I'm thinking that Tulsa should have a Cornhole Tournament (aka: bean bag toss). This is something that's played in Chicago a lot (along with mush ball and other oddities). Think of it as golf for the blue-collar crowd. (The object is to toss bean bags from a distance of about 30' into a small hole in a plywood box.) It's a good sport for drinking beer, b/c you don't have to run around...And it's a good sport for Tulsa b/c you don't have to be in shape. You just need to be able to fling a bean bag with some accuracy.
I'm thinking that various bars in town could sponsor teams... or just host tournaments at the bars themselves.
http://www.americancornhole.org/
http://www.playcornhole.org/rules.shtml
I'm afraid the term has sexual connotations for me. Am I just too old or what?
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Originally posted by waterboy
I'm afraid the term has sexual connotations for me. Am I just too old or what?
No..I pondered posting a reply about me giggling a little when I saw that PI was serious. I've never heard of such a sport.
All I can think of now is Diedrich Bader in 'Office Space' telling Ron Livingston's character to 'watch out for his cornhole'...
I think horseshoes can accomplish the same thing with the beer-drinking.
For real fun, try the same sport, but instead with toilet seats.
That just sounds....well....wrong. Where would they do this? Renegades?
In Chicago they play it at local bars and, uh, Soldier Field...
I guess it is sort of like horseshoes...without the danger of killing someone with a drunken throw.
No gay guy would call a sport "cornhole." Only straight guys would come up with a name that obnoxious. But I do know some lesbians who are really good at it. They call it "Bags."
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Originally posted by PonderInc
No gay guy would call a sport "cornhole."
No one who wants to promote a sport would call it "cornhole," either.
In addition to the above problems, you also have this image:
(http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/blahdocs/uploads/copy_of_db_beavis_cornholio1_7144.gif)
I would advise calling it something else.
You should definitely hold and make sure to advertise the 'cornhole tournament' at Turkey Mountain, I'm sure you'll get a nice turnout.
[}:)]
Anyone want to venture a derivation of the word? My guess is it evolved from outhouse slang. Before TP was readily available in the backwoods, people used dried corn cobs.
Dunno, but I doubt that many people would have bothered to read this thread if I called it "Bean Bag Toss..." It seems that "Cornhole" has a certain appeal to you guys after all... [;)]
Fun Bags would be alright. I could appreciate that name.
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Originally posted by waterboy
Fun Bags would be alright. I could appreciate that name.
Or "naughty pillows". That would have really brought out the chain gang.
It's a bag of dried corn you through in a hole..
If you do start a tournament, watch out for Conan, no-one can attack a cornhole like Conan.