Patent ID: 7144014

Claim:
A method of playing a portable kicking game, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a thin, flexible, portable ground sheet having an upper surface and a lower surface; (b) providing a representation of an athletic playing field upon said ground sheet upper surface, said athletic playing field representation including a first score zone, a second score zone opposite the first score zone, and a medially disposed scoring attempt zone therebetween, wherein the first score zone, the second score zone and the scoring attempt zone are substantially equal in shape and dimension; (c) providing a high friction surface on said ground sheet lower surface; (d) providing at least two rows of evenly spaced hash marks on said ground sheet between the first score zone, the scoring attempt zone, and the second score zone; (e) providing at least one lightweight, portable, adjustably positionable goal assembly to be removably disposed at either end of the ground sheet; (f) providing a soft, lightweight kicking object; (g) laying out the ground sheet on a horizontal surface with the playing field representation facing upwardly and the high friction surface engaging the horizontal surface; (h) determining the first and second players; (i) positioning the kicking object upon the first score zone; (j) kicking the kicking object toward the second score zone, by a first player; (k) kicking the kicking object toward the first score zone from its resting point on the playing surface after the first player's kick, by a second player; (l) continuing in accordance with steps (j) and (k), until the kicking object comes to rest completely within one of the score zones; (m) awarding at least one point to the player whose kick resulted in the kicking object coming to rest completely within the score zone; and (n) continuing play in accordance with steps (i) through (m).