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Kickin' Chicken

Kickin' Chicken

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I posted this link some time ago and I have to say it is so impressive; watching Earl at 22 years old getting better and better with each rack played, I had to post it one more time.

Poor Miz had no chance at all.

Shotmaking, stroke, brilliant position play, and yes, even a H-U-G-E jump shot made with his playing cue (Meucci?). You have to see this one!

If you never saw it, you are in for a real treat.

I wish the video quality was better but at least it is memorialized.

Circa 1983 from Ceasers, Lake Tahoe.

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8vzkWtdP8g

Best,
Brian kc
 
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That is a great clip of Lil Earl. Thanks for posting again. Its funny how his stroke has changed over the years.
 
Ya it is strange how a top guy changed his stroke over the years...i am an efren guy but do enjoy watching earl when he is winning.
 
Little Earl

Great video post! I'd rep you but I have to spread it around more first.

This is also great since I've never seen The Miz play pool before. He sure does have a straight stroke. No side wiggle at all! Good stuff.
Interesting how much more vocal the crowds were back then. Kind of like the Europeans at the Mosconi cup.
 
I loved the video Brian and I'm a big Earl fan from NC but it was hard to look at Howard Vickery doing the trick shot and not think about the poor little girl he plead gilty to molesting, I think she was kin to him. ssob.--Leonard
 
Kickin' Chicken said:
I posted this link some time ago and I have to say it is so impressive; watching Earl at 22 years old getting better and better with each rack played, I had to post it one more time.

Poor Miz had no chance at all.

Shotmaking, stroke, brilliant position play, and yes, even a H-U-G-E jump shot made with his playing cue (Meucci?). You have to see this one!

If you never saw it, you are in for a real treat.

I wish the video quality was better but at least it is memorialized.

Circa 1983 from Ceasers, Lake Tahoe.

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8vzkWtdP8g

Best,
Brian kc
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I watched him play a lot about that time. He may play a flawless match then half hour later be playing a match and go off the air. He would get behind in the match and rake in the balls with like 5 balls left conceding games or, as I saw him do like a dozen times, just quit in the middle of the match and forfeit because he was behind and got a bad roll or two. He can play but if you have seen him play as much as I have it is hard to have respect for the guy. I was at one tournament and he carried on so bad the owner of the room threw him out of the tournament and the room. He began calling on the phone like every ten minutes cursing the owner and calling him all kinds of names. Earl is crazy and he always has been.
 
Was that...

Was that Dave Piona with the big mustache and puffy hair at the end of the video congratulating him?
 
Jump full table with a meucci.......HOW STRONG IS THAT!

you want to eat with chopsticks go back to china
-Earl Rogan
 
Uh-Huh

Kickin' Chicken said:
I posted this link some time ago and I have to say it is so impressive; watching Earl at 22 years old getting better and better with each rack played, I had to post it one more time.

Poor Miz had no chance at all.

Shotmaking, stroke, brilliant position play, and yes, even a H-U-G-E jump shot made with his playing cue (Meucci?). You have to see this one!

If you never saw it, you are in for a real treat.

I wish the video quality was better but at least it is memorialized.

Circa 1983 from Ceasers, Lake Tahoe.

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8vzkWtdP8g

Best,
Brian kc
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Kickin', you realy came up with somethin' THERE!
Strickland as a "young-pup!" And-------, the most "Feard Dawg in the yard!"
Great Post!!!:woot:
 
To Earl pool is a job. An if that is true thank God, he didn't work at the post office. :eek:
 
SK Custom Cues said:
Good stuff, man. Thanks. Those must be Gusses Steve was using..... One for breaking and one for playing?
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I think they were made by Richard Black.
Playing cue was 60 or 61 inches.
Richard made him a snooker cue around that time also.

Another good one KC

Even when he's losing it's nice to watch the Miz stroke
 
beerpressure said:
Hard to watch with that yellow cloth. Why would they use such a color?
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That stuff was popular back then. I used to play at a place that had a bunch of different colors. They had a gray cloth that was much nicer to play on then either green or blue.
 
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