Transcript: Lynn Neary tries out the newest rage in bar games -- Bar...

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March 20, 1993
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LYNN NEARY, Host: [bar sounds] Perhaps you haven't checked out the bar scene lately - maybe you left it behind at the ferns and fake Tiffany lamp stage. You figure people are still hanging out drinking beer, maybe shooting some pool, playing a friendly game of darts, indulging in a pinball match or a video game. Think again.

LOUDSPEAKER VOICE: Welcome to Perfect Tommy's Bar Sumo Competition. If you wish to wrestle in tonight's competition, please come downstairs to the Bar Sumo mat and see me immediately.

NEARY: Perfect Tommy's, on New York's very trendy upper west side, is the place that made the human bar fly game popular - that's the one where people don a ...

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