Patent ID: 7232128

Claim:
A method of playing a simulated football game, comprising the following steps: identifying a selected number of prededermined actual football players and their respective position in actual football teams; identifying score points achieved by the selected football players during a previous playing season; providing a game board having indicia thereon including instructions for advancing along a designated path along the game board; providing a first deck of cards, each card comprising indicia thereon representative of the selected football players, score points achieved by the selected football players during a previous playing season and the selected football players' respective position in actual teams; providing a chance means for randomly determining an order of selection of cards from the first deck of cards by two or more game players; providing a first plurality of deck of cards for recording a game score, each of said first plurality of deck of cards comprising indicia thereon representing a weekly score of a team during a playing season; providing a second plurality of deck of cards, each of said second plurality of deck of cards comprising indicia thereon representing instructions for advancing along the designated path on the game board, which correspond to instructions on the game board; providing a plurality of game tokens, said tokens comprising a first set of tokens having indicia representing team numbers, a second set of tokens having indicia representing weekly point scores and a third set of tokens having indicia representing season point scores; beginning a play by using the chance means; identifying a first game player with the highest chance means score and allowing said first game player to pick selected cards from the first deck of cards representative of actual football players; allowing the first game player to form a play team group represented by the selected cards from the first deck of cards; using the chance means to determine for all game players selected cards from the first deck of cards representing football players for their respective play team groups; using the chance means to advance game players along the game board, while following instructions for advancing along the game board imprinted on the game board and the second plurality of the deck of cards; creating a record of play points as simulated scores for weekly and season plays and declaring a winner based on the highest score of play points achieved at the end of a playoffs week.