Yeah I think the days when your sponsor just gave you patches to put on whatever shirt your wearing was a better idea lol
Pool jersey's, love 'em or hate 'em..??
- Thread starter garczar
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And you missed, badly. Tournaments should never have to supply shirts at events. What little individuality that is left in pool evaporates if all players are dressed alike like mindless corporate stooges. I like DCC, no telling what you're going to see. As long as the shirt is clean and inoffensively logo'd/printed i say let them wear whatever. For pro tour events a nice golf shirt looks great.
"What little individuality that is left in pool evaporates if all players are dressed alike like mindless corporate stooges."
exactly! Leave corporate leadership out of sports. A prime example: Brent Dewar, NASCAR. They've had to (& still are) dig out of the hole he dug.You have to have corporate participation, even leadership, but the players should be able to dress as they please. In any sport with corporate involvement there will always be some degree of 'toeing-the-line' but its easy for that to go too far."What little individuality that is left in pool evaporates if all players are dressed alike like mindless corporate stooges."
Though I suppose you could get an oversized one, one of the problems with the jerseys is that unless you're a young svelte player you end up looking like a squeezed sausage about to bust out of its casing.
But then you have to ask: are they better and more professional looking than shirts with stick-on sponsor labels that keep peeling up. At the pool hall they have the Billiard Channel on all the time and occasionally some British 8ball comes up and every single player, men and women, are wearing a jersey with their name on the back. Personally, I think myself and a lot of us would look pretty silly in them.
Lou Figueroa
But then you have to ask: are they better and more professional looking than shirts with stick-on sponsor labels that keep peeling up. At the pool hall they have the Billiard Channel on all the time and occasionally some British 8ball comes up and every single player, men and women, are wearing a jersey with their name on the back. Personally, I think myself and a lot of us would look pretty silly in them.
Lou Figueroa
Totally agree. I've seen more than a few players that should have been fined for 'abuse of spandex stretch capability'.
Yes, once again, I'm living in the past. Thanks for the correction.
WobblyStroke
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I need to make my way into the friend group that makes these types of bets and actually pay out. This eclipses the best bet I won off a friend by a mile... As a hairy-chested Spaniard, he had to shave a big heart on his chest and walk around shirtless for a few days at the beach while camping. Nowadays, 20years older, guys mostly buyout with a nice bottle of tequila, but if someone lost a bet that makes them wear that outfit to a pool hall I don't think I'd even consider letting them out for less than $1000.
Watching Melling at the CO Open, he fit the bill here perfectly. Homely shirt and too tight. Making them tuck in shirts is a little strange too. Some of the jerseys and golf style shirts look just fine untucked. It's all ball fouls and if you want to take the risk of being untucked and shirt touching a ball, that's on the player.
Melling and spandex do not belong in the same sentence.
Benelli
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Let's take that up a notch... " Billiards and Spandex should never be in the same paragraph"
Sort of what it looked like in 90s Accu Stats tapes, which always seemed fine to me.
Well...if anyone wants to sponsor me for a few million dollars, I will put just about anything on a shirt for you! Please do!!
slacks always looked super strange to me. seeing anyone playin them just off looking
3c, 9b,
probably since ive never nor would wear slacks
the shirt was fine.
While I'm not a fan of jerseys for regular players out playing or leagues, what's really appalling at leagues is having to look the other way because of your opponent's crack on their ass showing. We have two players on one of our leagues that when they bend over to shoot about half of their ass shows. It's absolutely disgusting, I want to walk over while they are bent over and pour my beer down the crack of their ass, but it would be such a waste of a good beer though. If any of you reading this might be one of those persons, please cinch your belt up another notch and save us from having to look away while you shoot.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
Dropping a quarter in the slot also works.
I also prefer just wearing a shirt, and going slack-less. Shirt just needs to be longer.
If it's generic and/or it supports your favorite player or shop and/or it's humorous I'm fine with it. Like my Omega Billiards jersey with the sponsorship patch from Acme (the Roadrunner one).
If it has your name on it, you're not part of an APA team in a tournament, and/or you don't have at least a 700 Fargo rating you're a pretentious wannabe.
I'd wear one of Niels' jerseys because he's contributed so much to the sport. An SVB jersey would be like my Aikman jersey, fine at any event from slimy pool halls to weddings.
If it has your name on it, you're not part of an APA team in a tournament, and/or you don't have at least a 700 Fargo rating you're a pretentious wannabe.
I'd wear one of Niels' jerseys because he's contributed so much to the sport. An SVB jersey would be like my Aikman jersey, fine at any event from slimy pool halls to weddings.