Paper Football Board Game

Abstract

A game that is played following the same rules most football fans will understand. It consists of a playing board (measuring 36″×60″) that resembles a football field, with the yardage clearly marked (every 5 inches represents 10 yards) and a goal post at each end, a coin for decision making, twenty offense and twenty defense cards representing the teams, one set of red dice, one set of blue dice, a challenge flag, one challenge dice (with 3 sides for stand and 3 sides for overturned) and a play clock. The game is played with four six-minute quarters. The clock has multiple buttons to control the following: adjusting the game clock, adjusting each team's time-outs, adjusting each team's challenges, adjusting the score for each team.

What is claimed is new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent is set forth in the appended claim: 
     
         1 . A Paper Football Board Game comprising:
 a playing board in the image of a football field, with the yardage clearly marked and a goal post at each end, a coin for decision making, twenty offense and twenty defense cards representing the teams, one two color dice, a challenge flag, one challenge dice with 3 sides for stand and 3 sides for overturned and a play clock.   
     
     
         2 . A game according to  claim 1  further comprising:
 having a playing field having a plurality of goal posts, having a triangular-shaped paper football, having plurality of players forming two teams, using triangular-shaped paper football is used for scoring goals when playing the Paper Football Game, having two halves, a clock with a set time per half where each time will have a plurality of timeouts which will stop the clock, where one team first possession in the first half with the other team having first possession in the second half, where each possession will have a set number of downs, where each team will have a set number of challenges per half, a field goal which is worth 3 points, is scored when the football is kicked successfully through the field-goal post which is set at the end of the playing field, a touchdown is scored by tapping the football down the field in the 4th down, if the football hangs off the edge of playing field without falling off, it is a touchdown worth 6 points, after scoring a touchdown, the scoring team has an option to go for an extra point or a 2-point conversion where an extra point is a field goal attempted from the 35-yard line and a 2-point conversion is a 1-tap attempt to have football hang off the edge of playing field without falling off from the 5-yard line. 
 
     
     
         3 . A game according to  claim 2  further comprising:
 Having one team be a home team and another team be an away team. 
 
     
     
         4 . A game according to  claim 3  further comprising:
 Having the home team be determined by a coin toss. 
 
     
     
         5 . A game according to  claim 2  further comprising:
 Where each team is assigned a color. 
 
     
     
         6 . A game according to  claim 4  further comprising:
 Where the colors are blue and red. 
 
     
     
         7 . A game according to  claim 2  further comprising:
 Where each team will have three timeouts per half. 
 
     
     
         8 . A game according to  claim 2  further comprising:
 Where each team will have two challenges per half. 
 
     
     
         9 . A game according to  claim 2  further comprising:
 Where a challenge is decided by rolling a plurality of challenge dice. 
 
     
     
         10 . A game according to  claim 9  further comprising:
 Where when a challenge is won it will overturn the last play. 
 
     
     
         11 . A game according to  claim 2  further comprising:
 Where the set number of downs is four. 
 
     
     
         12 . A game according to  claim 2  further comprising:
 Having the played in four quarters. 
 
     
     
         13 . A game according to  claim 2  further comprising:
 Having each four quarters be six minutes. 
 
     
     
         14 . A game according to  claim 2  further comprising:
 Having the game clock have a pause button, a restart button, a score indicator and knob that is twisted to change the score. 
 
     
     
         14 . A game according to  claim 2  further comprising:
 Where on the last down, the team with possession has one of a set of three options, attempt to score a touchdown, attempt a field goal, or kickoff to the other team. 
 
     
     
         15 . A game according to  claim 14  further comprising:
 Where on a kickoff a team can attempt an onside kick which is decided by rolling the dice. 
 
     
     
         16 . A game according to  claim 15  further comprising:
 Where a team rolls two die and wins an onside kick by rolling doubles. 
 
     
     
         17 . A game according to  claim 14  further comprising:
 Where If the kickoff goes off of the board or out-of-bounds, it is a touch back, and the football is placed at the other team's 20-yard line, and where is hangs off the edge of the playing field is it a safety by the kicking team and worth 2 points and possession. 
 
     
     
         18 . A game according to  claim 14  further comprising:
 Where after kickoffs, each team rolls their dice, whoever wins the roll has the option to select a card within the next series of downs, where if the team winning the roll is on Offense takes cards from the Offense pile, and if on Defense picks cards from the Defense pile. 
 
     
     
         19 . A game according to  claim 18  further comprising:
 Where if the teams' roll tie each other, there is a re-roll. 
 
     
     
         20 . A game according to  claim 18  further comprising:
 Where double die roll beats all non double die rolls.