55Flash Fiction Friday

It is scary as I fly through the air
Why is this happening to me?
I have lead a good life
yet now I head to my certain death.

Soon I will crash land
despite anything that I can do
I just hope my seams do not split
Oh the life of a cornhole bag.

Well a couple of weeks ago I ordered some cornhole bags from


You can find Steph's Bags here.

You can follow this link to a prior post of mine about cornhole or let me real quickly explain cornhole. You either play with 2 or 4 people. You toss a bag and your opponent tosses one, then you, then them, etc until you have tossed all 8 bags. You are tossing the bags about 30 feet to a board that has a hole in it. You want the bag to go through the hole. Short of that you want the bag to land on the board. Through the hole is worth 3 points, on the board is worth 1 point. First one to 21 wins. Now this is abbreviated and I did leave a little out but hopefully that helps the above 55 make a little more sense.

Yesterday the bags showed up. I sure wish I could use them but I am just beginning to make my boards. Hopefully I will have at least one set built this weekend if not both sets.

Now there is something special about the bags I ordered. Besides being built well with quality material, besides the way the people I ordered them from have treated this order, besides all that these stand out. My bags are split color. The top is a different color than the bottom. Look below for a picture of said bags.

Here are my University of Michigan /
Ohio State University cornhole bags

These are my Michigan State University /
Detroit Red Wings cornhole bags

So why did I do it beside being different and standing out. Well here is the story.

Since I grew up in South Eastern Michigan I have always been a University of Michigan fan. So it was a natural to want to build a set of boards that have U of M logo on them. More recently however I have been rooting for Michigan State University. So, OK ... if I am making two sets, that can work out.

But I also love the Detroit Red Wings and I am sorry, I just do not intend to have three sets. Two I can justify a few times a year even though storing is a pain but three is silly. Oh and also lately I have decided that what I love about U of M is their football program and I am sorry, even though I am not a fan of Ohio State, what would either program be without each other. They kind of make each other a better team. Ever year I root for U of M to beat Ohio State. But ever other game of the year I root for Ohio State to win, just like I root for U of M. It just makes that final game at the end of the season so much more exciting. So now I want an Ohio State board too. Four sets, no way, not going to happen.

So, here is what I decided to do. Why not build one set consisting of 2 boards. One is U of M, one of Ohio State. And then the second set would be contain a Michigan State board and Detroit Red Wings board. Now that is a strange combination. So now, what about the cornhole bags?

Normally a set of bags include 4 of one color, like blue and 4 of another color, like yellow (or maze for you U of M fans). Well this just would not do. So what I did is look around to find someone that would build the bags only in two colors. That way I could have four bags that are blue on top and yellow on the bottom for the U of M board, red on top and grey on the bottom for Ohio State board, green on top and white on the bottom for the Michigan State board, and finally red on one side and white on the other for the Detroit Red Wings board.

Let me tell you I love the way Stephanie put the bags together. They look and feel real sound. I love that, despite not being the cheapest bags around, they did not cost extra for the split color bags. And I just love that she would do it period as I had not found anyone else that would do this. We will see how these suckers do as I intend to put together a small tournament on the Saturday before Labor Day when a whole group (30 to 50 people) of us are going camping.