It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the passing of an amazing friend and fierce foosball competitor. Scott "Bear" Jensen passed away on Sunday, March 26th. Details on services will follow. Please keep his family in your thoughts, hearts and prayers. Please be respectful of the family's need for privacy at this difficult time. I will post follow up information as it becomes available.

RIP brother

Sad news. Bear gave me some great tips early on. Then at my first major my buddy and I had to play Bear and City first round in rookie doubles when they were a top seed favorite for the event. Ask city about the match and crowd.

RIP Scott.

This is terrible! Had many of great battles with Bear on the table. Condolences to the family and friends. RIP Bear

This is heartbreaking news. My prayers and condolences go out to Bear's family and friends.

I was lucky to win a semi pro title with Bear in Tulsa and he was one of the best teammates a player could ever want to compete with. I know many of you that have won titles and/or simply partnered with Bear would agree.

Bear was a 'model fooser' if there could ever be such a thing. All focus, no drama, no cheating, all respect, fun/friendly, a student and generous teacher of the game and always gracious in victory or defeat. Always improving and never regressing.

Nobody wanted to play against Bear in a bracket, nobody. He was too solid and if you did draw him you better execute in the 90-100% range because you know he would be as well.

As a rookie Bear would push the best players such as Tom Spear to his limits and even grabbed a big win off Tom ever so often. Shortly thereafter Bear was seen playing goalie for Tom at the BYP (imagine that, no surprise). As Bear progressed he just asserted himself as one of the Top players in CO at the time.

Bear was always so efficient on another level. Great guy to be around. RIP Bear you're the man and you'll be greatly missed by everyone.

Edited by user Thursday, March 30, 2017 12:58:38 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Great posts Leo and Greg.

I am sick to my stomach still over this news.

I met Bear at the Breakroom, and for the longest time, he was all goalie, and shot an open handed push. His forward game sucked, so he just sat back in goal slapping at the ball with his push...and started to master the defensive principles to shut people down.

Eventually, he decided to study the forward position...and still kept with the push...but finally switched to the roller. He practiced and studied the game like any obsessed fooser who knows there's a right and wrong way to winning. In no time it all, it seemed like he was dominating rooks, and then semis, and soon keeping up with the pros and masters. His defense was always formidable, so he was always getting tons of extra posessions, which he used to develop a really nasty 5 bar series. He was a force as a forward and goalie, and a great competitor and good sport.

I never really knew why he stopped playing.

It's always tough to hear about a member of the foos family going away....but this one really hits close to home for a lot of us because he was such a staple of Denver foos for years.

This sucks.

....Ohhh ..... for all you young folk .....
Blues = Breakroom
(it was "Blues Tavern" before it was called the "Breakroom")
I'm just dating myself ! (it was Blues a long time ago )
(I think it was already called the Breakroom when Scott arrived on the foos scene )

Greg

I was driving down Jewell once and out of the corner of my eye saw a blue jacket with beige arms, and was like "man, that sure looks like World's Jacket!" and sure enough it was Bear! lol