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Not to bring up politics again, but as many as you know, former Steelers Hall of Famer Lynn Swann is running for governor of Pennsylvania. As anyone who has ever spent time in the general vicinity of the great city of Pittsburgh, part of your duties as political candidate is to play beer pong with your potential constituents.
He takes the ball without question and we walk to the table. He then says, "Just throw it in the cup?" I agree with him and give him a little advice because the wind was kicking up at this fine day. ... He makes a few arm motions warming up a bit, eyes the red cup at the other end of the table filled slightly with IC Light, takes a breath and lets it fly. The crowd that surrounded the table was at least 30 deep by now with Steeler fans cheering for him like he was back on the field again. Cameras flashing, video camera's rolling, his bodyguards and marketing team thinking about the damage this might do to his campaign and then...
SPLASH DOWN....
The crowd erupts with cheers as the ball lands inside the cup. He turns to me and gives me a high 5 before fleeing the scene and probably having his marketing team erase all video of this ever happening but it doesn't get much better than this.
Boy, do you not want to hear about our beer pong with Mark Foley that one time.
Future Governor Lynn Swann Plays Beer Pong [Mondesi's House]
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I did whippets with Ed Rendell at an Eagles tailgate once....
Where I play, that's a violation. No bounce, no booze.
Just answer me this: was his elbow over the edge of the table? Because I refuse to vote for candidates who violate that one sacred rule. Abortion, war, fuck it all... no over-the-line votes for me in November.
(No blowers, either.)
Lynn Swann is running for governor of PA?
You know, if that's the case, then Braylon Edwards should really run for governor of Michigan.
But then again, he can't play beer pong because he'd never hold onto the ball.
Whenever Daunte Culpepper plays beer pong he is picked last.
Not pictured, Heath Shuler lecturing college students on the evils of beer and sex
Lynn Swann is Republican, right? All he's missing is a popped collar.
what the picture doesn't show is steve largent and tom osborne downing the sunken cup on the other end of the table.
This shuold lock up the christian conservative freakshow coalition he needs to come out in force to beat Rendell.
for the last time, the game is called "Beirut"
Candidate Neil O'Donnell would have nailed someone ten feet to the left in the chest.
Wait, he didn't chug? Fucking party foul!
Please, write an article when he gets it in on a bounce, or a-bombs the other kid in his drinking cup.
hillary clinton stopped by a buffalo tailgate earlier this year and stopped by a beer pong table as well. she said "i remember this game from my college days" and then proceeded to climb onto the table, pull up her skirt and shot 6 ping pong balls out of 'bill's former playland' right into a cup of natural light. it pretty much guaranteed her the presidency in 2 years.
Candidate Drew Bledsoe would have thrown it in his own cups
Apropos of nothing, you all have less than an hour to nab an evening with Dennis Rodman on eBay.
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What you dont see is Mark Washington falling to ground trying to grab the cup on the other side.
Uh, Parker91 is dead on with this. The game being played so often nowadays is beirut, beer pong is an entirely different animal. Played with one cup of beer in each of the four service areas on a ping pong table, and as such played with ping pong paddles.
BEIRUT!!!
beer pong is played with paddles!
Sir Poops: Trenchant!
With stem cell research, Michael J Fox could play beer pong again someday without the fear of hitting himself in the face every time he throws.
But Lynn Swann doesn't seem to get it.
John Stallworth then made three in a row, but no one noticed.
StartingAces has a very good point.
This is why Chmura will never be governor of Wisconsin, or Massachusetts, or what-have-you. He'd be down for campaign-trail BEIRUT!, but then he'd feel the need to rape an underage girl. Not getting the values vote that way.
By the by, Chmura -- also a Republican.
beer die is a much better drinking game anyway.
I wish I could vote for a cool candidate like Swanny here in Florida. Unfortunately, my choices are Giant Douche or Turd Sandwich.
He made the cup, hes got my vote.
not that i have a vote in PA anyway, but symbolically
Look, you guys are right. Technically, it's beirut, but since we called it beer pong in college, it's beer pong to me now, and I think we all just need to accept that they're basically the same thing now.
I heart poop, you know beer die?? I love that game.
"Hey, you want to play 'Drink the Beer'?"
"Sure."
"You win!"
"What do I win?"
"Another beer!"
"Oh, man, I'm going for the high score."
Thank you, people for advocating for the use of the term Beirut. Beer pong uses paddles (handles option) and takes more skillz.
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.
Fuck throwing things. Just give me a good game of "I Never" ...
True Story:
A few years ago Lynn was in Raleigh, NC. We ran into him at a local restaurant/bar. He got so bombed that we went behind the bar and begain pouring everybody shots and various liquor drinks. At one point, he even took a body shot off of one of the cocktail waitresses. I've been a fan of his ever since.
I know me some beer die.
One time I swallowed the die. I did NOT go looking for it.
*that should read (handles optional)
When I hear the phrase "beer die", it always seems to be followed by the phrase "went to college in the middle of nowhere". In Boston we have beirut, kings, and (if you're lucky) Quarters. It's a shame, beer die is a blast.
flip cup, anyone?
I was on the sidelines for a Penn State at Nebraska football game a few years back - also in the press area prior to the game. Lynn Swann was there, and he was being himself...which is to say he was being a total bag of douche. Cream of the crop...of a-holes.
Anyway, about halfway through the game, I happen to be standing just behind him on the sidelines, and I noticed he had toilet paper stuck to his shoe. Seriously. I let it go for awhile, but then I realized how much I would enjoy pointing it out to him. So, I called out his name, as though I were a fan trying to catch his attention.
"Lynn, Lynn...."
He turned, looking fairly annoyed.
"You have toilet paper stuck on your shoe."
Now he was even more annoyed. It took about a full minute for him to remove it from his shoe.
Ahhhh, Lynn. D-bag.
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I'm not sure why I thought it'd be anything else, but I laughed nonetheless.
"Your clock won't flush."
beer pong is a different - equally fun, but different - game.
beer pong uses paddles and 2 cups (1/player)
beirut uses hands to "shoot" the balls and uses the classic pyramid of cups in front of both players.
diddly - what college? i need to know this.
There's a JC Watts joke in here somewhere...
I realize that Albany is not quite on par with Boston (well, population-wise, anyway), but it's hardly the middle of nowhere.
I went to school in New York City, and we had Beirut if we had the space and the bartender was willing to let us make a mess, which wasn't often. Usually, it was Drink the Beer, or sometimes Take the Shot.
When I was 17, I had some very good beer
I had some very good beer I purchased with a fake ID
My name was Brian McGee
I stayed up listening to Queen
When I was seventeen.
Beer die. Man, was I good at that.
Tony Romo ran left, right---and threw it away.
albany - #1 party school my junior year.
Yea, I know it doesn't mean anything, but we still felt special. you?
I never... showered with a drunk black republican.
Albany is a hell of a party school, but in terms of partying/student ratio, Siena may have it beat.
beer die was a big deal when i was in college in fl. we took it very seriously. god had to be an established beer die veteran and things could get pretty testy. games could go on for as long as 2 or 3 hrs depending on how good the teams were. man, i miss college.
You damn kids - in my day we played "drink till you puke so hard that you stain the concrete outside your apartment door".
Beer pong, Beirut. Amateurs.
Sweet C and Jen have the right idea, a good tourney of Flip Cup and a game of I Never are the best.
Kind of on the same subject, ie Politics. My friend just emailed me and said that NJ ruled that gay marriages should have the same rights as straight marriages. Take that Limbaugh.