With commercials and all
Classic match Varner and Strickland 84
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Jay helfert makes a cameo in the vid
Rempe and hall after the first match
Rempe and hall after the first match
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Ha ha, the graphics intro of the pool table with the balls flying off was awesome! 1980's graphics and music! ha ha
A few comments:
-The table is off level a mile.
-Earl's tournament winnings for the year to date were $52,216. Nick Varner $3,132.
-Can you say flat rack?
-Accu-Stats and Pat are on site and mentioned. They are keeping the stats.
-They have a "new" rule of push out allowed after the break. Did they play the prior televised 9 ball matches with no push after the break?
-The logo on the table looks bad. One, I can't even tell what its advertising. Two, it should have been the same proportions of the table, instead of a square.
-Varner rides the 9 hard in the first rack! ha ha. Way more exciting than call everything.
-Earl is breaking and playing what the same Meucci cue.
-Kim Davenport demonstrates the jumping CB off the cushion nose to send it down table.
-These pros still spin in the 9 ball shot in 1984
-Varner's stroke is crooked.
-Tapdancing TV guide commercial.
-"Corner Pocket" is a sponsor, and franchise opportunities are available. They have great food and drink, and pool is the dessert. They had a nice production commercial. I realized later they are the logo on the table.
-Nick jumps over a cluster of 2 balls with his playing cue.
-ESPN shows the scenery outside of Tahoe. I haven't seen that in the time since, except until MR started their events this past couple of years.
-The table is off level a mile.
-Earl's tournament winnings for the year to date were $52,216. Nick Varner $3,132.
-Can you say flat rack?
-Accu-Stats and Pat are on site and mentioned. They are keeping the stats.
-They have a "new" rule of push out allowed after the break. Did they play the prior televised 9 ball matches with no push after the break?
-The logo on the table looks bad. One, I can't even tell what its advertising. Two, it should have been the same proportions of the table, instead of a square.
-Varner rides the 9 hard in the first rack! ha ha. Way more exciting than call everything.
-Earl is breaking and playing what the same Meucci cue.
-Kim Davenport demonstrates the jumping CB off the cushion nose to send it down table.
-These pros still spin in the 9 ball shot in 1984
-Varner's stroke is crooked.
-Tapdancing TV guide commercial.
-"Corner Pocket" is a sponsor, and franchise opportunities are available. They have great food and drink, and pool is the dessert. They had a nice production commercial. I realized later they are the logo on the table.
-Nick jumps over a cluster of 2 balls with his playing cue.
-ESPN shows the scenery outside of Tahoe. I haven't seen that in the time since, except until MR started their events this past couple of years.
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A few comments:
-The table is off level a mile.
-Earl's tournament winnings for the year to date were $52,216. Nick Varner $3,132.
-Can you say flat rack?
-Accu-Stats and Pat are on site and mentioned. They are keeping the stats.
-They have a "new" rule of push out allowed after the break. Did they play the prior televised 9 ball matches with no push after the break?
-The logo on the table looks bad. One, I can't even tell what its advertising. Two, it should have been the same proportions of the table, instead of a square.
-Varner rides the 9 hard in the first rack! ha ha. Way more exciting than call everything.
-Earl is breaking and playing what the same Meucci cue.
-Kim Davenport demonstrates the jumping CB off the cushion nose to send it down table.
-These pros still spin in the 9 ball shot in 1984
-Varner's stroke is crooked.
-Tapdancing TV guide commercial.
-"Corner Pocket" is a sponsor, and franchise opportunities are available. They have great food and drink, and pool is the dessert. They had a nice production commercial. I realized later they are the logo on the table.
-Nick jumps over a cluster of 2 balls with his playing cue.
-ESPN shows the scenery outside of Tahoe. I haven't seen that in the time since, except until MR started their events this past couple of years.
I like the multi-camera ESPN productions of this era. They do a good job capturing the players expressions/emotions and also the player's stroke from different angles.
I didn’t see Davenport.A few comments:
-The table is off level a mile.
-Earl's tournament winnings for the year to date were $52,216. Nick Varner $3,132.
-Can you say flat rack?
-Accu-Stats and Pat are on site and mentioned. They are keeping the stats.
-They have a "new" rule of push out allowed after the break. Did they play the prior televised 9 ball matches with no push after the break?
-The logo on the table looks bad. One, I can't even tell what its advertising. Two, it should have been the same proportions of the table, instead of a square.
-Varner rides the 9 hard in the first rack! ha ha. Way more exciting than call everything.
-Earl is breaking and playing what the same Meucci cue.
-Kim Davenport demonstrates the jumping CB off the cushion nose to send it down table.
-These pros still spin in the 9 ball shot in 1984
-Varner's stroke is crooked.
-Tapdancing TV guide commercial.
-"Corner Pocket" is a sponsor, and franchise opportunities are available. They have great food and drink, and pool is the dessert. They had a nice production commercial. I realized later they are the logo on the table.
-Nick jumps over a cluster of 2 balls with his playing cue.
-ESPN shows the scenery outside of Tahoe. I haven't seen that in the time since, except until MR started their events this past couple of years.
They had a bunch of different rules in the 80’s. Spot up, behind the line… and then full table BIH after scratch.
This table definitely is not level.
Does the logo slow down the balls???
The conditions aren’t anywhere near as nice as today’s equipment.
Let’s all smoke on TV!
What in the world are they walking on?
The 80’s hairstyles were in full display.
No non- Hall of Famers (Nick, Earl, King James, Buddy and Hopkins)
Everyone breaking from the bed, no automatic balls, all trying to smash with control. They’d start breaking from the side rail in the following years.
Is there any doubt that these guys in their prime with today’s equipment would play just as high? Imagine if they didn’t have to worry about smashing the break. Hall, who didnt break as well as Varner and Strickland or Sigel would have thrived in today’s game.
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He was in between racks showing the shot as a lesson. I think in the early racks. (honest I fell asleep half way through!) It looks like he only had one take at it as he hit it bad but still got out. ha ha.
I thought the logo on the table was horrible. I also want to know how it was put on. Did it affect the roll of the balls? Who thought that was a good idea? LolA few comments:
-The table is off level a mile.
-Earl's tournament winnings for the year to date were $52,216. Nick Varner $3,132.
-Can you say flat rack?
-Accu-Stats and Pat are on site and mentioned. They are keeping the stats.
-They have a "new" rule of push out allowed after the break. Did they play the prior televised 9 ball matches with no push after the break?
-The logo on the table looks bad. One, I can't even tell what its advertising. Two, it should have been the same proportions of the table, instead of a square.
-Varner rides the 9 hard in the first rack! ha ha. Way more exciting than call everything.
-Earl is breaking and playing what the same Meucci cue.
-Kim Davenport demonstrates the jumping CB off the cushion nose to send it down table.
-These pros still spin in the 9 ball shot in 1984
-Varner's stroke is crooked.
-Tapdancing TV guide commercial.
-"Corner Pocket" is a sponsor, and franchise opportunities are available. They have great food and drink, and pool is the dessert. They had a nice production commercial. I realized later they are the logo on the table.
-Nick jumps over a cluster of 2 balls with his playing cue.
-ESPN shows the scenery outside of Tahoe. I haven't seen that in the time since, except until MR started their events this past couple of years.
And let the credit ride.
I was wondering the same. I didn’t notice and weird rolls on it. I believe in one of the overhead camera shots it had looked like it was not perfectly centered on the table. If that was the case, maybe it was put on by the cloth vendor, before the cloth was installed onto the table, and less likely to affect the balls? I’m just guessing.
That graphic intro probably cost half the budget for the whole production at the time.
That was the crowning achievement of some designer's career.
The commercial at 1:12.43 (direct link to timestamp should work below) gives away the winners, at it announces the next round players for the following night.
Thanks, didn't watch the whole thing but it was good to see the old school stuff. I have to give props to Denver legend Irv Brown, RIP. Hearing his voice on anything brings back memories. He played, coached, and announced everything. 6x ref at Final Four. Don't know for sure, but judging from the trick shot they had him do, and a comment or two he made when announcing pool, he maybe just once went to a pool hall on Denver's north side. before or after graduating from North High. He stressed to all us kids at his baseball camp that the goal of the camp was to make it so that if you didn't make a team it was because somebody was just better, not because you didn't know the fundamentals. So they stressed fundamentals. Makes sense in a lot of things.
In my high school physics class, probably 1994, the teacher said graphics like that cost $5000 per second at the time, and he'd be better off quitting his job and doing that work. But he liked the kids too much. ha ha.