By: Billy BeerSlugger
I recently spent the better part of a week in the Pocono’s with 11 friends to prepare for and draft my Fantasy Football squad (and get super wasted). My league has been renting out a house now since 2005 and is far and away the best way to draft your team. Well really it’s just good to get your friends and yourself away from your girlfriends/wives for a weekend and have some good old unadulterated fun.
We have had 5 houses and this one was by far the best. Not because it was nicer, not because it was closer to the golf course but because it had a shuffleboard table! I cannot even begin to describe to you how dominant this game is. No wonder old people love shuffleboard. It is easily the best social drinking skill game out there. Better than Darts, better than Billiards, better than (dare I say) Foosball. It requires no athletic ability and you can play for as long as you can stand upright.
The intricacies of the game are many. Besides sliding a disc like object down the runway and having it sit in a scoring area, there are many things you need to take into account. Playing defense would consist of knocking your opponents disc off of a scoring area and hopefully landing in a scoring area yourself. Defense can also be played by positioning a disc in front of another disc that you placed in a scoring area so as to obstruct it from your opponents attempts at knocking it off the board.
I was up money, I was down money but overall I had a great time and the tournaments we had got really intense. A member of my FF league, and avid BeerSlugger.com reader, went to West Chester University and is a veteran of shuffleboard due to his tenure as a drunkard at Jake’s Bar. This is the only bar I have run across that carries a Shuffleboard table or “Quades” as it is the nomenclature in West Chester.
Overall, a completely dominant game and something you BeerSlugger’s out there should be looking to play.