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I really regret that.Īnother thing that sticks out in my mind about that tourney is I think everyone besides me was wearing Joop cologne. What's more of a shame is that Red lived 20 miles from me and I never took the time to ask for lessons and such. Didn't know how legendary he actually was. I knew little about him other than he was an old player. This same tourney was the first time I saw and met Cornbread Red. So, in hindsight I may be talking about the next to last tourney steepletons had.ĭenver Barger won the tourney iirc as I think he won the year before too. Corey shouted a couple things at them and said he would be back. When corey lost a couple guys were ribbing him over it as he was breaking his cue down. It was crazy and one of the things the drew me even closer to the game. I was standing 6-7 from the table on both shots.
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Dallas made one of the best jump shots I've ever seen after Corey played a safe that was just as strong as the jump. Really? It's amazing how often some of us fanatics cross paths and never know each other.Ĭorey was put out of the tourney by Dallas West I think. I'll never forget Bucky shouting how absurd these allegations were while wearing his black leather VNEA Masters jacket from the year before. Then up comes Bucky Bell to argue our case in his typical woofing style. Turned out they were out in the hall protesting to the Tournament Directors that there was no way we could be in the Open Division with Master players like Bucky Bell on our team. Shortly, we noticed the entire opposing team had disappeared, no where to be seen. It was in the VNEA Nationals I think and we were pounding the opposing team game after game. One year circa 1997 or so I had the privilege of playing as a sub on one of those great Airway Vegas teams (Gary Spaeth, Frank Ruby, Jason Miller, Bucky Bell). Took a lesson from him and he demonstrated a firehose of shots running around the table saying "now lookie here!" Don't remember any of the shots but still can't get the "now lookie here" out of my head.