Category Archives: Downey Games

Football Status

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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!

The Big Guys

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I was going through some older table top sports games in my collection, like this APBA Football game from 1995, and it reminded me of why I’ve chosen to play games from companies other than APBA and Strat-O-Matic.

I went on both those sites to see how much a season set would cost, and for APBA Football they seemed to run between $50-$120 per season.  Strat-O-Matic seasons ran $32-$42, but the oldest complete season was 2002.

A printed season from Inside Sports Games for Inside Blitz Football can run $42-$58, but they also offer a PDF option for $15-$17.

Downey Games offers Grid Iron Wars for $30 for a complete game with 1 season, printed, or $7.95 for the game parts in PDF.  Printed seasons run for $8-$15 while PDF seasons run $8-11.

PLAAY Games has Second Season for $49, with seasons going for $25-$33 printed, and $19-$21 PDF.

The major difference between APBA/SOM and the other companies is that with the former you’re getting individual player cards per team, while the latter have team sheets with all the players on a sheet.  At the moment, I prefer the team sheets to individual cards.

One plus, had I stuck with the Big Two, would be that I would have bought less seasons (in all sports games) than I currently own because of availability and price.  I only own one complete season for SOM Baseball (2011), SOM Football (2009) and SOM Hockey (1993-94), for example.

And in the picture above, those are the only two *teams* that I own for APBA Football.

Ultra Quick Football

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Apparently I acquired this game as well, 4 years ago, probably when I was planning out some replays.  I also had the 1980s NFL and 1990s CFL sets.

But like many other games from that time, it went unplayed.

So now I’m going to incorporate this game into my football replays, same as how I plan to do it with Ultra Quick Soccer.

I picked up the “History of the AFL” and NFL 1960s and 1970s sets to cover all the other football season replays that I plan on playing.

Stay tuned!

New Year, New In Progress Chart

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Sure, let’s add the 1947 49ers replay, and put the 1967 Warriors replay back on the schedule.

Stay tuned!

2018-19: EPL, Game 1

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Despite my preference for non-quick play soccer games, I decided to give Ultra Quick Soccer a try.

I think I found my go-to system to play the season’s games for teams that I’m not playing in Net Results Soccer, at least for the 2018-19 season (i.e. everyone except Cardiff City).

It takes a few minutes to setup and play a game, with at least 2 die rolls to determine a game score, though some games may require 6 or more.

And there’s an option to determine who actually scored.

I can probably knock off a team’s season schedule in an hour or so.

11 Aug 2018:

Newcastle United 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur

Goals: NEW: Perez 22′ TOT: Longstaff (OG) 9′, Eriksen 30′

Not much in the way of stats for this game, like all other quick play games.  Which is the point.

Only 341 games to go.

Stay tuned!

1947?

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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!

In Progress, Revision to the Revised Revision of the Revision

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The main change is putting the 1967 Warriors on hold, along with the 1988 Mets (revisited) replay.  I anticipate playing a soccer game with PSV soon, and hopefully starting basketball and hockey in the coming weeks.

Stay tuned!

Grid Iron Wars, 1997: Denver Broncos @ San Francisco 49ers

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49ers 24
Broncos 17

Scoring summary:
1st:
DEN: Elam FG
2nd:
DEN: Davis TD (Elam XP)
SF: Owens TD (Anderson XP)
DEN:  R. Smith TD (Elam XP)
SF: Stokes TD (Anderson XP)
SF: Anderson FG
3rd:
SF:  Hearst TD (Anderson XP)

Stat Leaders

Passing:
John Elway: 12-16, 171 yds, 1TD, 1 INT
Steve Young: 19-26, 242 yds, 2 TD, 2 INT

Rushing:
Terrell Davis: 14 carries, 78 yds, 1 TD
Garrison Hearst: 16 carries, 99 yds, 1 TD

Receiving:
Ed McCaffrey: 4 rec, 42 yds
J. J. Stokes: 10 rec, 125 yds, 1 TD