Cornhole!?

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In my youth, we called this game bean bag toss. I played many times with other schoolchildren. Occasionally, I would hear the term cornhole as I grew older, but it was so offensive in certain circles I doubted it would catch on.

Over the years, bean bag toss really caught on in colleges. To my dismay, it was widely called Cornhole. Then the tournaments started being televised. cornhole was everywhere. They’ve even begun giving scholarships…