As a kid, I played a lot of ping pong, usually in the basement of a friend's home or in a cluttered garage. The sport seemed to fizzle over time until a new interest in ping pong emerged when Tom Hanks became a world table tennis champion in the movie, Forest Gump. Now, Anheuser-Bush has plans for taking this sport out of the basement and are putting it where it belongs - in bars across America.
That's right, the brewer has placed 4,600 ping pong tables in local taverns across the country. The Bud Light Hard Bat Ping Pong Tournament may be coming to a bar near you. It's the nostalgia factor their marketers feel that could bring this sport to be the next Texas Hold 'Em. With a cash prize of $100,ooo, no doubt, there will be some interesting play during the national finals that will take place in Las Vegas in late June.
So, dust off your paddles, grab your balls and head down to your local pub to register for one of the regional tournaments. Oh, and while you're there, don't forget to order up a Busch. Who knows, you could very well be the next table tennis champion of the world.
This is great news! My husband and his brother and friends get together every saturday night and play in B-I-L garage. It would be so much fun for them to play drunk with other drunk men they don't know. I hope we get one in our local bar
ReplyDeleteI haven't played ping pong in forever. It's about time some new games were introduced to the bars, though. One can only play so much darts.
ReplyDeleteI have used my ping pong table in the basement for everything BUT playing ping pong - as a table for painting large things, a place to layout quilts, a workshop table. Maybe I should clean it off, put up the net, and see if I still have a winning game?
ReplyDeleteI think more women should get involved.
ReplyDeleteNo paddles.
Ahem.
If you give me beer and paddles, the last thing I'm going to do is play ping pong. Wassup laydeez?
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like someone has been watching "Balls of Fury" too many times. :)
ReplyDeleteChristopher Walken: "Let's play ping pong. or as the Chinese say... ping pong."
Always good for a laugh, ping pong is. Nice to see it make a comeback.
ReplyDeleteI heart ping pong. I this promo makes it up to Canada. Unless, of course, you have to drink Bud Light to play.
ReplyDeleteFunny video! So does "ping pong" mean "grab your balls" in Chinese?
ReplyDeleteGreat vid, Me-Me. I used to ping pong a lot when I was in my teens. Damn good at it, too. Now I sing song.... in the shower... until the neighbors scream. Hee ho.
ReplyDeleteThat was a nice funny video
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