Non-Sport/Bar Sports - Decathlon

[Aloysius]

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Are you confusing clubs(dance) with bars?

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Are you serious? The shuffleboard thing Quids explained, I've seen and played that. But I have never seen table tennis, skeeball, bowling, horse shoes, or airhockey at a bar. I grew up on the East Coast and went to plenty of bars in NYC and New Haven.

Are you perhaps confusing bars with Dave & Buster's?

-Al

[J.A.Sucker]

Good list. These Beer Olympics competitions are hella fun, man. I would sub out bowling for Golden Tee. Even though it's a video game, it's more of a sport. I know a dude who broke his thumb playing it, so it counts, even though he was Canadian.

The best way to make them competitive is continuous handicapping with alcohol as a function of the events. Shots are best for this.

BTW: Horseshoes must remain and it should be held last, kind of like the old Eliminator event from American Gladiators.

[guids]

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Are you confusing clubs(dance) with bars?

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Are you serious? The shuffleboard thing Quids explained, I've seen and played that. But I have never seen table tennis, skeeball, bowling, horse shoes, or airhockey at a bar. I grew up on the East Coast and went to plenty of bars in NYC and New Haven.

Are you perhaps confusing bars with Dave & Buster's?

-Al

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If he is including VFW halls and the like as "bars", which imo, they arent, than I can see pingpong/horseshoes/airhockey etc in the mix, otherwise, I dont see many bars with that stuff in it.


what about bubble hockey? that is most def a bar game:

[stinkypete]

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Are you confusing clubs(dance) with bars? I am from old-school-like East Coast style bars but we would go to certain joints that had such things, all the things above (except maybe bowling). All American Legion/VFW/Eagle like bars have such things are well.

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any decent bowling alley is more of a bar than a place to go bowling anyway.

[Aloysius]

Stinkypete - I agree, but that's actually referred to as a "bowling alley", not a "bar".

OP - seriously this is a real head scratcher for me:

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I am from old-school-like East Coast style bars but we would go to certain joints that had such things, all the things above (except maybe bowling).

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Granted, I haven't spent much time in Boston (where I assume you're from), but "old-school-like East Coast style bars" generally don't have ping pong tables, in my experience.

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All American Legion/VFW/Eagle like bars have such things are well.

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These are not bars.

-Al

[B00T]

good call on bubble hockey, i think its a better choice than air hockey

[El Diablo]

Al: I've been to a few bars w/ horseshoes. And plenty of bars w/ air hockey. Never seen skeeball or bowling. I've seen table tennis at pool hall + arcade type places, but never at a normal bar.

quids: Good one, I was thinking of that too but didn't suggest it because I don't really like that game.

Joe: Bocce ball probably deserves to be on there ahead of some of the other picks.

[Aloysius]

Diablo - the only games I've seen at a standard bar are darts, pool and maybe foosball. I classify "sports bars" differently in my head, but yeah def. air hockey or bubble hockey I've seen alot.

However, I don't actually think OP's criteria is "games you find in a bar". Seems like he made a snide response to me which ends up making zero sense.

-Al

[JJSCOTT2]

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Is bowling too much of a sport?


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This is my favorite part.

The fact that you have to ask this means your decathlon is going to be awesome.

[Your Mom]

Ping Pong (table tennis) is at all of the Fox and Hounds in Omaha. It certainly qualifies.