#8 Oh, darts is big. The big tournys even make the American mouse sports channel and it is sick how good they are.
My experience was purely social, have some fun, win some drinks, I thought I was impressing the girls (yeah dang young).
However - a game of darts also ranks in my top five most competitive matches. Warning - any young bucks reading further must understand this game was played at a residence in a party setting and we brought sleeping blankets.
Three of us. Cricket. Winner was who had best combined three game score. If you threw a round and did not hit at least one of the targets, you took a half shot of whiskey (target could be closed, just needs to be hit). Furthermore, if you miss the board completely with a throw, you garner a half shot of whiskey.
Here's the twist! It was one of those electronic plastic tip boards. If you know, you know that sometimes the darts don't stick and if the machine does not register a hit...well chuck, you just missed the board. We were like cathedral masons checking the tips of those darts before throws. And by game 3, if the first two throws were misses we were aiming for our personal easiest to hit target instead of trying to close tougher choices.
We each had a heel. Mine was I learned on a metal and cork and some of my shots, 16s and especially triple 16s, flair or arc. Again, those of you who know, know, that is not a good quality for the electronic plastic as a glancing blow does not stick as well and the energy necessary to trigger the score is not there. Not sure how many times I called bullshit to no avail though to cool my burning throat. |
Spielberg, 23, spent 11 hours in jug in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday after being arrested for a fight with her 47-year-old pro-darts-player fiancé, Chuck Pankow, court records show.