Does anyone know how to play Paper Football? My wife and I saw the Best Buy commercial where there are two guys in a business meeting and one pulls out a paper football and kicks a field goal, and my wife didn’t know what game they were playing (she’s from China and is unfamiliar with most American children’s games).
Anyway, after some experimenting, I remembered how to fold a football. However, I don’t remember all of the rules. I know you slide the football and score a touchdown if it overhangs the edge of the table, but how many tries do you get (I think it was three)? You then get to try kicking an extra point. Knocking it off the table was a turnover. You punted the ball by starting with it overhanging your edge of the table and flicking it upward to the other side of the table. Is there anything I’m forgetting? How did you play (I’m sure there are regional variations)?
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We played the same way. Touchdown was if any part of the ball overhung the table. Three tries were allowed and punts were done from your own end of the table rather than the opponent taking over where it left off. If a punt went off the table, the opponent took control from the middle of the table.
We also played another version with pennies. This one used goal lines about 2 inches deep (or a goal about three inches wide, if playing hockey). Each player had three pennies. Two pennies placed next to each other and the third was slid into them to break them apart. You had four attempts to score by using a pencil or ruler to “slap” a penny and walk it down towards the goal. You could slap any penny, but it had to go between the other two pennies each time. If it didn’t make it between them or you didn’t score, the opponent started by breaking his two pennies from the spot of the opponents penny that was closest to the opponents goal. That one could get rather involved but was a lot of fun.
Actually, I did search for it but mostly got pages to download some “Paper Football 3D” computer game. I must have missed that one.
JJ, we played the same way you were mentioning. I remember it to be three, also.
I friggin’ loved that game. It’s been a long time since I’ve played
We played this pretty much the way you described, except we made a goal with our fingers. We would extend the index and middle finger of one hand and lay them flat on the table, with the knuckles closest to the base of the hand up against the edge of the table. A goal, of course, was executed by sliding a penny into the slot thus made, but the penny had to make contact with the knuckles.
I meant index finger, not middle finger…
Or did you mean little finger? 