Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer’s favorite game — “a simple yet addictive pastime with Midwestern origins” called cornhole — is examined this week in a New York Times article that attributes the game’s newfound popularity partially to Hemmer, a Cincinnati native:
One of the men responsible for spreading the gospel of cornhole in New York is Bill Hemmer, 46, the Fox News anchor. “I find it to be a very charming, passive, social summer game until you get to the moment where you have a close game and you have to score or you lose,” he said recently in his backyard in Sag Harbor, N.Y., before a game involving four players, including one new convert. “What I find is they remember the day that they first played. For the first-timers, it makes a memory for them.”
Mr. Hemmer discovered the game when he was visiting his hometown, Cincinnati, in 2005. “I heard through friends and family back home that they were playing tailgate toss as the next wave of entertainment before the Cincinnati Bengals games,” he said. He flew back to New York with a cornhole set stowed in the luggage compartment of his Delta flight. And last Christmas, he bought sets for several Fox staff members.
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