The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
Count on me to pick a season where a third of the teams don’t have a logo.
No logo:
Baltimore Colts
Detroit Lions
Green Bay Packers
New York Yanks
Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals, Cleveland Browns
Los Angeles Rams. New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles
Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins
This is the first year of the NFL-AAFC merger, which expanded the NFL from 10 to 13 teams.
The new teams were the Colts, Browns, and 49ers.
When I get around to this replay, I may play out the entire league, or just the 49ers.
Stay tuned!
I plan on continuing the following ongoing replays:
Baseball
1921 NY Giants (Payoff Pitch Baseball)
1971 SF Giants (Ball Park Baseball)
Soccer
2015-16 Tottenham Hotspur (APBA Soccer)
2020-21 AFC Richmond (Dice United)
Racing
1984 Winston Cup (Red White & Blue Racin’)
2012 SCRAM (Red White & Blue Racin’)
Football
1960 Denver Broncos (Fast Drive Football)
1967 Denver Broncos (Second Season/Second Season Express/Inside Blitz/Grid Iron Wars)
At some point I plan on adding hockey and basketball into the mix, as time permits. I just have to decide which replays to include:
Hockey
1966-67 NHL (Hockey Blast)
1969-70 Oakland Seals (Hockey Blast)
1991-92 San Jose Sharks (APBA)
2013-14 IHL (Hockey Blast, fictional)
2022-23 Central Cities League (Stone Cold Hockey, fictional)
Basketball
1960-61 Syracuse Nationals (Bank Shot Basketball)
1966-67 San Francisco Warriors (Inside the Paint)
2022-23 Basketball League of America (Highlight Maker Hoops, fictional)
And of course I’ll be tracking all the games right here.
Stay tuned!
I was browsing a site selling t-shirts of defunct sports teams, and learned that there was a team in the World Football League called the Birmingham Vulcans.
So of course I looked for the team in any team sets available for games that I play.
I learned that they played for one season, or rather part of a season before the league folded.
They were the team with the best record when the league ceased operations, so a bunch of sports writers declared them the champions of that shortened season.
I may replay the entire season, or just the games that were never played.
Stay tuned!
I ordered the Fast Action System and Advanced Game for Grid Iron Wars, along with the other two AAFC seasons available (1948, 1949), and Downey Games threw in the 1969 AFL season as an extra. Cool!
I wonder if it’s because this year is the first time the Kansas City Chiefs have been in the Super Bowl since then, 50 years ago?
Of course now I should get the 1969 NFL season so I can replay Super Bowl IV. Then again, I didn’t get the 1967 NFL season when I got the 1967 AFL season.
Stay tuned!
So.
I have to get off my ass and get back to what I started 4 years ago, the 1967 replays.
It’ll happen. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
That 49ers replay may or may not start before Super Bowl LIV.
As for the other type of football:
These replays will get as much attention as I can muster, when not busy/distracted. I’m less inclined to play the 2008-09 replay due to the fact that Spurs did so poorly that season, and the game engine for Net Results Soccer is slightly different for 2008-09 than from the 2017-18 seasons. It can get a bit confusing.
Basketball and hockey have never been started, so no need to make a post about either of those sports replays.
Stay tuned!
I was curious about the early days of the San Francisco 49ers, and an internet search later I discovered that they had started in the All-American Football Conference, not the NFL.
So of course I looked around to see if any table top sports games that I owned had any seasons available from the AAFC (1946-1949).
The oldest I could find was the 1947 AAFC season for Grid Iron Wars.
I may play this season using the 49ers and the Buffalo Bills.
Stay tuned!
