My wife thinks what I enjoy watching is worse, and to most folks it is. But, I can watch billiards being played by pros for hours, because I love to play myself.
My wife thinks what I enjoy watching is worse, and to most folks it is. But, I can watch billiards being played by pros for hours, because I love to play myself.
Much as I enjoy billiards (grew up with a table in my bedroom) I have not got to the point of being able to watch it on TV. I am not a weekend regular in front of the tv wacthing sports as so many are, but as you rightly point out, a competence in a sport vastly increases the likelihood of enjoying watching it.
I'll watch golf and tennis occasionally. Baseball never (never played but I did play cricket) although I like listening to it on the radio and used to have season tickets to the Blue Jays. Basketball.....never. I didn't play it. Football once in a while. Hockey during the playoffs. Alpine skiing I love to watch. Good slalom watersking I could watch for hours. I like watching the competence and knowledge of the sport allows me to appreciate that competence.
And while reruns of sporting events, where the outcome is known, seems pointless to me, I can watch the 1973 Preakness and the 1973 Belmont Stakes endlessly.
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The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
Four time nine-ball world champion Johnny Archer grew up and learned to shoot as a kid just a few miles down the road from me. I followed his career, as much as I could watching TV, until he retired from pro level competition. He now shoots local tournaments where I have had the opportunity to get to know him better, and try to learn from his techniques. Billiards has been a fascination for me ever since high school. In college I majored in agriculture and minored in snooker. Spent about as much time in Kendrick's Recreation Center, the local pool hall in Tifton, as I did in class at school.
I played golf in high school and college but lost interest in playing the game as an adult. It's a ritual for my wife and I to watch the closing round of The Masters Golf Tournament, here in Augusta, each April. The Augusta National, where it is held, has to be one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. It's like a paradise.
Four time nine-ball world champion Johnny Archer grew up and learned to shoot as a kid just a few miles down the road from me. I followed his career, as much as I could watching TV, until he retired from pro level competition. He now shoots local tournaments where I have had the opportunity to get to know him better, and try to learn from his techniques. Billiards has been a fascination for me ever since high school. In college I majored in agriculture and minored in snooker. Spent about as much time in Kendrick's Recreation Center, the local pool hall in Tifton, as I did in class at school.
I played golf in high school and college but lost interest in playing the game as an adult. It's a ritual for my wife and I to watch the closing round of The Masters Golf Tournament, here in Augusta, each April. The Augusta National, where it is held, has to be one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. It's like a paradise.
Cliff Thorburn, first and only non British World snooker champion used to play at the pool hall my friends and I played at during Uni days in the mid 1970s.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
I have a lot of respect for the game of snooker. It seems to me to be a game for gentlemen. I saw lots of money won and lost at the front snooker table at Kendrick's, but never a fight. The rack man pulled a knife out one time and put it to the throat of a mouthy shooter who had called him "Monkey Man" because his ears stuck out. But, there wasn't a fight. IMO, snooker is to billiards what FITASC is to clay target shooting.
James, for sheer entertainment find a video of some of the Mosconi Cup, which is held annually, alternating between America and England. It is the American team against the European team and consists of team and individual matches. The audiences are raucous, loud and very much into the competition. I want to go to the Mosconi Cup when it comes back to America in 2026. It was in Orlando last year but I couldn't go. It really looks like a lot of fun. Many fans don face paint and clothes that represent their favorite team's homeland.
James, for sheer entertainment find a video of some of the Mosconi Cup, which is held annually, alternating between America and England. It is the American team against the European team and consists of team and individual matches. The audiences are raucous, loud and very much into the competition. I want to go to the Mosconi Cup when it comes back to America in 2026. It was in Orlando last year but I couldn't go. It really looks like a lot of fun. Many fans don face paint and clothes that represent their favorite team's homeland.
That’s crazy! If there’s a flight to Mildenhall I’m going!
Not to interrupt your billy-ards thread but the Canes got rocked in Raleigh tonight.
_____________________________ Ted, you play the billy-ards?
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IMO, snooker is to billiards what FITASC is to clay target shooting.