OT - SU Pool and Air Hockey Tables

[Forza Azzurri]

We are in the process of turning our basement into a sports-themed hangout area...

I found these online and I figured that, if anyone owned these, it would be someone on this board.

Anybody own one or both? If so, are they good quality?

I always worry about the quality of "themed" merchandise.

As a point of reference, looking at Olhausen and Brunswick tables if we don't go with the SU theme...

 

[NYCSUGrad]

Since no one has answered your question I will. I would think the potential quality difference would matter more for a pool table than an air hockey one. Just a guess. They both look cool, but an S on top of the air hockey table would be even cooler.

 

[Forza Azzurri]

Since no one has answered your question I will. I would think the potential quality difference would matter more for a pool table than an air hockey one. Just a guess. They both look cool, but an S on top of the air hockey table would be even cooler.

Thx...I agree with you that pool table quality matters more...

My wife actually thinks the Syracuse stuff along the sides is too much for the pool table so we are looking at getting a pool table design that she likes but putting the SU logo felt on top...

Life is about compromises...

 

[suttree]

Thx...I agree with you that pool table quality matters more...

My wife actually thinks the Syracuse stuff along the sides is too much for the pool table so we are looking at getting a pool table design that she likes but putting the SU logo felt on top...

Life is about compromises...

We need cloning technology to advance at warp speed, so we can get more SU-supportive wives like this out there for our long-suffering fan base.

Give that lovely woman whatever she wants.

 

[Forza Azzurri]

We need cloning technology to advance at warp speed, so we can get more SU-supportive wives like this out there fore our long-suffering fan base.

Give that lovely woman whatever she wants.

You have no idea...

SU-logo pool cue rack...
SU-logo billiard light over pool table...
my SU (and NY Giants etc... ) Sports memorabilia collection all over the walls...
Pinball machine...
Arcade game...
Bar...

All the stuff a guy could ever want...

As an aside, I was digging all my sports stuff out of closets for my wife to show the design people and, in with all the sports stuff were all the articles from my Nottingham soccer days...a bunch of Luddenites in there...Hei Ho (Thanh Son's brother - who I played indoor with), the Feyerabends (who I got to know at SU), and some guy named Dunst or Durst (didn't remember him...think the article said he played sweeper)...I think Oscar Vergara was the coach???

Plus a bunch of guys from CBA and Henninger: Fred Vona and Greg Goodwin (Goodwin and I were good friends), Tommy Tanner, Gino Barbuto, Sam-something - he played sweeper...all guys that I hated initially, played with them indoor and got to know them and liked them a lot...

You remember these people?

 

[JJReddawg]

Why get an air hockey table when you get can this:

 

[suttree]

You have no idea...

SU-logo pool cue rack...
SU-logo billiard light over pool table...
my SU (and NY Giants etc... ) Sports memorabilia collection all over the walls...
Pinball machine...
Arcade game...
Bar...

All the stuff a guy could ever want...

As an aside, I was digging all my sports stuff out of closets for my wife to show the design people and, in with all the sports stuff were all the articles from my Nottingham soccer days...a bunch of Luddenites in there...Hei Ho (Thanh Son's brother - who I played indoor with), the Feyerabends (who I got to know at SU), and some guy named Dunst or Durst (didn't remember him...think the article said he played sweeper)...I think Oscar Vergara was the coach???

Plus a bunch of guys from CBA and Henninger: Fred Vona and Greg Goodwin (Goodwin and I were good friends), Tommy Tanner, Gino Barbuto, Sam-something - he played sweeper...all guys that I hated initially, played with them indoor and got to know them and liked them a lot...

You remember these people?

You're damn right I remember these people. Lots of them. Hei Ho was one of a huge contingent of Vietnamese players who resettled in frosty Syracuse through Catholic Charities. He was good, but his brother Thanh Son was phenomenal (and just before my time). I didn't know Rich and Rob Feyerabend too well (I was a feckless frosh/soph), but I stopped in front of sweeper Barry D'oust and played against Goodwin for at least a year or two. I hated Nottingham for knocking us out of the playoffs my senior year '85-'86, but you guys were always good. The hugely talented Tom Tanner and his Henninger squad go down as my chief nemeses that I can remember, though. There was almost no stopping him and Tony Epifani.

And my old coach Oscar's still coaching Ludden! The ageless wonder.

We need to get a room. For now, however, I'm off to find a way to nominate your wife for canonization immediately.

 

[Ghost]

Thx...I agree with you that pool table quality matters more...

My wife actually thinks the Syracuse stuff along the sides is too much for the pool table so we are looking at getting a pool table design that she likes but putting the SU logo felt on top...

Life is about compromises...

Definitely not too much, but I like that idea. Get a good quality pool table, and then get the felt with the logo.

Are you using these balls:

 

[suttree]

Definitely not too much, but I like that idea. Get a good quality pool table, and then get the felt with the logo.

Are you using these balls:

As a Nottingham guy, he has no balls.

 

[Shark58]

As a Nottingham guy, he has no balls.

that made an FM guy chuckle

 

[Forza Azzurri]

Definitely not too much, but I like that idea. Get a good quality pool table, and then get the felt with the logo.

Are you using these balls:

I love 'em.

Wife nixed 'em...

 

[Cheriehoop]

You have no idea...

As an aside, I was digging all my sports stuff out of closets for my wife to show the design people and, in with all the sports stuff were all the articles from my Nottingham soccer days...a bunch of Luddenites in there...Hei Ho (Thanh Son's brother - who I played indoor with), the Feyerabends (who I got to know at SU), and some guy named Dunst or Durst (didn't remember him...think the article said he played sweeper)...I think Oscar Vergara was the coach???
You remember these people?

Oscar Vergara is director of Big Brothers/Big Sisters Program and is still the coach for Ludden's soccer team. He's been coaching there for decades.

 

[HoustonCuse]

I agree with her on the table, way to busy on the sides. A nice table with block S felt will be real classy. Also agree the pool balls are just too much. Get some nice traditional ones and it will set off your nice table much better than those ones.

 

[Forza Azzurri]

As a Nottingham guy, he has no balls.

Ouch.

Allow me to correct you:

As a married man, he has no balls.

And for being a bunch of Eunuchs, we smacked Ludden around pretty good on the pitch during my days at 'Ham...so what does that make you?

Funny story...either Oscar or his assistant coach - one of them lived around the corner from me - invited me to play in a soccer tourney with them out at Westvale - I think it was over Xmas break...it was me, Hei Ho and about 10 other Vietnamese dudes..

Lots of good teams...Vestal and some other teams from other parts of New York as well as a bunch of teams from CNY...

We didn't even have uniforms...we had white t-shirts with the numbers magic-markered on...and shorts and socks of all different colors...we looked like a bunch of refugees (which, ironically, everyone but me was...)..we came out on the field for our first game and this lily-white suburban team from I-don't-remember-where was openly snickering at us and how pathetic we looked...

Then the game started..and we kicked the out of them...something like 6-0 or 7-0...

We won the whole damn tourney and those boys were so damn excited about each of them getting a little 3 or 4 inch trophy that it even resonated with a 16 or 17 year-old (whatever age I was) self-absorbed teenager...

 

[Forza Azzurri]

You're damn right I remember these people. Lots of them. Hei Ho was one of a huge contingent of Vietnamese players who resettled in frosty Syracuse through Catholic Charities. He was good, but his brother Thanh Son was phenomenal (and just before my time). I didn't know Rich and Rob Feyerabend too well (I was a feckless frosh/soph), but I stopped in front of sweeper Barry D'oust and played against Goodwin for at least a year or two. I hated Nottingham for knocking us out of the playoffs my senior year '85-'86, but you guys were always good. The hugely talented Tom Tanner and his Henninger squad go down as my chief nemeses that I can remember, though. There was almost no stopping him and Tony Epifani.

And my old coach Oscar's still coaching Ludden! The ageless wonder.

We need to get a room. For now, however, I'm off to find a way to nominate your wife for canonization immediately.

Yeah, Tommy was just a soph and Tony was just a frosh when I was a senior...no way we beat them a couple years later...If I remember correctly, they were both All-Americans...

 

[Forza Azzurri]

I agree with her on the table, way to busy on the sides. A nice table with block S felt will be real classy. Also agree the pool balls are just too much. Get some nice traditional ones and it will set off your nice table much better than those ones.

Even if I don't agree with her, I'm not stupid enough to argue with her...

 

[Forza Azzurri]

Definitely not too much, but I like that idea. Get a good quality pool table, and then get the felt with the logo.

Are you using these balls:

You can actually get a stand-alone SU 8-ball and I'm thinking about doing that...

 

[Forza Azzurri]

Oscar Vergara is director of Big Brothers/Big Sisters Program and is still the coach for Ludden's soccer team. He's been coaching there for decades.

Well, it has been at least 30-something because I'm pretty sure he was the coach when we played back in the early eighties...

 

[Forza Azzurri]

Why get an air hockey table when you get can this:

I actually looked at that and my son would love it but we are out of room...

 

[HoustonCuse]

What are you doing for the floors? Field turf?

 

[Cheriehoop]

Well, it has been at least 30-something because I'm pretty sure he was the coach when we played back in the early eighties...

My son started defense for him (2002-2003). They made sectional finals I think almost every year. I know he played in the dome his senior year. They had an All American on varsity when my son was on JV, Vic Petrera, who played (maybe still does) for the pro Silver Knights soccer team. Quite a few kids played in college from my son's team. My son chose to play college baseball though, his favorite sport. Vergara is a character, hated if tied games were determined by penalty kicks and would walk as far away from the field he could, standing with his back turned to the field during them to protest. Matt, did he do that when you played and wonder if he still does it?

 

[suttree]

My son started defense for him (2002-2003). They made sectional finals I think almost every year. I know he played in the dome his senior year. They had an All American on varsity when my son was on JV, Vic Petrera, who played (maybe still does) for the pro Silver Knights soccer team. Quite a few kids played in college from my son's team. My son chose to play college baseball though, his favorite sport. Vergara is a character, hated if tied games were determined by penalty kicks and would walk as far away from the field he could, standing with his back turned to the field during them to protest. Matt, did he do that when you played and wonder if he still does it?

Cherie, I don't remember him turning his back on PKs, but I think that only happened to us maybe once each year, and probably less. What I remember most was hearing him yell at each of us in turn, in his delightful Colombian accent, that his grandmother could do better than us. Can still hear it in my head. Loved that guy. Fiery passion all the way.

 

[Cheriehoop]

Cherie, I don't remember him turning his back on PKs, but I think that only happened to us maybe once each year, and probably less. What I remember most was hearing him yell at each of us in turn, in his delightful Colombian accent, that his grandmother could do better than us. Can still hear it in my head. Loved that guy. Fiery passion all the way.

I distinctly remember it happening once in a game at Ludden and some parents started asking where Oscar was going as he headed quickly to the opposite goal towards the school during PK's. Someone said - he hates them, refuses to even watch or recognize them because he believes it's an embarrassment for the game to determine a winner that way. Funny I can't remember if they "won" or "lost" but I do remember that.

 

[Forza Azzurri]

I distinctly remember it happening once in a game at Ludden and some parents started asking where Oscar was going as he headed quickly to the opposite goal towards the school during PK's. Someone said - he hates them, refuses to even watch or recognize them because he believes it's an embarrassment for the game to determine a winner that way. Funny I can't remember if they "won" or "lost" but I do remember that.

Actually, there is a very good reason why Suttree doesn't remember this...

Back in the stone ages, when Suttree and I played, deadlocked games were not decided by PKs.

They were decided by shootouts were each player started with the ball at some distance (which I do not remember - probably around 40 or 50 yards) from goal and had something like five seconds in which to score. The player could not stop and could not go backwards with the ball. If the goalie touched the ball and it did not wind up in the back of the net after the touch, the ball was dead...

Another good reason why Suttree does not remember this is that Oscar probably never, ever let him advance past the halfway line so the opponent's goal area would simply have been a mirage on the horizon to him...

 

[Forza Azzurri]

What are you doing for the floors? Field turf?

I would do something like this in a heartbeat but there is no way my wife would go for it...