Monthly Archives: June 2016

David Taitano (a.k.a. RogueBorg1)

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The beauty of the APBA Convention is the camaraderie, just being in the same room with so many folks who share the same passion for our hobby. I always look forward to seeing “the guys” but really enjoy when I finally get to meet someone face-to-face who I have corresponded with for years on the message boards. This year I had the pleasure of hanging out with David Taitano or as he is known on “Between the Lines” – RogueBorg1. What a class guy!!  We probably spent a total of 13-hours playing football and loved every second of it.  Dave just has one character flaw; he doesn’t know how to lose. The only solace I can take out of the “beat downs” was the outcome of each game came down to the final roll.

Dave and I

 

Tribute to APBA Football

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As someone who loves APBA Football, this past Friday’s Hall of Fame Induction ceremony had an APBA Football theme to it. Hall of Famer and renown APBA Football player, Greg Wells, brilliantly performed “Master of Ceremony” duties. He began with a tribute to recently deceased, Howard Ahlskog. Howard ran the APBA Journal during the 80s and is the preeminent “Football” guy in APBA history. Greg began with a moment of silence and then shared several personal stories of his friendship with Howard. Greg than provided a short bio and introduced, without question, the second biggest name in APBA Football history, Mr. Ray Dunlap, into the APBA Hall of Fame.  Ray was the commissioner of the Suncoast Football League for over 20 years, APBA Football writer for the Journal, creator of several innovations to include his extremely popular “Match-up System” just to mention a few of his many accomplishments.  Greg ended the evening by introducing Mr. John Herson into the Hall of Fame.  I know John’s passion for the APBA Football game and it was the perfect way to close out the ceremony.  I’m so proud and honored to be inducted with these two fine men.

Ray and I

Timing Adjustment Chart

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When using the Master Game Addition, each quarter consists of 30 full plays.  Certain plays are recorded as half-plays (i.e., incompletions, touchdowns, field goals, safeties, plays that go out of bounds, whenever the ball changes team possession and penalties).  Each half play accounts for a 15- second interval, a quarter consists of 60 half plays.  Let’s use the following example, The NY Jets kick off to the NE Patriots and the ball is returned to the NE 20-yard line to begin the game (half play or 14:45). Tom Brady’s first down pass is incomplete (half play or 14:30).  L. Blount is stuffed for no gain on second down but remained in bounds (full play or 14:00). Darrelle Revis intercepts Tom Brady’s third-down pass 25-yards downfield and returns it 45-yards for a touchdown (half play or 13:45).  I would record this play on the reverse side of my scoresheet as: NYJ – Revis 45 interception return (Folk kick), 13:45.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have an alternative timing methodology to enhance the realism of the game? Wait no more; Mark Zarb has created a simple but effective solution that only requires three dice (traditional red and white die and another colored die) and the Timing Adjustment Chart. After a scoring play, roll all three dice and read the red/white in first column and the other colored die across the top.  If the other colored die roll is a 6, a re-roll is required.

Timing Adjustment Example

Using the above example, I would add 8 from the original time of 13:45 resulting in the new time of 13:53. I would now record the scoring play as: NYJ – Revis 45 interception return (Folk kick), 13:53.

Note:  If you time a game were the final play of the game is annotated as the 15:00 mark, you would subtract.  If you time a game were the final play of the game is annotated as 0:00 you would add.