Category Archives: Football

GFL 2019 – Week 1

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It begins!

I ran through the first week of games, not sure if I’ll continue to post in this format, or just do the whole season in one fell swoop (or two).

The defending champion Denver Tauntauns appear to have picked up where they left off last season.  Yikes.

Nice to see an expansion team take down the East Division champs, though.

More to come as time permits.

Stay tuned!

SFBAL -> SFBABL

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Because ‘Ess Eff Babble’ sounds better.

The San Francisco Bay Area League is now the San Francisco Bay Area Baseball League.

Because I may create the SFBAFL later, with Pen & Paper Football.  Who knows.

Anyways, the slate of games for the rest of ‘SFBABL Week 2’, played on April 23rd, 2018:

Santa Rosa Herons vs. Santa Cruz Slugs @ the Santa Cruz Beach-Boardwalk
San Jose Piranha vs. San Rafael Porgs @ Skywalker Ranch
Concord Jazz vs. Bay City Armadillos @ PepsiCo Park
Napa Vinters vs. Vallejo Commodores @ Sutter Health Park

I’m finally adapting the new rules from Deadball II into my game play, which will mostly affect… most of the game.  Heh.

Hopefully I’ll get to these games this week.

Stay tuned!

Dice Tower Venues

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The creative part of me wants to build another dice tower, specifically for basketball and hockey table top games.

I’ve made two of these, both specific purpose-built, for baseball and football.

The new one would represent an indoor arena, presumably for basketball and hockey.

I rarely use the football one.

I don’t even play either basketball or hockey on the table top, yet.

But I still want to make another one.

And possibly one for motorsports.

Arrgh.

Past vs. Present

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In my baseball projects, I find that I have little or no interest in playing any season past 1990, except for the Giants’ postseason campaigns when they won the World Series.

Though my fictional baseball leagues are based in more recent years (2016-).

As for football, I’m content playing the 1967 Denver Broncos season, dabbling a bit in the 1958 NFL season.  I own the 2015 season only because of the Broncos Super Bowl championship, the majority of the other seasons that I own are pre-1990 as well.

I’ve had the itch to play football lately, but my disillusionment with the current NFL has stopped me from starting a new project with more recent teams and seasons.

The fictional league that I played with Pen & Paper Football was fun, but that was more of a quick-play game.

So I may go back to a project that I started to put together back in 2014: the Football Clubs of America league, using the 2014 Football America fictional league from PLAAY Games.

I went as far as renaming the teams and creating a schedule, so I may start from there again and maybe play a game occasionally.

The teams:

National Conference
Golden Bay Invaders
Los Angeles Bulldogs
New York Knights
Oklahoma City Wranglers
Portland Storm
San Antonio Riders

American Conference
Chicago Winds
Detroit Wheels
Memphis Hound Dogs
New Jersey Generals
Orlando Renegades
Philadelphia Bell

16-week schedule, no byes, teams play conference opponents twice and non-conference opponents once, top conference teams meet in the Championship Game.

We’ll see if I ever get this project started or not.

Stay tuned!

Edit: my mistake, it’s actually the Football America 2013 season.