Cornhole Tournament Comes to Soldier Field

It's been my experience that the only thing more popular in Cincinnati than playing cornhole is going to Kentucky for the night life. For the uninitiated cornhole is an intensely complicated game where you toss bean bags into holes. It's impossible to go to any sporting event in the Midwest or the South and not find people playing. For a day at least cornhole took over Chicago's Soldier Field.

Cue the Pulitzer winning Chicago Tribune, "With a soft thump, Guy's bag dropped through a small hole in the ramp, dragging another yellow bag down with it for a double score."

And the Tribune managed to pin down cornhole enthusiasts as they waxed eloquent on the game. "'It's the sound of summer to me," said Ed O'Sullivan of Mundelein, who closely watched the player he called 'the Tiger Woods of bags' with an awed respect." More? "You’ve got your beer in one hand and your bag in the other—that’s what it’s all about,” said Danny Quiros, 30, of Forest Park.

Yep, Cornhole owes its popularity to the fact that it's impossible to say anything without a double entendre ensuing.

Tossers of all stripes battle in Soldier Field [Chicago Tribune]

Chicago's Soldier Field Host to Cornhole Classic [SportsbyBrooks]