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Community Service

We all know that cornhole's a pretty lo-fi game.  As the saying goes, it's "analog in a digital world".  Well, that's slowly changing.  Just by reading this blog, you're helping to bring the sport kicking and screaming into the 21st century (that sounds pretty futuristic, huh?).  Now it's time to do a little community-building.  In addition to the blog, you can catch up with us online now at Facebook and Myspace! 

Why more sites to visit?  Because while you'll still be getting your weekly dose of humor and cornhole news here at Cornholeblog.com, the Myspace and Facebook pages will give you opportunity to help create a community where people get to discuss games, techniques, where to buy the best supplies, and keep everyone informed about tournaments, formal and informal.  Got something to share?  Photos you've taken from backyard matches?  The Cornhole.com / Cornholeblog.com Myspace and Facebook pages let you do this with ease.  Some people are Myspace fans and some are Facebook supporters, which is why we've set up both for you.  I prefer Pepsi while others dig Coke.  Go figure.

So get the word out and click on over to one of these new pages and let's get the fun started!

Cornhole Players - God Bless 'Em

Each week, I make the rounds on the Web, looking for some cornhole-related nugget of humor to share with you all.  Some weeks are easier than others.  Someone made a video, there's a movie coming out, maybe a mention in a song.  However, for all of the anecdotal chuckles here and there, it's nice to find insight in a decent conversation about cornhole.  It doesn't matter if your grammar's correct, or even if you can spell.  Just as long as you love the game of cornhole as much as we do. 

So in the spirit of "keeping it real" this week, here are some excerpts from a recent cornhole discussion in an online forum.  No kidding.  The topic: Who Is the Best Cornhole Players in Kentucky?  [note: no spelling errors were harmed in the reprinting of these statements]

"The ford boys are great, and doug darnell from russellsprings, all are great player!! and buck tayler is ok sometimes!! lol !!!"

"Mike Cowen is by far the best cornhole player I have ever seen he puts the perfect spin and arch on it every time I once saw him throw 32 straight cornholes."

"Corey helm and tyler curry beats alot of people i have heard they are really good"

"Russ Little is the best cash game cornholer in Louisville."

There you have it, folks.  Real cornhole talk from real cornhole players.  Salt-of-the-earth types.  I'm not making fun, but it did make me smile.  I can tell you one thing I've learned from this experience.  If I ever bust a flat or turn off a random exit on the highway and find myself in a place where they wager on a good cornhole game, I'm betting the house on Russ Little or Mike Cowen if I hear their names.  Wait - what do I do if they're playing against each other?

Let It Snow

If you haven't heard about all of the snow that hit the great state of Ohio this past week, you were probably buried underneath it.  As the days pass, we all know that the once-lovely and beautiful snow changes, mixing in with the muck and the grime to become that gray stuff you have to waddle through on the way to the car.  As you shovel the inches, fun (in the form of cornhole) seems to be so far away, an idea in another galaxy.

Hang in there.

Not just Ohio, but all of the states in the Union that are actually experiencing Winter.  It's got to get better soon.  In the meantime, instead of spending the weekend afternoons waiting for the onset of cabin fever, why not start brainstorming to come up with ways to enjoy the game even more, once the weather improves?  Here, I'll get you started.

Every winter, we see snowmen dotting lawns in the neighborhood.  Why not give Frosty a break and carve out a proper cornhole set?  If anyone has done this, please send photos.

If they cared, researchers might conduct a study that could possibly say that boxing may slowly be getting replaced by cornhole as one of America's favorite sports you can play without much gear and still have a good time.  So, as boxing slowly succumbs to the unstoppable growth of cornhole, what will happen to the young ladies who announce each round?  You guessed right - Cornhole Ring Girls.  It allows the great tradition of watching bikini-clad young ladies hold a card with a number on it over their heads.  Why should they lose work because we in the cornhole community wouldn't bring them in out of the cold?

They shouldn't. 

Top THAT idea.  I dare you!

This Ain't Your Father's Cornhole

Greetings, all.  Sometimes, it can be a little difficult to find blog-worthy Cornhole news, especially when it's cold in the Midwest.  "Oh, the weather outside is frightful," as the song says.  Apparently, bringing the game out of the cold and into our warm homes has been a priority for the guys over at Buddy Media.  They've designed a Cornhole app for the Facebook users of the world (the tens and tens of millions of you)! 

The interface is pretty clean, the backdrop is a parking lot.  There's a soundtrack loop playing that's reminiscent of when the Rolling Stones thought they were God's gift to honky-tonk music (which is a good thing).  The controls are mouse-based and pretty easy to get a handle on.  We've got the angle of the throw, the wind gauge, and, of course, the John Madden/Tiger Woods Golf-style 3-click power meter.  I just spent the last half hour playing the thing and I'm headed right back to it after I'm done with this post. 

Don't fret, true believers.  March will go out like a lamb and next thing you know, it'll be (outdoor) Cornhole season!  To those that are playing in warmer climes year-round, God bless ya.  You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone (I think that's another song).