Patent ID: 7159867

Claim:
A method of playing a board game comprising: placing a first set of tokens representative of a first team of sports players on a game board having a portion representative of a sports playing field; placing a second set of tokens representative of a second team of sports players on the game board; purchasing, by the first team, at least one player card from a set of player cards, wherein each one of the set of player cards represents at least one characteristic of a sports player; purchasing, by the second team, at least one player card from the set of player cards; determining which sports player has possession of a ball; determining if the sports player with possession of the ball scores; and providing a predetermined amount of money if the sports player with possession of the ball scores to the team that owns a player card corresponding to the sports player that scores; wherein the predetermined amount of money is specified by the player card corresponding to the sports player that scores.