TV sets sights on ruining cornhole
If you love sports, there was good news and bad news last week.
The good news was cornhole dominated TV ratings.
The bad news was cornhole dominated TV ratings.
To which many of you are probably thinking, “What is cornhole and does the FCC even allow the word to be said on TV?”
Cornhole is a game in which beanbags are tossed at an inclined wooden platform with a hole at the end. You’ve probably seen it a million times at tailgate parties but never realized how popular it is.
We found out last week when the “Championship of Bags” tournament on ESPN2 got a larger audience among 18-to-49-year-olds than Major League Baseball, the Tour de France and the WNBA All-Star Game.
The danger now is that some network will get really interested in cornhole. TV is not the root of all evil, but the money it brings can sure mess things up.
Just look at our major sports. Players used to make $18,000 a year and have no labor rights.
Along came TV deals, and they could suddenly afford lawyers. Before you knew it, sports turned into Big Business.
of Crab Orchard, Ky., took home $5,000 for winning last week’s tournament. Wait until the American Cornhole Organization negotiates its next TV contract.
“We’re more popular than America’s pastime, France’s pastime and whatever country considers the WNBA its pastime. Show us the money!”
Before long, Langworthy could be driving a Bentley, staging a free-agent bidding war and announcing he’s taking his talents to Paducah. And just wait until the New England Cornholers are caught deflating their beanbags.
Now that training camps are opening, we can only hope the networks get so wrapped up in football they forget about the game being played outside the stadiums.
We’ve seen what happens when sports go big-time. The last thing fans need is for beanbag tossers to fall into that hole. COMMENTARY for a few hours Thursday with a shade over $91 billion in his wallet.
Then a dip in Amazon stock cost Bezos $1.8 billion, and regained the top spot.
The rest of the top 10 was rounded out by
five NBA free agents and two Ole Miss recruits.
and the Discovery Channel for their bogus “Great Gold vs. Great White” special.
I didn’t expect Phelps to get in a lane next to a 20-foot shark.
But since he “raced” a computer-generated shark, producers could have at least had the fake fish try to take a bite out of the competition.
No. 2: You show up at training camp in a chauffeur-driven 1931 Rolls-Royce convertible. Nice touch,
No. 1: You go jet-skiing, hit a wave and a $100,000 diamond earring pops out of your ear and sinks to the bottom of Lake Lanier in Georgia. Doesn’t Atlanta receiver
know that diamonds can’t swim?
He hired a dive team to try to find his jewelry. Divers failed to locate the earring, but they did find an old Mountain Dew bottle and a few shattered pieces of
career. Kudos to
for winning four gold medals at last week’s FINA World Championships. None of them was against computer-generated competition.
In related news, Russia has granted citizenship to the great white shark that beat The shark is expected to compete in the 2020 Summer Olympics if it passes Russia’s stringent drug-masking program.
After losing $1.8 billion in one afternoon, did
cancel his dinner reservations and tell his wife to just heat up some leftovers? Jacksonville coach told Jags.com how he’d ideally like to use
“I’d like to run the ball every play,” Marrone said.
So Bortles’ weekly line will read 0 for 0 passing for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns. My guess is Marrone has no faith in his QB or he’s trying to get Bortles cheap in the NFL coaches’ fantasy league.
The Elias Sports Bureau reports that no cornhole player has ever lost a $100,000 earring while jet-skiing.
Programming update: For its next special, the Discovery Channel has announced that will try to outrun a computer-generated Brazilian policeman.
The Magic have hired a dive team to try to find