“Still undefeated! Go on, go back to your little neurosurgery operating room,” proctologist Colon Elliot taunts as he fishes a bean bag with expert precision from a hole cut in a wooden board. This is the scene at the UK HealthCare tailgate as doctors have begun playing cornhole on boards designed like the old Operation games. The highly skilled medical professionals found regular cornhole too simple.

“Hey, we’re having a rematch!” shouts neurosurgeon Brian Putamen as he heads back to the surgical team’s grill to flip the hot dogs. “Next time it’s House rules,” said his competitor. “You write a prescription with one hand and toss the bag and diagnose uncommon diseases with the other.”

The Operation cornhole boards have, in a very short time, become exceedingly popular with hospital physicians. “Regular cornhole? That’s med school stuff,” said one doctor as he fished a bean bag from one of several holes cut into the cartoon figure on the board. “It’s more challenging this way. One hole? Heck, I’m a doctor of ears, noses and throats, that’s 5 openings right there.”