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Originally Posted by Richard Wallace
Poof Footballs would make excellent gamepieces, IF human players are NOT permitted to touch them.
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Very good point. If these were to be used in some fashion, the HPs should be given a unique task that doesn't involve throwing footballs.
However, to be honest, it would be interesting, if a projectile game, the HPs could only score them in the high goal (assuming it's about the size of the inside diameter of a tire) to simulate throwing a football at a tire swing in your backyard (only from your driver station, over the station wall, across the field). That wouldn't be that easy, even for a traditional Quarterback.
Besides, it doesn't mean they have to be full-size footballs either, FIRST could troll us with the mini-poof footballs that are all but impossible to throw like a traditional football.
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Originally Posted by GeeTwo
American football - the down structure would be utterly unusable unless we had much longer matches. We would have to cut the number of matches down by a factor of ten - sort of like the difference between MLB/NBA and the NFL. And if you get rid of the down structure and other stuff that only makes sense because of it, you're pretty close to rugby - see next paragraph.
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As I said, I think they could incorporate the football as a game-piece but not entirely the same rules as American football. I like your idea of Rugby but I would argue that 2014 morphed into something closer to Rugby by the end, what with all the defense being played.
I could almost see having multiple goalposts and having to "kick" the footballs through them to score varied number of points. Similar to field-goals in American football or "drop-goal" in Rugby. Not sure how they would implement multipliers or an end-game but it's a thought.