Anchorman is a team game that builds up a fierce
rivalry. And remember boys and girls there is no
"I" in team. This is a game that requires at
least eight people. Well you can have less but it is not
advised. It is actually better to have more unless you
plan to get totally wasted.
Two teams sit on opposite sides of a table and try
to get a quarter into a full pitcher of beer. To
start the game flip a coin, and have a team call
heads or tails in the air. If correct that team
starts. Each team member shoots a quarter, trying to
make it land in the pitcher. Each player only shoots
once per turn even if they are successful in putting
the quarter in the pitcher. Once everyone on the team
shoots, the other team now shoots in order. The first
team to put all 4 of their quarters in the pitcher is
the winner. This means the losing team has to drink
the contents of the pitcher (usually 4-5 beers
depending on the size of the pitcher) But before they
drink, the winning team has to pick someone to be the
"ANCHORMAN". The anchorman must drink last
and finish the remaining beer, whether it is just a
sip or the whole pitcher. Teammates of the anchorman
must drink first and decide how much they leave for
the anchorman. While drinking, the teammates cannot
take their lips off of the pitcher. If they do, they
must pass the pitcher to the next person. The
anchorman can take his lips off of the pitcher but
has a 2 minute time limit to finish the pitcher. Once
he finishes the pitcher, fill it up again and play
the game once more. When we play this game we usually
have a wide variety of beer that gets poured into the
pitcher to make it even nastier. Our rivalries get so
intense sometimes that we actually "let the
anchorman go dry". We have had situations where
our heavier drinkers have finished a full pitcher of
beer alone, but that was back in the college days. On
a scale of 1-10 on the heavy drinking meter I would
rate Anchorman a 10. It was not unusual to play this
game and finish 15-20 pitchers in a night.
