My brother and I must have played this hundreds of times. This football boardgame stayed exciting the entire game. Each player secretly chose a play (offense and defense), then placed one card over the other. Holes in the card would show positive and negative numbers. Then one player would flick the spring and the pointer would stop “springing” and point at a number. The number would be the yards gained or lost. The better yardage would be listed in a smaller area of the card, which was harder for the pointer to point at. (Does any of this make sense? It really isn’t complicated.) A different version of NFL Strategy featured a spinner instead of the spring, which made more sense in the long run (no pun intended).
I think I know where this game is. Maybe I’ll pull it out and give it a spin.
2 Responses to “25 Toys of Christmas Past: NFL Strategy”
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December 22nd, 2008 at 2:49 am
I never had one of these but I had friends that had them. I don’t think I ever played the game, though. Now you make me want to track one down.
August 18th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I had one with the spring and it eventually wore out. Got another with dice, still fun, but different. All my defensive cards have the numbers worn off and most the offense too. Wanna sell?
But what fun!