Just Like a Rolling Stone

So upon an invite from friends, I partook (that a word?) in the game of lawn bowling on Saturday. Upon first look, it's a game played by people who are of advanced ages living out their AARP years and maybe richies sipping on champagne. Well, on second look, it is alot of older dudes in white suits, looking like cricket players. But it looks like the lawn bowling folks are trying to get the whipper snappers out to the grounds, and why not? It's a game that has similarities to a number of other games that young people if not love, tend to play on occasion. And plus, there's always a bar attached to the grounds, so that always makes any game more interesting.
Basically, the goal is to roll your ball thingy as close to the little white ball as possible on a short grass surface, similar to a golf putting green. Now, all this ball talk brought back (or moreso reinvigorated) a 12-year-old mentality of finding anything to do with balls as funny. Any sexual innuendo was possible, actually, as we felt for the heavy side of the balls, admired an old man wiping off his balls and instructing us newbies to be gentle with the balls when it was our turn.
The juvenile humor aside, why are there so many games where you have to get one object as close as possible to one "nucleus" object? Was this the basis for the first game ever? In horshoes it's a horeshoe with a stick, shuffle board is a round thingy with some other thingy, bar shuffleboard is round thingys on a long wooden board, curling is the things with a handle near the circles, helped with those agic brooms. Am I missing another? I now know basketball has it's relative in netball, a form of the former without a net or backboard. American football has rugby. Baseball has cricket. But the most simple of games, and in my guesstimation, the first games invented, involved sending an object one direction in hopes of stopping as close as possible to another.
It would only be natural to now think of a full-fledged drinking game in this mold: shuffling shot glasses towards the tequila bottle? Pushing quarters towards the full pint glass? Or maybe best bet is to go for the balls.