The Beer Pong Playlist
Beer pong is an utterly ridiculous party game. And yet it’s not nearly as ridiculous as, say, a 39-year-old man falling in love with said party game. We didn’t have beer pong when I was at Syracuse University. Beer bong? Absolutely. Beer pong? Not so much. I wish I could explain to the uninitiated that beer pong is actually a complex battle of wits between like-minded intellects on a chess-ian battlefield. Or, at the very least, it was played with paddles. But it’s basically just tossing ping-pong balls in plastic cups. And then drinking beer. And then trash-talking your neighbor Chuck. It’s kind of like Lilliputian basketball...if Jonathan Swift were jacked on Schlitz. Set up 10 cups in a triangular formation at both ends of a long table. Fill each cup with two swallows of beverage. Teams alternate trying to throw ping-pong balls in opponents’ cups. If a ball goes in one of yours, you drink up and set the cup to the side. If it goes in one of theirs, they drink, etc. The losers (ahem, relatively) are the ones with no cups left; however, they must then drink the victors’ remaining cups. Get it? Like I said, not exactly Stratego. But man, it’s awesome. The other night when my team won, we celebrated like teary Olympians — then trash-talked Chuck. If you’re 39 and looking for a great way to launch a midlife crisis, have at it! And as you do, here’s a sudsy playlist to go with:
Beer Run, Garth Brooks & George Jones
In Heaven There Is No Beer, Frankie Yankovic
Beer Barrel Polka, the Andrews Sisters
Beercan, Beck
Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers, ZZ Top
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, George Thorogood
I Like Beer, Tom T. Hall
There’s a Tear in My Beer, Hank Williams
The Beerhunter, Bob & Doug McKenzie
It Was a Very Good Beer, Homer Simpson
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