Please enlighten me how corn hole is a televised and sponsored sport.

[GON]

Having dinner in a Madison, Wi bar, killing time before a flight to El Paso, TX tomorrow l. I look up and see something I had no idea was a sport.

I see corn hole on the television, and the players have sponsors.

Another example of how one can make it big with so little in the U.S. Will beer pong be next?

I wasn't able to capture on camera the winner of the match being interviewed by a very fashionable female sportscaster on the hard fought and strategic win by the winning player.

 

[Hermann]

Corn hole and Pickleball, no conotations there.

Things got serious when Cardinal relief pitcher Jason Mott started the craze that took off.

 

[Carmudgeon]

Ahem…

 

[earlyre]

Now if it can make it into the Olympics!
They attempted to get bowling in back in the 90's

 

[Rand]

Pillowfighting...

 

[ctechbob]

It is written into the cornhole rules that you have to down a 12 pack of beer before, and get in a fight with people from the opposing team.

Least, that's how most of it is played down here in the south. Dang hard to hit that little hole with a beanbag after that!

 

[MrHorspwer]

Televised poker is when I checked out.

 

[walterjay]

Apparently many people like it. On my recent cruise people were always playing it.

 

[Pew]

Can't be worse than watching Olympic curling.

 

[GON]

Apparently many people like it. On my recent cruise people were always playing it.

Guess I have a lot to learn. I had no idea corn hole would be a nationwide prime time broadcast on ESPN.

 

[GSCJR]

Who's the guy in red pillow fighting? Patrick Dempsey?

 

[earlyre]

And it's only ESPN2..
not even "the Ocho"!

OMG.... It's a real thing....I was only familiar with it as a joke in the Dodgeball movie
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN8_The_Ocho

 

[Pablo]

Please do not include pickleball as a joke sport.

Thanks.

 

[Warstud]

Can't be worse than watching Olympic curling.

 

[GON]

Please do not include pickleball as a joke sport.

Thanks.

 

[NormanBuntz]

You must have missed the dog jumping event on ESPN a couple weeks ago. One class winner was a Corgi who jumped 9 feet before grabbing the baton hanging above the swimming pool. The big winner was a Whippet who jumped 29 feet for the win in its class.

 

[c502cid]

Hobbyhorse. nuff said.

 

[ripcord]

Because it's there and cinema majors need something to keep busy with. There was also a recent big lull in shooting and production work during the recent screen writers strike so I bet there was a lot of this kind of thing being done the past year.

 

[Hall]

I won't watch but just flipping through channels, I've ran across "sports" and never would have thought it was big enough to warrant broadcast.

- Dogs and frisbee-catching
- Axe and knife throwing
- Air guitar
- Foosball

 

[eljefino]

"I like when they combine two sports, you know, like a guy will run 100 yards and then.... fish." -- Norm MacDonald