Is this for real?

[warthog-driver]

An earlier thread talked about how to get MU "Cornhole Products" This cannot be real. I didn't dare click on the "Closer Look" link...


Our main objective here at derricksmash.com is to provide America's cornhole players with hand-made, quality cornhole products.


http://www.chicagolandcornhole.com/

http://www.chicagocornholerental.com/

[Tribby]

Unless this is a sophomoric joke about the word cornhole, I'm not sure I understand the point of this thread.

If it is a sophomoric joke about the word cornhole... well, it stopped being funny in like 2004.

[Skatastrophy]

Unless this is a sophomoric joke about the word cornhole, I'm not sure I understand the point of this thread.

If it is a sophomoric joke about the word cornhole... well, it stopped being funny in like 2004.

+1

Cornhole is a well known game at this point.

If you're legitimately asking if you can get a well-built custom made MU cornhole set?  Then yes, you can but it won't be cheap!

[Blackhat]

+1

Cornhole is a well known game at this point.

If you're legitimately asking if you can get a well-built custom made MU cornhole set?  Then yes, you can but it won't be cheap!

Built my own a couple years back, if anyone needs to know where to get big MU decals I can help out.   Gives a man satisfaction to create things, similar to taking a huge dump.

[Skitch]

Maybe it was a sophomoric joke but maybe not. It looks like I'm in the severe minority but I had never heard of cornhole being a bean bag game.

[brewcity77]

Maybe it was a sophomoric joke but maybe not. It looks like I'm in the severe minority but I had never heard of cornhole being a bean bag game.

It's pretty common in the Midwest. I think it serving as a joke only really works to people who are still laughing at old Beavis and Butthead clips. 

[ringout]

Maybe it was a sophomoric joke but maybe not. It looks like I'm in the severe minority but I had never heard of cornhole being a bean bag game.

God you're OLD.

jk.  didn't know it was called cornhole until my 19 yr old daughter told me last year.

[warthog-driver]

Unless this is a sophomoric joke about the word cornhole, I'm not sure I understand the point of this thread.

If it is a sophomoric joke about the word cornhole... well, it stopped being funny in like 2004.

I am truly astounded that this is an activity for adults and that it is actually called "Cornhole." A Bean Bag Game for adults is what is sophomoric. If you think for one second the originators of the "sport" "Cornhole" did not know it was a play on words then you are an idiot.

[brewcity77]

I am truly astounded that this is an activity for adults and that it is actually called "Cornhole." A Bean Bag Game for adults is what is sophomoric. If you think for one second the originators of the "sport" "Cornhole" did not know it was a play on words then you are an idiot.

Really? That's the reaction? It's a summer party game. It's like badminton, horseshoes, or any number of summer activities that people partake in. It's easy to transport to a stadium and is commonly seen at tailgating.

As far as the phrase, it's a chicken-or-the-egg argument. The game has been around in Ohio for decades, the term "cornholing" in how you are referring to it also came from that area. If I had to guess, I'd say the game's name existed first (named for the corn-feed filled bags going into the hole on the board) and became a slang for other things going into a hole. But really, do you care that much? And are you so offended by something that has become a fairly common term in the summertime Midwest vernacular that you take such offense?

[Chili]

I am truly astounded that this is an activity for adults and that it is actually called "Cornhole." A Bean Bag Game for adults is what is sophomoric. If you think for one second the originators of the "sport" "Cornhole" did not know it was a play on words then you are an idiot.

So the original game where corn filled bags are tossed at a board with holes in them with the object to try and get said corn filled bags to fall into a hole should not have a name such as "cornhole"? Seems quite fitting to me...getting corn filled bags in a hole....just saying.

[warthog-driver]

It's a summer party game. It's like badminton, horseshoes, or any number of summer activities that people partake in.

I don't consider badminton, horseshoes, bean bag, parchesi, tiddly winks or any other such game to be much fun so I avoid them. You obviously find them fun, though.

[mviale]

Great game - played this on the east coast.  Is there a Marquette Warriors Cornhole set?

[Sir Lawrence]

Any summer game with world rankings is "for real."

http://kingofcornhole.com/aco-tour/worldrankings/

And, a governing body:

http://www.americancornhole.org/

Sorry to admit I've spent many a summer hour tossing the bag.

[brewcity77]

I don't consider badminton, horseshoes, bean bag, parchesi, tiddly winks or any other such game to be much fun so I avoid them. You obviously find them fun, though.

Uhh...okay. If that makes you feel better.

[HouWarrior]

I don't consider badminton, horseshoes, bean bag, parchesi, tiddly winks or any other such game to be much fun so I avoid them. You obviously find them fun, though.

Well, I guess I wont invite you to play any of these games at my parties.

As the original purpose of your thread got tagged as sophomoric humor (which it was),  one would guess you also could let your hair down, and enjoy some of these sophomoric party games.

If intent on still avoiding them, at least Google and learn about cornhole...I hadnt heard the term either, but I cant join in your presumptions over its name origin, that those not agreeing with your theory on its name, are idiots, or even that this game is  sophomoric(BTW, so what if it is!!!).
...would you have tried to shame those sophomoric/idiots in Scotland over that silly game of hitting a featherball down a pasture, into a hole, and calling it Gof?

Here is the Wiki Cornhole link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornhole  noting, as to its history,....

"...The history of the game is mostly unknown,[4] though stories abound. One story claims that the game was first played during the 14th century in Germany, then rediscovered in Ohio within the last century.[4] Many American scholars confirm that a game of very similar nature was played amongst Native Americans in Midwest America, who filled pigs' bladders with dried beans and competitively tossed them for entertainment, notably, the Blackhawk tribe in Illinois. Despite debate about whether the game was actually created in the Kentucky farmland, Champaign, IL or the West Side of Cincinnati,[5] some sources credit the invention to western Cincinnati,[6] but by whom or when is unknown. Popularity of the game began to increase in the late 1990s in Cincinnati, OH and East Lansing, MI area universities, particularly Miami University where cornhole became a mainstay at parties and as a casual drinking game. Helped along by the advent of commercial cornhole bags and boards under the trademark Baggo, cornhole is now a popular game in the Midwestern and Southern United States, especially in college towns.

The origin of Cornhole took place on Cincinnati's west-side during the 1950s. It is here where the game of Cornhole defined itself through traditions, materials, and rules.[7]...."

[MUCam]

I don't consider badminton, horseshoes, bean bag, parchesi, tiddly winks or any other such game to be much fun so I avoid them. You obviously find them fun, though.

EDIT - Nevermind. I thought better of it. Feel free to delete.

[Skitch]

It's pretty common in the Midwest. I think it serving as a joke only really works to people who are still laughing at old Beavis and Butthead clips. 

I actually have played beanbags for quite a few years but we have a much more clever name for the game....beanbags.

[warrior_rugby15]

on the south side chicago we just call it "Bags"

[akmarq]

I don't consider badminton, horseshoes, bean bag, parchesi, tiddly winks or any other such game to be much fun so I avoid them. You obviously find them fun, though.

Rainbows, puppies and cuddly things suck too. Fighter jets and contact sports, those are the only things for Warthog.