{"id":5066,"date":"2024-05-07T10:13:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/?p=5066"},"modified":"2024-05-07T10:13:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:13:53","slug":"incoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/2024\/05\/incoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Incoming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this tracking update is right, APBA Football will be arriving tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing many tabletop sports games over the years, and while full play baseball is my go-to, I would tend to play quick play games in most everything else, football in particular.<\/p>\n<p>I found the grind of playing Inside Blitz and Second Season to be a little grueling, resulting in my not completing the 1967 Broncos replay with any haste, even with quick play games like Second Season Express (which really isn&#8217;t what I consider quick play, to be honest).<\/p>\n<p>But lately I find myself playing both APBA Soccer and APBA Hockey, which are definitely *not* quick play games, and I found myself enjoying the game as it played out in pseudo-real time, like the baseball games that I&#8217;d been playing.<\/p>\n<p>And after watching a few YouTube videos about APBA Football, I decided to take the plunge, knowing full well that play-by-play football games take the longest to play.<\/p>\n<p>The first Second Season Football game that I played out took the better part of 2 weekends to complete, mainly because I was still learning how to play.\u00a0 Inside Blitz took about 1\/2 that time once I got the hang of the flow of the game.\u00a0 Second Season Express takes maybe an hour or more to play a game, at the most.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, I can finish a baseball game (any game engine\/system) in about 1\/2 an hour to 45 minutes, on average.\u00a0 Quick play games (soccer, hockey) generally take me about the same amount of time, as does a shorter race in Red White &amp; Blue Racin&#8217;.\u00a0 APBA Hockey and Soccer can take up to a couple of hours per game.<\/p>\n<p>And admittedly, I have never finished a full play basketball game.\u00a0 Highlight Maker Hoops is more like a quick play game than a full basketball game, and I&#8217;ve not touched that one in a while.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m ready to try APBA Football, which may take the same amount of time to play as a real NFL game, but if the experience is fun, as I&#8217;ve heard it is from YouTubers, it&#8217;ll be worth the time to me.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5067\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/elway_rookie.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/elway_rookie.webp 758w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/elway_rookie-300x198.webp 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/elway_rookie-2x1.webp 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this tracking update is right, APBA Football will be arriving tomorrow. I&#8217;ve been playing many tabletop sports games over the years, and while full play baseball is my go-to, I would tend to play quick play games in most everything else, football in particular. I found the grind of playing Inside Blitz and Second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[323,18,44,86],"class_list":["post-5066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apba-football","tag-323","tag-denver-broncos","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5068,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions\/5068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}