:25,557
[Jim] And in the women's
division, the legendary Cindy
Head has again

1169
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:27,124
advanced to the singles final.

1170
01:04:27,733 --> 01:04:30,475
There it is, hit it! Come on.

1171
01:04:31,650 --> 01:04:34,522
You know, I'm nowhere
near the player I used to be

1172
01:04:34,566 --> 01:04:37,438
but a lot of my game is heart.

1173
01:04:37,482 --> 01:04:41,138
I fight hard and I find a way
to get that ball in the hole.

1174
01:04:42,139 --> 01:04:44,793
You know, lately whenever
I play, I play for my brother.

1175
01:04:44,837 --> 01:04:47,971
He had become a detective
and we were very close

1176
01:04:48,014 --> 01:04:51,322
and I lost him
April 1st, the same day

1177
01:04:51,365 --> 01:04:53,628
I lost my other
brother 28 years earlier.

1178
01:04:55,326 --> 01:04:57,937
You know, even though
I was broken when I lost him,

1179
01:04:59,373 --> 01:05:01,985
I know that he always wants me

1180
01:05:02,028 --> 01:05:05,597
to be the best that
I can be and do the things

1181
01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:09,862
that I love to do
and since he's not here
and he can't do those things

1182
01:05:09,906 --> 01:05:12,996
then I'm always gonna
try to do the best for him.

1183
01:05:13,039 --> 01:05:15,476
You know, right now
I have a pretty bad injury

1184
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:17,739
that I've got
to have surgery to fix.

1185
01:05:18,218 --> 01:05:19,828
This thumb was ripped off.

1186
01:05:19,872 --> 01:05:22,266
I've got to have
a joint replacement here

1187
01:05:22,309 --> 01:05:25,747
and this bone
was broken in 14 places.

1188
01:05:25,791 --> 01:05:28,446
The pain level from a
1 to 10 is about a 12.

1189
01:05:29,534 --> 01:05:32,624
So all I can do is
go in and play with heart

1190
01:05:32,667 --> 01:05:35,105
and just try
to do the best I can.

1191
01:05:35,148 --> 01:05:37,150
So we'll see, I'm just hopeful

1192
01:05:38,325 --> 01:05:39,936
but don't count me out yet.

1193
01:05:46,551 --> 01:05:49,510
[Jim] And hi once again,
everybody. Jim Stevens back
with you here in the pit area

1194
01:05:49,554 --> 01:05:51,556
as we bring you the
women's singles final.

1195
01:05:53,384 --> 01:05:57,518
That is 40 time world champion
Cindy Head on the right.

1196
01:05:57,562 --> 01:06:00,782
This is a lady who has
won every title there is

1197
01:06:00,826 --> 01:06:03,568
in a career that
spans about four decades.

1198
01:06:04,873 --> 01:06:06,397
Linda Ly on the left side.

1199
01:06:11,576 --> 01:06:14,361
Come on, that's it!
That's the shot! Hit it!

1200
01:06:14,405 --> 01:06:15,928
[Jim] Cindy has
come out and she needed to

1201
01:06:15,972 --> 01:06:17,712
with a great deal of energy.

1202
01:06:18,626 --> 01:06:20,585
-[Cindy shouts]
-Let's Linda and
the world know about it.

1203
01:06:23,718 --> 01:06:27,896
Linda has scored six of
the last seven in this match.

1204
01:06:27,940 --> 01:06:31,335
-Not easy to
play against Cindy Head.
-Yeah, come on!

1205
01:06:31,378 --> 01:06:34,729
[Jim] She makes a very strong
case for being the best player

1206
01:06:34,773 --> 01:06:36,818
that the entire world has
ever seen.

1207
01:06:37,297 --> 01:06:40,213
Linda just needs
to keep doing her thing,

1208
01:06:40,257 --> 01:06:43,086
just keep playing her game
and she does so here.
She takes the lead.

1209
01:06:43,129 --> 01:06:46,480
Cindy Head as good as anybody
of either sex has ever been

1210
01:06:46,524 --> 01:06:49,527
and coming back, that's
not gonna phase her at all.

1211
01:06:49,570 --> 01:06:52,965
-I think it's
gonna motivate her.
-Come on! One more!

1212
01:06:53,009 --> 01:06:56,708
[Jim] Has that one blocked
and taken away by Ly.
Linda fires it home.

1213
01:06:56,751 --> 01:07:02,583
It's championship point
for Linda Ly of Calgary,
Alberta, Canada.

1214
01:07:02,627 --> 01:07:03,628
[clanking]

1215
01:07:05,195 --> 01:07:07,327
[Jim] And she does.

1216
01:07:07,371 --> 01:07:11,201
Linda Ly
has defeated Cindy Head,

1217
01:07:11,244 --> 01:07:14,465
the World Women's
Singles Championship.

1218
01:07:14,508 --> 01:07:16,771
[Cindy] I'm very hard on myself
when it comes to playing

1219
01:07:16,815 --> 01:07:19,905
'cause I expect me to go in
there and play and win.

1220
01:07:19,948 --> 01:07:21,863
For once I was proud of me

1221
01:07:21,907 --> 01:07:24,475
because I was even able to
make it to the finals.

1222
01:07:25,563 --> 01:07:27,739
[clapping]

1223
01:07:32,135 --> 01:07:35,138
This is the number four
and number five seed

1224
01:07:35,181 --> 01:07:37,096
to get to what, fifth?

1225
01:07:37,140 --> 01:07:38,837
[man]
Both super talented players.

1226
01:07:40,491 --> 01:07:42,145
Actually, they won the
World Championships together

1227
01:07:42,188 --> 01:07:43,624
last year in doubles.

1228
01:07:44,234 --> 01:07:46,236
They're not
playing together this year.

1229
01:07:46,279 --> 01:07:48,107
They're too nice of
guys to call it a grudge match

1230
01:07:48,151 --> 01:07:50,240
but I think Terry might
have a little bit to prove here.

1231
01:07:50,283 --> 01:07:51,980
[Sullivan] So daddy, why is it

1232
01:07:52,024 --> 01:07:53,373
when you won
your World Championships

1233
01:07:53,417 --> 01:07:56,463
did you cry like a little girl?

1234
01:07:56,507 --> 01:07:57,986
I felt like a little girl.

1235
01:07:58,030 --> 01:07:59,684
The emotions overcame me.

1236
01:08:00,685 --> 01:08:02,600
[Jim] There it is.

1237
01:08:03,470 --> 01:08:08,780
What a performance by
Robert Mares and Terry Rue.

1238
01:08:12,044 --> 01:08:14,960
[Jim] Last year, these two
guys were doubles partners.

1239
01:08:15,003 --> 01:08:18,311
It was one of the really,
most inspiring, I think,

1240
01:08:18,355 --> 01:08:20,531
and oddly,
they're not playing together.

1241
01:08:20,574 --> 01:08:23,360
Mares with his former
partner, Tony Spredeman.

1242
01:08:23,403 --> 01:08:25,449
Course you can't turn
Tony down if he asks you.

1243
01:08:25,492 --> 01:08:27,494
Robert Mares has four
career World Championships.

1244
01:08:27,538 --> 01:08:30,671
Terry Rue, last year
was his first and still only.

1245
01:08:30,715 --> 01:08:32,934
Hoping to get
another one here this weekend

1246
01:08:32,978 --> 01:08:36,286
and there are no better
prepared players really
than these two.

1247
01:08:39,593 --> 01:08:41,943
And there is Terry
stroking it home from goal.

1248
01:08:47,862 --> 01:08:50,474
And finds
the hole from far side.

1249
01:08:50,517 --> 01:08:53,912
But Robby does things
a little differently
than every other player.

1250
01:08:53,955 --> 01:08:57,568
There's not necessarily one
thing that he's great at but
he's just great at everything,

1251
01:08:57,611 --> 01:08:59,526
but Terry Rue a guy
that will get on the table

1252
01:08:59,570 --> 01:09:02,094
and do repetition after
repetition after repetition.

1253
01:09:02,138 --> 01:09:04,923
Terry Rue on a run right now.

1254
01:09:04,966 --> 01:09:11,103
Nice response from Robert Mares. It's all come down to this as we now move to game number five.

1255
01:09:14,324 --> 01:09:17,196
Oh, look at the long,
deep outside bank.

1256
01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:18,719
Beautiful play by Mares.

1257
01:09:19,329 --> 01:09:20,504
He strokes that one home.

1258
01:09:20,547 --> 01:09:23,681
It's match point for Terry Rue.

1259
01:09:23,724 --> 01:09:27,337
Terry Rue comes
out with some finesse.

1260
01:09:27,380 --> 01:09:30,078
On the five and there's
the left hook to win it.

1261
01:09:31,079 --> 01:09:31,906
[clapping]

1262
01:09:42,003 --> 01:09:44,832
[Robert] You know, just not
one of my greatest turnouts

1263
01:09:44,876 --> 01:09:46,878
and I don't know
what I'd do different.

1264
01:09:47,792 --> 01:09:48,923
That's a tough one.

1265
01:09:50,751 --> 01:09:53,363
Yeah. I don't know that I'd
do a whole lot different,

1266
01:09:53,406 --> 01:09:58,194
be honest with you, except for
put it in the hole and I didn't.
[laughing]

1267
01:09:59,238 --> 01:10:03,416
You know, looking back on
the weekend as far as singles
goes, kind of a tough one

1268
01:10:03,460 --> 01:10:05,723
to swallow at
the time but you know,

1269
01:10:05,766 --> 01:10:07,942
you just got to take
the good with the bad.

1270
01:10:10,554 --> 01:10:12,817
I'm fine with it. [laughing]

1271
01:10:15,254 --> 01:10:19,171
He's a-- He's a big mountain
to climb, that's for sure,
as you all could see.

1272
01:10:19,215 --> 01:10:21,869
The guy's amazing, he's
one of the best ever, period.

1273
01:10:22,827 --> 01:10:26,309
Uh, very, very, very
good friend of mine.

1274
01:10:26,961 --> 01:10:31,227
Uh, got to make a dream come
true last year with him,
so it is emotional.

1275
01:10:35,796 --> 01:10:37,581
And it's not over.

1276
01:10:38,451 --> 01:10:40,497
That's the beauty of it,
there's more to come.

1277
01:10:46,198 --> 01:10:50,202
[Tony] My game plan's always
to outscore, pure offense,

1278
01:10:50,246 --> 01:10:54,641
power, aggression, attack,
attack, attack.
Go for the throat.

1279
01:10:54,685 --> 01:10:56,164
You know,
I want to go for the kill.

1280
01:10:56,208 --> 01:10:57,253
Controlled aggression.

1281
01:10:58,558 --> 01:11:00,691
I see something,
I'm gonna exploit it.

1282
01:11:02,345 --> 01:11:03,781
[Jim] That's Trevor Park,
the talented player

1283
01:11:03,824 --> 01:11:05,783
out of California on the left.

1284
01:11:05,826 --> 01:11:08,481
Tony has lost
two games to Trevor Park

1285
01:11:08,525 --> 01:11:10,657
who has aggressively defended
Tony throughout the match.

1286
01:11:10,701 --> 01:11:13,138
So Tony Spredeman,
a little bit on the ropes.

1287
01:11:13,181 --> 01:11:17,316
After Tony loses a game,
he comes out with
an elevated effort.

1288
01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:21,015
And Tony Spredeman can close it out right here and he does.

1289
01:11:21,059 --> 01:11:23,322
Tony Spredeman survives
a tough five game match

1290
01:11:23,366 --> 01:11:25,846
but does show
some chink in his armor.

1291
01:11:25,890 --> 01:11:27,239
If you can
block the unblockable,

1292
01:11:27,283 --> 01:11:29,023
you can beat the unbeatable.

1293
01:11:35,900 --> 01:11:39,077
[Mary] Tony and Ryan go back
and forth, back and forth.

1294
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:43,299
It's usually gonna be one
or both in the finals if
they're at a tournament.

1295
01:11:43,342 --> 01:11:46,345
Every now and then
you'll get that weird upset
where one of them's not in there

1296
01:11:46,389 --> 01:11:51,176
but it's always big to beat
Tony. Tony's the one to beat
and Todd's the one

1297
01:11:51,219 --> 01:11:55,659
to beat for Ryan, and everybody
else he does pretty well
against, but those two,

1298
01:11:55,702 --> 01:11:57,400
they're the two that
they give him a little bit

1299
01:11:57,443 --> 01:12:00,228
of problem and he really
has to have his A game on.

1300
01:12:00,664 --> 01:12:03,667
Like I said, I'm putting it
all out there so I don't care
if I break my finger,

1301
01:12:03,710 --> 01:12:06,322
break my wrist,
doesn't matter, this is Worlds.

1302
01:12:06,365 --> 01:12:08,149
Put it all out there
and go home.

1303
01:12:10,282 --> 01:12:14,112
The legacy, it's a whole another
ballgame, you know This is
the platform for that.

1304
01:12:15,548 --> 01:12:18,812
I've noticed a lot of the
players defensively, they
don't know where their men are.

1305
01:12:18,856 --> 01:12:20,553
This guy's going
to be coming in, trying

1306
01:12:20,597 --> 01:12:23,121
to guard this hole here
so if I catch him

1307
01:12:23,164 --> 01:12:25,906
at the right time
and I can hit that hole

1308
01:12:25,950 --> 01:12:30,563
back there behind him... There,
that was probably perfect.

1309
01:12:30,607 --> 01:12:32,260
I'll make that even tighter.

1310
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:34,350
Let's see if it's still there.

1311
01:12:35,655 --> 01:12:36,569
Still there.

1312
01:12:37,701 --> 01:12:40,356
[dramatic music]

1313
01:12:44,838 --> 01:12:47,841
[man] This is the definition
of old school versus new school.

1314
01:12:48,581 --> 01:12:50,191
And Ryan
definitely looks like he's

1315
01:12:50,235 --> 01:12:53,064
gonna do
more than the basics here.

1316
01:12:53,107 --> 01:12:55,675
He's gonna
razzle dazzle a little bit.

1317
01:12:55,719 --> 01:12:57,329
He's gonna
throw some wrinkles in.

1318
01:12:57,373 --> 01:13:00,376
[Jim] He hits another one.

1319
01:13:01,507 --> 01:13:06,643
Walks it. Tap it. And stroking
it home near side.

1320
01:13:06,686 --> 01:13:11,038
[man] The kind of pacing style
of Ryan is setting near his own
so kind of bully his opponent

1321
01:13:11,082 --> 01:13:14,390
and you can't do
that with Todd Loffredo.
You cannot intimidate him.

1322
01:13:14,433 --> 01:13:16,087
[Jim] He's unbully-able.

1323
01:13:16,957 --> 01:13:20,787
Strokes it home and Loffredo comes out with a strong effort.

1324
01:13:20,831 --> 01:13:23,050
Completely in defensive
position is Loffredo

1325
01:13:23,094 --> 01:13:25,749
as Ryan strokes it home.

1326
01:13:31,232 --> 01:13:33,191
A huge block by Loffredo.

1327
01:13:34,018 --> 01:13:37,064
Todd Loffredo's been is this
situation before, many times.

1328
01:13:37,804 --> 01:13:40,633
He's not gonna fold
but keep coming at Ryan.

1329
01:13:40,677 --> 01:13:44,463
And angled in by Loffredo,
it's two games apiece.

1330
01:13:46,813 --> 01:13:51,383
The legend,
Todd Loffredo, 56 years old.

1331
01:13:57,171 --> 01:14:00,653
Todd Loffredo who has
not won a World Championship

1332
01:14:00,697 --> 01:14:05,615
since 1986 in singles is
a goal away from advancing.

1333
01:14:06,311 --> 01:14:10,271
It is match point for Loffredo.

1334
01:14:13,100 --> 01:14:16,103
Shot a tip off the man
and in and there it is.

1335
01:14:16,147 --> 01:14:20,934
Todd Loffredo outlasts
Ryan Moore.

1336
01:14:27,071 --> 01:14:29,160
[Ryan] Uh, so he took me out.

1337
01:14:29,203 --> 01:14:31,162
Took out a couple
other people as well.

1338
01:14:31,205 --> 01:14:33,817
He played good, he did
great, he deserved to win.

1339
01:14:33,860 --> 01:14:35,732
He obviously wanted
to win more, so.

1340
01:14:36,472 --> 01:14:39,213
I'll take my loss as a loss.
Mm-hm. So.

1341
01:14:46,569 --> 01:14:49,049
When I lose, a lot of
times it's like my defense

1342
01:14:49,093 --> 01:14:52,096
to anger and to being
upset is I just laugh

1343
01:14:52,139 --> 01:14:53,706
and I know
that I am upset inside

1344
01:14:53,750 --> 01:14:56,666
but what are you gonna do?

1345
01:14:56,709 --> 01:14:58,102
I just don't think I was
mentally prepared.

1346
01:14:59,495 --> 01:15:02,019
[tense music]

1347
01:15:03,281 --> 01:15:04,804
[Ray] Alright, two AM check.

1348
01:15:04,848 --> 01:15:08,199
Couple matches going on still

1349
01:15:08,242 --> 01:15:11,768
but we're pretty good a bit of
the way through Open Singles.

1350
01:15:11,811 --> 01:15:16,860
Couple big surprises.
We have Todd beat Ryan.

1351
01:15:17,730 --> 01:15:21,342
Great match, went
to overtime, game five, uhm,

1352
01:15:21,386 --> 01:15:24,258
kind of surprised Mares is
out a little bit early.

1353
01:15:24,302 --> 01:15:27,261
Uhm, you know, he usually goes
pretty deep

1354
01:15:27,305 --> 01:15:30,177
but, I mean, that's
the thing about Worlds.

1355
01:15:30,221 --> 01:15:32,005
Ready to pick
back up on Saturday

1356
01:15:32,049 --> 01:15:34,921
and see who the number one
player in the world is.

1357
01:15:40,187 --> 01:15:42,668
[gentle music]

1358
01:15:48,195 --> 01:15:50,241
-[Todd] You looked
like you were sleeping.
-I was.

1359
01:15:50,937 --> 01:15:53,897
Got a long fucking drive.
[mumbling]

1360
01:16:00,730 --> 01:16:04,037
-[shouting]
-[clapping]

1361
01:16:04,081 --> 01:16:07,954
[Keisha] He just loves the sport
and it's not against anyone

1362
01:16:07,998 --> 01:16:09,869
or wanting to
kill anyone on the table,

1363
01:16:09,913 --> 01:16:11,567
it's about doing his best.

1364
01:16:12,176 --> 01:16:15,875
Just hoping, hoping this year
he might, might pull it off.

1365
01:16:17,137 --> 01:16:21,751
[man] I mean, in my opinion,
Terry's kind of like the general
of our Lafayette crew, you know.

1366
01:16:21,794 --> 01:16:23,796
Everybody pretty
much follows his lead.

1367
01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:25,450
He's the best player to
ever come out of Lafayette

1368
01:16:25,493 --> 01:16:27,495
and in my opinion,
the best player

1369
01:16:27,539 --> 01:16:28,888
ever come out of Louisiana.

1370
01:16:28,932 --> 01:16:31,499
[dramatic music]

1371
01:16:37,418 --> 01:16:39,943
[Todd] People want to know
why my shot's so fast.

1372
01:16:39,986 --> 01:16:42,598
I'm looking for the shortest,
quickest route to the hole.

1373
01:16:43,294 --> 01:16:44,034
[clanking]

1374
01:16:46,166 --> 01:16:48,995
And it's almost like the ball
starts working forward here

1375
01:16:49,039 --> 01:16:52,129
and then it starts to
come back and then shoot.

1376
01:16:52,172 --> 01:16:57,177
Normally shots look just like
a normal seven just like that

1377
01:16:57,221 --> 01:16:59,527
and you waste a lot
of time in this area.

1378
01:16:59,571 --> 01:17:02,400
[Jim] Todd always seemingly so calm on the table.

1379
01:17:02,443 --> 01:17:05,359
You never can tell whether he's winning or losing.

1380
01:17:05,403 --> 01:17:09,146
Terry Rue on the other hand
sometimes seems like he's
about to come out of his skin.

1381
01:17:09,189 --> 01:17:12,845
Tony Spredeman, the snake
shooter, sitting in
the on deck circle

1382
01:17:12,889 --> 01:17:15,456
waiting for
the winner of this one.

1383
01:17:15,500 --> 01:17:19,765
Todd, he of the world
famous pull shot.

1384
01:17:19,809 --> 01:17:21,941
Both players trying
to remember to breathe,

1385
01:17:21,985 --> 01:17:22,855
especially that guy.

1386
01:17:31,516 --> 01:17:34,954
Boy, Terry Rue can
hardly contain himself.

1387
01:17:46,052 --> 01:17:48,359
Loffredo right now
controlling the tempo.

1388
01:17:48,402 --> 01:17:52,406
Todd fires home a good long
square pull shot.

1389
01:17:53,581 --> 01:17:56,062
Boy, Todd not missing much.

1390
01:17:56,889 --> 01:17:58,674
We are seeing quite
a pull shot exhibition

1391
01:17:58,717 --> 01:18:00,284
here on table number one.

1392
01:18:02,547 --> 01:18:04,984
Todd can
bring it across, set it up.

1393
01:18:05,028 --> 01:18:06,725
Again, look at the demeanor.

1394
01:18:06,769 --> 01:18:08,814
And stroke it
home down the middle.

1395
01:18:09,685 --> 01:18:12,296
Terry just wanting to
send this one to a fifth game.

1396
01:18:13,297 --> 01:18:16,474
And Todd gently
coming back the other way.

1397
01:18:25,396 --> 01:18:28,268
It's match point
for Todd Loffredo.

1398
01:18:28,312 --> 01:18:31,184
Looking to advance to
the World Singles final.

1399
01:18:37,669 --> 01:18:40,150
[gentle music]

1400
01:18:42,848 --> 01:18:44,981
He sets it up, strokes it home and there it is.

1401
01:18:45,024 --> 01:18:48,767
Todd Loffredo defeats Terry Rue

1402
01:18:48,811 --> 01:18:51,770
to advance to
the Open Singles final

1403
01:18:51,814 --> 01:18:54,077
in a showdown
with Tony Spredeman.

1404
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:55,382
Great performance by Rue.

1405
01:18:58,342 --> 01:19:00,083
[Terry] My third time
I got third in singles.

1406
01:19:01,998 --> 01:19:04,000
I guess being there's
better than not, right?

1407
01:19:07,264 --> 01:19:08,787
Pretty cool to
say you're the third best

1408
01:19:08,831 --> 01:19:10,833
in the world at something.
[chuckles]

1409
01:19:12,356 --> 01:19:15,446
It was Todd's day.
It was just Todd's day.

1410
01:19:16,490 --> 01:19:19,450
[Terry] Who would I like to see
win Open Singles if it
wasn't me?

1411
01:19:20,190 --> 01:19:23,846
Todd. Just 'cause of what
he means to the sport. Uhm...

1412
01:19:23,889 --> 01:19:27,806
It's been I think maybe
84, 85 since he's won one.

1413
01:19:27,850 --> 01:19:31,549
I think it'd be a neat addition
to everything going on.

1414
01:19:33,856 --> 01:19:36,075
There's too many people
wanting me to win.

1415
01:19:36,119 --> 01:19:37,250
I need them to boo me.

1416
01:19:38,730 --> 01:19:40,601
I do much better
when they don't like me.

1417
01:19:43,648 --> 01:19:47,391
There's no pressure.
When everybody wants you to win,
there's a lot of pressure.

1418
01:19:47,434 --> 01:19:49,219
[chuckles]

1419
01:19:49,262 --> 01:19:50,611
Sound silly, huh?

1420
01:19:53,136 --> 01:19:55,529
[Tony] Todd is, he's
a hall of famer.

1421
01:19:55,573 --> 01:19:58,750
He's like the most important
foosball player in history.

1422
01:19:58,794 --> 01:20:01,144
I was watching one of his
matches and I was just
a little kid

1423
01:20:01,187 --> 01:20:06,062
and he forgot one of
his grips on the table

1424
01:20:06,105 --> 01:20:08,238
and I did a little
look around and hopped down

1425
01:20:08,281 --> 01:20:10,196
and I swiped it and
I put it on my table at home.

1426
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:12,329
Like wow, I got Todd's grip, so.

1427
01:20:12,372 --> 01:20:14,679
And it kind of hit me.

1428
01:20:14,722 --> 01:20:16,855
The roles are
reversed now and I'm trying

1429
01:20:16,899 --> 01:20:18,378
to pay it forward.

1430
01:20:19,162 --> 01:20:21,164
I was in Taiwan
earlier this year

1431
01:20:21,207 --> 01:20:23,035
and I donated a couple
of foosball tables

1432
01:20:23,079 --> 01:20:26,212
to an orphanage
and they welcomed me

1433
01:20:26,256 --> 01:20:27,779
with a song.

1434
01:20:29,215 --> 01:20:33,785
You can see, they're
all playing songs for me

1435
01:20:33,829 --> 01:20:36,092
and I got choked up.

1436
01:20:38,921 --> 01:20:43,273
You know, like
a lot of people don't get

1437
01:20:43,316 --> 01:20:46,711
to do these kinds of things
and it's crazy to me

1438
01:20:46,754 --> 01:20:49,279
that foosball brought me
over here

1439
01:20:49,322 --> 01:20:52,630
and tried to make a difference
in these kids' lives.

1440
01:20:55,938 --> 01:20:58,114
[clapping]

1441
01:21:00,333 --> 01:21:02,988
[dramatic music]

1442
01:21:07,471 --> 01:21:10,126
[Jim] Eight months ago, this
season opened up right here
in Kentucky

1443
01:21:10,169 --> 01:21:11,954
and 15 tournaments later,
here we are

1444
01:21:11,997 --> 01:21:13,825
at the Tornado
World Championships.

1445
01:21:16,088 --> 01:21:19,135
[man] Looking at this match is
a bit of a role reversal
that we see in nature.

1446
01:21:19,178 --> 01:21:24,140
It's the old lion challenging
the young for dominance.

1447
01:21:24,183 --> 01:21:25,837
[Jim] The fact that
the old lion is still here

1448
01:21:25,881 --> 01:21:27,883
and able to play
is a remarkable thing.

1449
01:21:32,191 --> 01:21:33,714
[man] Come on, Todd!

1450
01:21:33,758 --> 01:21:35,412
[Jim] Todd Loffredo went
from being a young man

1451
01:21:35,455 --> 01:21:37,457
on the tournament
soccer tour as the sport

1452
01:21:37,501 --> 01:21:39,720
was developing to
now one of the top players

1453
01:21:39,764 --> 01:21:41,635
over 40 years later.

1454
01:21:41,679 --> 01:21:43,463
If he wins today,
he'll be the oldest player

1455
01:21:43,507 --> 01:21:45,596
in history to
ever win a world title.

1456
01:21:45,639 --> 01:21:48,947
[cheering]

1457
01:21:48,991 --> 01:21:53,125
He's got his work cut out for
him as he faces that man
over there, Tony Spredeman.

1458
01:21:54,605 --> 01:21:58,348
Tony, who has not lost a tournament all year, is chasing Frederic Collignon's record

1459
01:21:58,391 --> 01:22:00,872
for most Open Singles World Championships of all time.

1460
01:22:02,874 --> 01:22:05,137
I think Todd's
got to come out ahead.

1461
01:22:06,312 --> 01:22:10,012
[kid] We will cheer for Tony.
He's the best player in
the world.

1462
01:22:10,577 --> 01:22:13,102
And we also like to be like him.

1463
01:22:15,278 --> 01:22:19,108
[dramatic music]

1464
01:22:22,546 --> 01:22:27,507
[Mike]
You want to be the predator.
Kill, kill, kill every time.

1465
01:22:27,551 --> 01:22:31,424
The kill is when the ball goes
in the goal. I am a lion.

1466
01:22:31,468 --> 01:22:34,036
I don't walk, talk,
or sleep with the sheep.

1467
01:22:34,862 --> 01:22:36,473
Well, the lion's a predator.

1468
01:22:36,516 --> 01:22:38,388
Whatever your
opponent's strength is,

1469
01:22:38,431 --> 01:22:41,304
train yourself to take
the opponent's strength away.

1470
01:22:41,347 --> 01:22:43,784
[Jim] Here we go,
it's Loffredo on the left,

1471
01:22:43,828 --> 01:22:45,438
it's Spredeman on the right

1472
01:22:45,482 --> 01:22:47,310
as we open up
the Worlds singles final.

1473
01:22:49,965 --> 01:22:51,792
Tony Spredeman
putting the ball into play.

1474
01:22:53,707 --> 01:22:55,971
Tony will now step
into the forward position.

1475
01:22:58,060 --> 01:22:58,843
Sets it up.

1476
01:23:01,889 --> 01:23:02,673
Walk it.

1477
01:23:06,503 --> 01:23:07,504
Trying to
come near side, blocked,

1478
01:23:07,547 --> 01:23:08,984
and taken away by Loffredo.

1479
01:23:11,247 --> 01:23:13,423
That's what
Todd's gonna have to do.

1480
01:23:13,466 --> 01:23:15,077
Going to have to defend.

1481
01:23:16,948 --> 01:23:19,820
And the quick shot
taken away here by Tony.

1482
01:23:28,003 --> 01:23:31,180
Loffredo finding
himself working from behind.

1483
01:23:31,223 --> 01:23:32,268
Todd knocks
it off that back wall.

1484
01:23:32,311 --> 01:23:33,269
Tony a little slow.

1485
01:23:35,706 --> 01:23:37,751
Fires that one
home to the straight hole.

1486
01:23:37,795 --> 01:23:40,232
[clapping]

1487
01:23:40,276 --> 01:23:42,582
Spredeman, he is
truly a magician, an artist.

1488
01:23:42,626 --> 01:23:44,715
Oh, look at the pass
along the outside wall.

1489
01:23:45,411 --> 01:23:47,457
This is the kind of situation

1490
01:23:47,500 --> 01:23:49,328
that Tony Spredeman thrives on.

1491
01:23:51,156 --> 01:23:53,028
Todd, of course, the
master of the adjustment.

1492
01:23:56,161 --> 01:23:58,381
And Todd Loffredo cuts
the lead to one.

1493
01:24:01,775 --> 01:24:03,951
Spredeman looking
the left hand, there it is.

1494
01:24:03,995 --> 01:24:06,258
So game number one
goes to Tony Spredeman.

1495
01:24:06,302 --> 01:24:08,391
Even if Tony only
played with his left hand

1496
01:24:08,434 --> 01:24:09,696
against the best
players in the world,

1497
01:24:09,740 --> 01:24:11,611
he would
still be a top 10 player.

1498
01:24:11,655 --> 01:24:14,614
That's how good he is
at playing with one hand.

1499
01:24:14,658 --> 01:24:16,399
His off hand, by the way.

1500
01:24:18,575 --> 01:24:21,404
[man] Well right now, this is a
step up even from what we
normally see from Tony,

1501
01:24:21,447 --> 01:24:24,450
you know, playing an up tempo,
aggressive game.

1502
01:24:24,494 --> 01:24:27,584
-[Jim] Blocked, taken away.
-[man] Look at the pace.

1503
01:24:27,627 --> 01:24:31,327
But when he, when Tony Spredeman
wants to play at this pace,
no one can keep up with him.

1504
01:24:31,370 --> 01:24:33,633
[Jim] A highly
motivated Tony Spredeman

1505
01:24:33,677 --> 01:24:35,896
who is playing the game
about as well as you can.

1506
01:24:35,940 --> 01:24:37,942
And there is the pass,
the pull shoot

1507
01:24:37,985 --> 01:24:40,075
from the most
exciting play in table soccer

1508
01:24:40,118 --> 01:24:41,902
and it's two games to nothing.

1509
01:24:41,946 --> 01:24:43,078
Third game underway.

1510
01:24:46,211 --> 01:24:48,474
Todd Loffredo needs this first
goal, you would think,

1511
01:24:48,518 --> 01:24:50,607
to try to generate
some sort of momentum.

1512
01:24:56,700 --> 01:24:57,396
Loffredo.

1513
01:25:01,139 --> 01:25:03,315
Strokes it home
to the lawn hole.

1514
01:25:03,359 --> 01:25:06,144
The crowd, the Loffredo
fans coming alive

1515
01:25:06,188 --> 01:25:07,406
and he's gonna call timeout.

1516
01:25:08,103 --> 01:25:08,886
Ouch.

1517
01:25:11,671 --> 01:25:15,153
[Jim] Todd Loffredo comes out
to get the first goal of game
number three

1518
01:25:15,197 --> 01:25:18,069
and calls timeout just to kind
of hold on to it for a second.

1519
01:25:18,113 --> 01:25:19,114
He's in the lead.

1520
01:25:20,158 --> 01:25:22,160
Let's enjoy that.

1521
01:25:22,204 --> 01:25:24,423
Let's see if we can
turn the momentum around.

1522
01:25:25,207 --> 01:25:27,296
[Mike] It's the old lion
trying to fight back.

1523
01:25:37,697 --> 01:25:40,744
[Mike] There's a debate,
there's always this debate.

1524
01:25:40,787 --> 01:25:43,529
People trying to
compare the 70s players

1525
01:25:43,573 --> 01:25:45,923
to the 80s, 90s,
this century's players.

1526
01:25:47,054 --> 01:25:48,708
No matter what the rules are,

1527
01:25:48,752 --> 01:25:50,188
no matter how we change it up,

1528
01:25:50,232 --> 01:25:52,059
even if we made
every single player

1529
01:25:52,103 --> 01:25:53,974
shoot a pull shot,
the best players

1530
01:25:54,018 --> 01:25:55,498
are still
gonna be the same guys.

1531
01:25:56,542 --> 01:25:58,153
Well, there's Todd Loffredo.

1532
01:25:58,675 --> 01:26:01,765
He's the best player now too.
You don't have that debate.

1533
01:26:01,808 --> 01:26:03,593
It's the same guy.

1534
01:26:04,637 --> 01:26:06,857
[Jim] Loffredo taking a look.
Has that one knocked down,

1535
01:26:06,900 --> 01:26:08,772
stabbed backwards, then
towards Tony's goal.

1536
01:26:08,815 --> 01:26:10,339
[man] Todd's battling here.
I mean,

1537
01:26:10,382 --> 01:26:11,992
and it's really all he's got
left right now.

1538
01:26:12,036 --> 01:26:13,298
He's just got to keep fighting.

1539
01:26:15,300 --> 01:26:18,260
[Jim] And that one blocked back
into the goal by Loffredo.

1540
01:26:18,303 --> 01:26:19,783
Todd needed that one.

1541
01:26:21,872 --> 01:26:24,570
Loffredo now surges ahead
2-1 here in game number three,

1542
01:26:24,614 --> 01:26:27,094
a game he has
to have to stay alive.

1543
01:26:28,183 --> 01:26:30,837
[Charles] Todd Loffredo quite
simply best player ever to play
the game.

1544
01:26:30,881 --> 01:26:35,451
You stack up his accomplishments
simply from 17 years on.

1545
01:26:36,278 --> 01:26:38,018
Michael Phelps
couldn't even do that.

1546
01:26:51,902 --> 01:26:54,861
[Jim] Now steps into the forward
position. Looks to go from
his five to his three.

1547
01:26:54,905 --> 01:26:56,602
[Charles] Maybe take some
chances right now. I mean,

1548
01:26:56,646 --> 01:26:58,474
he really doesn't
have anything to lose.

1549
01:27:03,261 --> 01:27:04,828
[Jim]
Pass through the lane here.

1550
01:27:08,527 --> 01:27:12,270
Loffredo gonna shoot
the snake shot and he's going
to score. How about that?

1551
01:27:12,314 --> 01:27:15,447
-[clapping]
-[Charles] Well, best pull
shot in the history of the game.

1552
01:27:15,491 --> 01:27:17,449
Tee it up, why not?

1553
01:27:17,493 --> 01:27:19,799
[Mike] No heroes, no sport.

1554
01:27:20,409 --> 01:27:22,193
You got to have heroes.

1555
01:27:22,237 --> 01:27:24,151
You got to have
people that are out there

1556
01:27:24,195 --> 01:27:26,371
that are being looked up to,

1557
01:27:26,415 --> 01:27:28,504
that people
want to be, so you have

1558
01:27:28,547 --> 01:27:30,549
to have heroes in your sport.

1559
01:27:30,593 --> 01:27:33,204
OK. In foosball,
how do you make a hero?

1560
01:27:34,553 --> 01:27:37,643
[Jim] Now four-three but
it remains championship point

1561
01:27:37,687 --> 01:27:39,950
for Spredeman who
could close it right here.

1562
01:27:41,038 --> 01:27:44,259
Tony Spredeman looking for the Tornado World Championship.

1563
01:27:53,268 --> 01:27:55,270
[cheering]

1564
01:28:01,580 --> 01:28:07,064
[announcer] The Singles
Champion, Tony Spredeman!

1565
01:28:13,244 --> 01:28:16,900
[reporter] The last five, six,
eight, ten years, the greatest
player in American table soccer,

1566
01:28:16,943 --> 01:28:19,598
the record you've put together
tournament after tournament,

1567
01:28:19,642 --> 01:28:20,425
how do you stay motivated?

1568
01:28:23,602 --> 01:28:25,169
I love to win.

1569
01:28:25,212 --> 01:28:26,213
[laughing]

1570
01:28:26,257 --> 01:28:28,433
[cheering]

1571
01:28:32,002 --> 01:28:36,354
And... of course I hate to lose.

1572
01:28:36,398 --> 01:28:38,182
[laughing]

1573
01:28:38,225 --> 01:28:40,924
But I truly,
I just love the game.

1574
01:28:40,967 --> 01:28:45,058
Uh, I love all the people,
I love what it does for me.

1575
01:28:45,102 --> 01:28:48,018
-[man] We love you.
-[woman] We love you, Tony.

1576
01:28:48,061 --> 01:28:49,933
Yeah, it's, uh,
it's special to me.

1577
01:28:50,499 --> 01:28:53,632
[reporter] Well that was
a special performance,
no question about it.

1578
01:28:59,899 --> 01:29:01,292
[Bud] Hello?

1579
01:29:01,945 --> 01:29:03,686
Hey, what's up, Buddy?

1580
01:29:06,689 --> 01:29:09,561
Yep, yep, what's going on, man?

1581
01:29:25,055 --> 01:29:28,450
That was fi- that was
five in Singles.

1582
01:29:28,493 --> 01:29:30,626
-Now I'm tied with Fred--
I, I'm tied with uh--

1583
01:29:34,630 --> 01:29:37,372
-Alright, Buddy,
I'm gonna go cruise.

1584
01:29:39,635 --> 01:29:41,027
-Love you, Pop, see you, Buddy.

1585
01:29:42,507 --> 01:29:43,334
Later.

1586
01:29:44,857 --> 01:29:46,555
[laughing]

1587
01:29:48,992 --> 01:29:52,256
[Mike] My dad was a
highly successful person.

1588
01:29:52,299 --> 01:29:54,954
He had told me
forget about the car

1589
01:29:54,998 --> 01:29:57,000
in the driveway and
the chicken in every pot.

1590
01:29:57,043 --> 01:29:59,916
He goes, "That
is our American dream.

1591
01:29:59,959 --> 01:30:01,874
That is not
your American dream."

1592
01:30:02,701 --> 01:30:06,879
But I'm sure
beyond his wildest dreams,

1593
01:30:06,923 --> 01:30:11,014
he did not think that, you know,
the alternative pursuit

1594
01:30:11,057 --> 01:30:14,365
was gonna be foosball
and then finally,

1595
01:30:14,409 --> 01:30:17,977
when it came in that I won
and got all the publicity

1596
01:30:18,021 --> 01:30:21,024
for it, it was a game
changer for my dad.

1597
01:30:22,808 --> 01:30:27,900
You know, he saw me
as a world champion.

1598
01:30:29,032 --> 01:30:29,902
What can I say?

1599
01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:39,869
[Doug] What this is, is a letter
I wrote to Sports Illustrated

1600
01:30:39,912 --> 01:30:44,134
to make them aware of
foosball and what was happening

1601
01:30:44,177 --> 01:30:49,922
in hopes that I would
make the magazine someday.

1602
01:30:50,445 --> 01:30:54,666
"It's my belief that
the pages of Sports Illustrated

1603
01:30:54,710 --> 01:30:57,756
should honor the top players
in every sport.

1604
01:30:57,800 --> 01:31:00,019
The transition
from superstar status

1605
01:31:00,063 --> 01:31:03,632
to that of an ordinary guy
with an ordinary job

1606
01:31:03,675 --> 01:31:06,417
has been especially
painful for me,

1607
01:31:06,461 --> 01:31:09,464
but having my career recognized
by Sports Illustrated

1608
01:31:09,507 --> 01:31:11,988
would erase some of that pain

1609
01:31:12,031 --> 01:31:14,294
and end the story
on a positive note."

1610
01:31:18,560 --> 01:31:21,171
[Tony] A lot of people
know what foosball is

1611
01:31:22,302 --> 01:31:24,609
but nobody really knew that
it was played professionally.

1612
01:31:26,481 --> 01:31:29,484
When people ask me
what I do for a living

1613
01:31:29,527 --> 01:31:33,009
and they hear
my response, they laugh.

1614
01:31:33,749 --> 01:31:38,057
Foosball player's
not a typical profession.

1615
01:31:38,101 --> 01:31:40,973
We all have a common interest.

1616
01:31:41,017 --> 01:31:44,324
We share a passion
for a game that just

1617
01:31:44,368 --> 01:31:46,849
kind of brings
everybody together.

1618
01:31:46,892 --> 01:31:48,546
I didn't have many
friends in high school.

1619
01:31:48,590 --> 01:31:51,114
I was a foosball player,
I wasn't a football player.

1620
01:31:51,636 --> 01:31:53,595
I was in my own world.

1621
01:31:53,638 --> 01:31:55,335
I was obsessed.

1622
01:31:55,379 --> 01:31:57,250
I still am, I still am.

1623
01:31:57,294 --> 01:31:58,513
I'm obsessed with foosball.

1624
01:31:58,556 --> 01:31:59,644
It's been my whole life.

1625
01:32:08,131 --> 01:32:12,570
After Worlds, sold the house.
Completely downsized.

1626
01:32:12,614 --> 01:32:16,487
I ended up buying a motor home,
Class A RV.

1627
01:32:16,531 --> 01:32:18,271
The bus, the Foos bus.

1628
01:32:18,315 --> 01:32:20,839
I'm a big heavy metal fan.

1629
01:32:20,883 --> 01:32:24,713
I figured, what the hell?
Get a tour bus and hit
the road just like they do

1630
01:32:24,756 --> 01:32:29,282
and I got an assortment of wraps
and just merchandise,

1631
01:32:29,326 --> 01:32:31,328
so we got one hell
of a road trip coming up.

1632
01:32:32,503 --> 01:32:33,678
-Let's go.
-Kick ass.

1633
01:32:33,722 --> 01:32:36,942
Cool buddy.
Alright, let's do it.

1634
01:32:38,901 --> 01:32:43,993
[Tony] I'm trying to keep the
vagabond lifestyle alive.

1635
01:32:44,036 --> 01:32:48,650
'Cause the new generation of
players, I don't think
has that in them.

1636
01:32:49,651 --> 01:32:52,349
[Bud] Got a dog
sitting on my lap.

1637
01:32:52,392 --> 01:32:54,394
-Dixie freaked like
"where's my house going?"
-Yep.

1638
01:32:54,438 --> 01:32:56,962
[chuckles] She kind of freaked.

1639
01:32:57,006 --> 01:32:58,616
Said what the hell's
this shit, man?

1640
01:32:58,660 --> 01:33:01,750
Yup, we fucking maybe pulling
the car behind this thing too.

1641
01:33:01,793 --> 01:33:03,621
[Bud] Right. Fucking shit or get
off the pot. Look at her.

1642
01:33:03,665 --> 01:33:04,927
She just walked
right in front of you.

1643
01:33:06,406 --> 01:33:08,931
[upbeat music]

1644
01:33:45,620 --> 01:33:47,360
[Bud] Copper, copper.

1645
01:33:47,404 --> 01:33:49,014
Yep, I see him, I see him.

1646
01:33:52,452 --> 01:33:55,325
[Bud] Maybe you got lucky.
Let's see.

1647
01:33:55,368 --> 01:33:57,936
That one-handed driving's gonna
backfire on you.

1648
01:33:57,980 --> 01:34:01,200
[Tony] Big- big truck wins.
Get the fuck outta the way.

1649
01:34:01,244 --> 01:34:02,680
[Bud] Yeah, right, jackass.

1650
01:34:02,724 --> 01:34:04,029
Jackass.

1651
01:34:04,073 --> 01:34:05,727
-Going to get in our way.
-[Tony] Yeah. Some--

1652
01:34:05,770 --> 01:34:07,467
[Bud] One dude who said,
"I'm getting there--"

1653
01:34:07,511 --> 01:34:09,687
[Tony] Yeah, I'm gonna go to
fucking, go hiking in the dark?.

1654
01:34:09,731 --> 01:34:11,210
[Bud] Yeah, right, dumbass.

1655
01:34:11,254 --> 01:34:12,603
[laughing]

1656
01:34:12,647 --> 01:34:13,778
[Bud] Happens to me every day.

1657
01:34:41,632 --> 01:34:45,070
[announcer] Here and it comes
back to Dave. And there it is!

1658
01:34:45,114 --> 01:34:48,857
Dave Gummeson puts it
away as Team USA

1659
01:34:48,900 --> 01:34:52,991
wins their fifth
World Cup Championship

1660
01:34:53,035 --> 01:34:56,865
in a great match
against Team France.

1661
01:35:17,189 --> 01:35:19,496
[laughter]

1662
01:35:19,539 --> 01:35:20,845
[laughing]

1663
01:35:20,889 --> 01:35:23,674
[Bud speaks indistinctly]

1664
01:35:34,772 --> 01:35:37,122
[presenter] On behalf of
the Hall of Fame Committee,
it's my honor

1665
01:35:37,166 --> 01:35:39,385
to introduce
Hall of Fame inductee,

1666
01:35:39,429 --> 01:35:40,256
Tommy Adkisson.

1667
01:35:41,344 --> 01:35:43,476
[clapping]

1668
01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:45,740
[cheering]

1669
01:36:14,333 --> 01:36:16,509
You're typically watching
good ball.

1670
01:36:17,380 --> 01:36:19,686
How could that not be
the sweetest trophy in here?