Tag Archives: Football

1960: Broncos Replay, Game 2

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I played the second game of the season because it’s against my friend Lando’s team, the Bills.

I’ll play the first game next.

Final from War Memorial Stadium:

Since this is a quick play, game, there’s really no stats generated, except for TD passes/runs, XPs made, and FGs made.  So I’ll just keep things simple with the box scores.

Football

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Al Wilson released a free print-n-play football game.

Fast Drive Football is a drive-by-drive quick play game.  Each possession/drive is resolve with a single roll of the dice, using charts much like many PLAAY games like History Maker Baseball.

I downloaded the rules, charts, and all the seasons available (more added periodically), and printed the 1960, 1972, and 1981 seasons.

I’ll give it a spin soon, after I go over the rules.  If I have time I may replay the entire 1960 Broncos season, even though I’m going to start with their week 2 opponents as a ‘tutorial’.

And it may be obvious which teams seasons I’ll try to replay for the other two seasons that I printed out.

Stay tuned!

Vulcans? In Birmingham?

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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!

PLAAY Holiday Sale 2020

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No sign of the two missing MLB NL card sets.

But did pick up a few PDFs from PLAAY.com‘s 2020 Holiday sale, including:

  • a new jai-alai game
  • the NFL/AFL 1969 season for Second Season football
  • the MLB 1975 season for History Maker Baseball, which comes full circle since the sample teams in my original boxed game were the 2 World Series teams from 1975
  • the 1960 SCRAM (fictional) season for Red White & Blue Racing

Of the 4 I’ve already printed out the racing set, and am currently making the schedule for the Replay To Be Started Soon™.

The funny thing is that just last week I was wondering if PLAAY was ever going to come out with a 1960s season set for the game.  Hopefully a NASCAR set will be produced from that era.

I’m still hoping that those two season sets show up.

Stay tuned!

Friday Night Legends

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I’m surprised I didn’t post about this game until now.

Friday Night Legends, a *high school* football game.  The game comes with a sampling of Texas high school teams, since the game creators are from Texas.

It doesn’t have individual players, and just 6 plays on offense and 6 plays on defense.

It took me the better part of two and a half weeks to get though one game, but it’s a fun one.  I made a few mistakes as one does when trying out a new game.

I randomly picked 2 teams that came with the base game: Sealy 1978 and Kerrville Tivy 2010.

It wasn’t until I looked for graphics for these two teams and saw the significance of them.

Sealy Tigers 1978:


Some running back named Eric Dickerson.

Tivy 2010:


A quarterback named Johnny Manziel

And the results of the game I played reflects these two players.

Sealy Tigers 37
Tivy Antlers 10

Seally scored 5 rushing touchdowns (plus one FG and one missed XP) to Tivy’s 1 passing TD.

Did Dickerson score them all?  Maybe.  And Johnny Football probably threw that one TD pass.

I didn’t take very good stats, to be honest, But I’ll try to next time I play this game.

Though I should try the college counterpart to this game as well.

Stay tuned!