I’m watchin’ Gameday and they show an ad where the guys are playing a bean-bag toss game where the object seems to be getting the bean-bag in Corso’s mouth, and then they put up the “Corso’s Cornhole Challenge” graphic.
I got news for you, ESPN. That ain’t the cornhole! 
The web address they put up ain’t no good, so I don’t know if this is a real thing or not. Made me laugh my ass off, however.
Its too early for this kinda shit…
That game is called “cornhole” in southwest Ohio, where I presume it originated. When I moved to Cincinnati several years ago and read a newspaper article joking that the Olympics needed a cornhole event, I was a little taken aback.
The small-town festival in a nearby village offered a Cornhole Tournament the first few years we lived out here. In recent years they’ve changed it to bean-bag tourney, so even Midwestern farmer types are hip to the snigger factor. I assume Gameday knows what kind of reaction to expect and is actually seeking it out.
I guess I fell right into the…
well, you know.
If you think about the origin of the Olympics…
It’s called bags in Chicago, but cornhole around DC and in rural Illinois.
I’ve known folks that have filled the bags with dried corn, maybe that has some relevence. “Corn Bags” lacks the gravitas of “Cornhole”.
When I first arrived at Indiana University, a bunch of guys asked me if I wanted to play a game of cornhole. I backed slowly away.
It’s called Cornhole in Alabama, too. (Which is where Gameday was today.) I hadn’t really heard of it until a few years ago. Some sports bars, etc. advertise that they have Cornhole that you can play. I think there was a Cornhole tournament in town a few months ago.
It’s also called “Cornhole” in Cleveland and in western PA. The content of the bags (dried corn rather than beans) is in fact the origin of the name.
Hoosier cornhole buddies?
Last summer I was peacefully commuting to my job on an Air Force base in California. heading down the main drag past a big outdoor LED bulletin board where they post upcoming events.
In big bold letters, here is what I read:
Fun For The Whole Family
Everybody Come On Down to the
EXTREME CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT
Prizes Awarded!..
I and carpool buddy spent the rest of the trip in an extreme state of WTF and laughing ourselves sick.
I was sure somebody had played an outrageous practical joke, till I talked to a cow-orker from the Dakotas who 'splained what the word meant back in the Heartland.
In New England, that game doesn’t have a name AFAIK, but “cornhole” is NOT what we call it. (I think of Beavis and Butthead when I hear the word)
“Everybody’s bike riding and cornholing except Buster!”
When my wife took me to Eastern Kentucky to meet some of her relatives, they asked me if I wanted to go out back for some corn hole. I politely declined. Later I found out that corn hole was just their term for anal rape*.
*Not really, but the first sentence is true.