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The Fall of Foos

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FOOS: History of American Foosball (Table Soccer)

Director: Robert Ismert

Cast: Johnny Horton, Scott Moreland, Lee Peppard, Johnny Lott, Todd Loffredo

(Limp Lettuce, 2006) Rated: Unrated

US DVD release date: 1 August 2006

[4 June 2007]

by Tobias Peterson

PopMatters Sports Editor

Though it is an endangered spectacle in today's taverns, foosball was once king among bar games, attracting hustlers and spawning tournaments that paid out hundreds of thousands in prize winnings.

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