Two conferences, National and American.
I’ll work out a schedule later.
Stay tuned!
Tag Archives: Football
Print-and-Play
One problem I have is finding time to play games.
A further problem is preparing print-and-play games for play.
Case in point:
I originally purchased this game during PLAAY.com’s 2018 holiday sale, and even printed out the game and the expansion team set that was sold separately.
The original teams:
- Houston Hombres
- Los Angeles Lunatics
- New York Nukes
- Detroit Rippers
The first 4 expansion teams:
- Minnesota Chill
- Seattle Droids
- San Francisco Heroes
- Cleveland Stevedores
I let the game sit on a shelf, and every time they released another expansion, I’d get it and print it out, but I only ever cut out the original 8 teams.
By the time I collected the rest of the teams they had released the game as a boxed edition. And since I already had everything in print-and-play format, I decided against buying the boxed edition.
I finally did get around to cutting out the 16 remaining expansion teams, and have yet to cut out the international expansion teams.
- Vegas Bada Bings
- Miami Maelstrom
- Pacific Dreadnoughts
- Phoenix Inferno
- New Orleans Big Fun
- Chicago Binge
- Boston Malcontents
- Denver Wild Blue
- Dallas TNT
- Gulf Coast Splash
- Kansas City Drifters
- Atlanta Gems
- Milwaukee Buzz
- Washington Panic
- Philadelphia Mongrels
- Nashville Twang
I did manage to print and cut out the coach cards, and assigned a coach to each of the 24 teams.
Now I just need to figure out a play format, and a league format, though 12 teams per conference and 4 teams per division makes the most sense, I suppose. At least until I introduce the International teams into the mix.
And I suppose I should play an exhibition game or two so I can learn how the game plays.
Stay tuned!
Grid Iron Wars
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!
Super Bowl LIV
Football Status
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
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.
GFL 2020 Season
Final Standings:
The top two teams from last season finished at the top again this season. However, a playoff round was added with the 2nd place teams.
This year’s East expansion team would meet last year’s East expansion team.
The Porgs edged out the expansion Blurrgs based on point differential in the West.
Playoff round:
As expected, the top two teams met again in the championship game.
Championship:
The Tauntauns avenged last season’s loss to the Dewbacks, claiming the newly named Skywalker Trophy for the 2020 season.
GFL 2020
Ultra Quick Football
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!
