It started innocently enough. I was invited to one of my best friend's houses for dinner last night. His roommate would be cooking a meal of beef stew, preceded by salad and followed by chocolate cake. How could I resist?
After dinner, we would whip out the board games. Maybe there would be a potential Trivial Pursuit win in my future or I could become a Scrabble champion for the night. The possibilities were endless.
Someone, not me, suggested that we pass the time during the cooking of dinner by playing a game. It sounded like a fun way to pass an hour or two. This game would be played only with our brains. It was a sports name game. The first letter of the last name would be the first letter of the following first name. Sounds simple. The following is just a random sample. I don't remember what name started it all, but the game began at 6:30 PM.
Jason Bere
Bartolo Colon
Chad Billingsley
Britt Burns
Brooks Robinson
The only additional rules were that a name could not be repeated. It could be from any sport or sports related occupation.
Ravishing Rick Rude
Reggie Jackson
Jack McDowell
This was so successfull that we continued playing it during dinner.
Michael Vick
Vida Blue
Bobby Bonds
Bobby Thigpen
We also couldn't use names starting with I, Q, X, Y and Z, because they were too uncommon for first names.
Tiffany Cohen
Carlton Fisk
Floyd Patterson
We finished with dinner and dessert and decided to sit around the fire pit in the back yard.
Pete Rose
Roger Bossard
Bob Boone
We started the fire around 9:30PM
Barry Jones
Joe Jackson
Jerry Lawler
This would be one of the last nights where the weather would be perfect to sit out and enjoy a fire. It wasn't too hot or too cold.
Lance Armstrong
Alex Cora
Catfish Hunter
About a half hour before we decided to call it a night, there was an H to me. We had used all of the Harolds, Honuses, Herbs, Horaces and other H names we could think of. When I came up with this H name, we knew we hit the bottom of the barrel.
He Hate Me
Manny Trillo
Tara Lipinski
We went our separate ways sometime after 4:00AM. Be warned. This game is infectious.
Larry Bird
Bruce Jenner
Jeff Juden
Take extreme caution when you start this game.
John McEnroe
Mark O'Meara
Ozzie Canseco
It may never leave!
Cal Ripken
Rodney McCray
Mario Andretti
Alvin Davis
6 comments:
LOL, sounds like a great way to kill a few brain cells and an evening all in one swoop! :-)
Definitely!
we played this game in college - as a drinking game. if you were stumped, you drank. if someone threw out a double letter name (minnie minoso for example) everyone had to drink. good times.
Sounds like an interesting twist.
Awesome post! Thinking up He Hate Me was a genius move.
Dave Justice
Jeff Blauser
Bob Horner
Oh no! I've been infected!
Hank Aaron
Al Lopez
Larry Wayne Jones
Oh boy, I'm screwed...
Jimmy Johnson
Joe Crede
Chipper Jones
DAMN!!
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