Time for a Tulsa Cornhole Tournament?

[PonderInc]

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

[waterboy]

I'm afraid the term has sexual connotations for me. Am I just too old or what?

[Hoss]

quote: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'...

[rwarn17588]

I think horseshoes can accomplish the same thing with the beer-drinking.

For real fun, try the same sport, but instead with toilet seats.

[Conan71]

That just sounds....well....wrong.  Where would they do this?  Renegades?

[PonderInc]

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."

[rwarn17588]

quote: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:



I would advise calling it something else.

[grahambino]

You should definitely hold and make sure to advertise the 'cornhole tournament' at Turkey Mountain, I'm sure you'll get a nice turnout.  
[}:)]

[waterboy]

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.

[PonderInc]

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... []

[waterboy]

Fun Bags would be alright. I could appreciate that name.

[Conan71]

quote: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.

[sgrizzle]

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.