Viola, Morristown High Class of ’11, is a parking lot attendant and local history buff. Photo courtesy of The Other Guys pool team. Joey Viola, left, and team Co-Captain Earl ‘Butchie’ Dixon, a.k.a. “If I could never play pool again, I wouldn’t care as long as I could hang out with these guys and be together,” says one of Ryan’s average Joes, Joey Viola. It’s also a punchline when rivals inquire if they are ringers: Initial-wise, The Other Guys reflects Tavern Off the Green. “We’re just average Joes just having fun, enjoying the ride,” Ryan insists. But that’s not really the point, according to team Captain Michael “Pugs” Ryan, a bartender at Tavern Off the Green. Victory in Vegas would be sweet all right. Doug Prendeville, Joey Viola, Michael Ryan and Tommy Kim of The Other Guys, at shrine to fallen billiards teammate Lenny Pergentile, at Tavern Off the Green. Not bad, considering some of them had hardly ever racked a set of balls, pre-COVID. To qualify, the locals won their Morris County bar league and then aced a North Jersey tournament in Clifton in June. Video promo for the APA World Pool Championships: 3-8, for 8-ball bragging rights and a $30,000 prize. The Other Guys, as these seven players call their squad, is among hundreds of amateur teams from North America and beyond that will compete from Aug. Now, in a development they scarcely can comprehend, they are bound for Las Vegas, to represent Tavern Off the Green, northern New Jersey, and beer-hall hustlers everywhere, in the 2023 American Poolplayers Association World Championships. VEGAS BOUND: The Other Guys team from Morristown will compete in the American Poolplayers Association World Championships in August 2023. Earl, decided they might have more laughs with cues than cards. Over the pandemic, these Morristown poker pals, who go by Pugs and Dough Boy and Mr. Their captain calls them the Bad News Bears of Billiards.
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