1950: The NFL

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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!

Baseball

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I want to play more tabletop baseball but I take too much time setting up the leagues in BallStat.

I should just handscore the games I play outside of the season replays.

But I use BallStat because my arthritis makes it difficult to handscore these games.

But then I handscore EVERY OTHER SPORT I PLAY ON THE TABLETOP BESIDES BASEBALL.

Not much of an excuse anymore, is it?

Onward and forward into the next year, there’s games to play!

Stay tuned!

Ultra Quick Sports

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I dug out my copies of Ultra Quick Football and Ultra Quick Soccer last week, which then gave me the idea to pick up Ultra Quick Baseball, since it’s supposed to be a way to quickly sim the rest of the games in a single team replay.

I’m going to try it with the 1921 and 1971 season replays that I’m currently playing (though stalled due to my own indifference toward what to play lately).

It’ll probably take as long to sim all the games up to the point where I am in those seasons as it took to play those games.  I hope not.

Stay tuned!

Return to SSX

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Second Season Express still takes a while to play a game.

Not as long as a regular Second Season game, but still longer than other Express games from PLAAY.

Still, I may try to power through and finally finish the 1967 Denver Broncos season replay this week.

The plan is to finish some of these season replays that have been sitting idle under the full PLAAY games using the Express version, specifically this 1967 Broncos replay, perhaps the 1966-67 NHL replay, and maybe the 1974 John D’Acquisto season replay.

I may start a 1974 fictional Lacrosse season replay once Lacrosse Blast Express arrives.

Stay tuned!

1979: Giants Replay, Game 2

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Felt like playing Statis Pro Baseball today, so I dug it out and played the second game of the Giants’ 1979 season.

Final from Riverfront Stadium:

9th inning heroics by both teams, but the Reds end up winning on a wild pitch by Greg Minton.

Alas.

Eight years between games of this replay, so I don’t know if/when I’ll continue this one.

Chomp

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One of the freebies from this year’s PLAAY Holiday Sale was the 1995-96 NHL Season for Hockey Blast.

I happily downloaded and opened it up on my PC and smiled when I saw the names on the San Jose Sharks squad from that year.

I then went to print it out and again felt happy to see the team roster.

And then I went to hockey-reference.com to review that season.

20-55-7 record.  Dead last in the Pacific Division.  Yikes.

I remember going to more than a few games that season, and the seasons before and after that.

I remember the faces but not the names of some of the regulars who sat around us.

I remember the loudest CLANG off the crossbar when Eric Lindros fired a shot on goal.  Not sure if it was that season, but it was certainly during that time.

And that Sharks team was one of my favorite sports teams during that period as well.

With the new Hockey Blast Express I expect to roll some games from that season, maybe not a full season replay, and not just Sharks games.

The Flyers won their division that season, only to be knocked out of the playoffs by the eventual Eastern Conference Champs, the Florida Panthers.

If I play out a Flyers-Sharks Cup final, I’m afraid San Jose is gonna get swept by the Flyers.

But we’ll see.

Stay tuned!