This is what put pool back decades

The problem with pool in America is that while we've all say back and bragged about the gambling, hustling of it as a way to better American players and the REAL judge of a player....the rest of the world picked up on this game, brought honor and passion to it, and made it their OWN game, as in no longer exclusively an American game....while North America still insisted in staying in the dark ages....and didn't care one bit about the growing of this game out of country. Where are we now rated to the best players from other countries....that 25 years ago couldn't hold a candle to our champions.
 
Drago did a lot of celebrating there in 2007 -- he won 4 singles matches and was MVP in Team Europe's 11-8 victory.

2007 was just Team Europe's third Cup victory, against 10 losses and one tie. But it was the beginning of the stretch they are still in, winning 9 of the last 10 Cups.

Drago played again in 2008. While Team Europe won again, Drago lost both his singles matches and his only doubles match.

His career MC record stands at 4 wins & 2 losses in singles, 0 wins & 2 losses in doubles, and 1 win & 1 loss in the teams matches.
 
realkingcobra said:
The problem with pool in America is that while we've all say back and bragged about the gambling, hustling of it as a way to better American players and the REAL judge of a player....the rest of the world picked up on this game, brought honor and passion to it, and made it their OWN game, as in no longer exclusively an American game....while North America still insisted in staying in the dark ages....and didn't care one bit about the growing of this game out of country. Where are we now rated to the best players from other countries....that 25 years ago couldn't hold a candle to our champions.
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You just hit the jackpot!
Absolutely right, in my opinion.:thumbup:
 
Why, do you even worry about it? None of you have any power, whatsoever, to influence what goes on in the wide world of cue sports, anyway.
Keeping the doors open at your local pool hall should be a bigger priority.
 
The Markster said:
https://youtu.be/bFmwAvTn3ss?t=1m18s

How embarrassing lol...
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NO, don't be ridiculous.

High cost of real estate, pool room owners lack of ability to adapt to things like smoking bans and internet are whats put pool on a decline.

Average Joe who's deciding what to do on a Friday night has most likely never heard of Earl Strickland, doesn't care about professional pool and only has even odds at best of naming that hot Asian lady that plays professional pool.
 
realkingcobra said:
The problem with pool in America is that while we've all say back and bragged about the gambling, hustling of it as a way to better American players and the REAL judge of a player....the rest of the world picked up on this game, brought honor and passion to it, and made it their OWN game, as in no longer exclusively an American game....while North America still insisted in staying in the dark ages....and didn't care one bit about the growing of this game out of country. Where are we now rated to the best players from other countries....that 25 years ago couldn't hold a candle to our champions.
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I agree completely with Glen here, but I also think it goes beyond that. Look at Snooker in the UK and European countries,,,,,,,, those guys play for mega bucks in arenas filled with fans and prime time TV coverage. They are rock stars. A couple of top ten finishes a year and they live a very nice lifestyle. On the other hand, we have our best players playing our major tournaments for $10k in a bar or poolroom with 30 or fourty people watching and half a dozen tables in the background with gambling going on. Now this is great in that I love poolrooms and the gambling but it is not the face that pool in america will ever grow with. The UK has the same things, pubs with snooker tables and gambling, but they don't put it on TV to represent the sport. We need to get major tournaments out of poolrooms and into areas where people can take their families and get the youth impressed by our best players. Major tournaments should be events, not a corner table that just happens to have enough room around it for a couple of cameras and a commentator.
 
realkingcobra said:
The problem with pool in America is that while we've all say back and bragged about the gambling, hustling of it as a way to better American players and the REAL judge of a player....the rest of the world picked up on this game, brought honor and passion to it, and made it their OWN game, as in no longer exclusively an American game....while North America still insisted in staying in the dark ages....and didn't care one bit about the growing of this game out of country. Where are we now rated to the best players from other countries....that 25 years ago couldn't hold a candle to our champions.
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Tap tap tap.

Those that understand, expand their border, are ambassadors and understand bettering the game is bettering themselves. -philosophy that can be applied to more than just pool.

Gandhi said, Be the change you want to see in the world.
 
Island Drive said:
Nope, a miniscule amount of people on the planet saw that. The movie the Hustler, then the Color of Money set the American mindset in Concrete about life around a pool table.
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Pool was a scumbag lifestyle long before the color of money ever came out.
I will agree it didn't help but the movie was actually a day at the Senior Citizens club compared to the real lifestyle.
 
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