Paper football

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This article is about the tabletop dexterity game. For the pencil-and-paper game, see Paper soccer.
Children playing a game of paper football

Paper football (also called FIKI football, finger football, flick football, or tabletop football) refers to a table-top game, loosely based on American football, in which a sheet of paper folded into a small triangle is slid back and forth across a table top by two opponents.[1] This game is widely practiced for entertainment, mostly by students in primary, middle school, and high school age in the United States.[2]

Gameplay[]

First, you fold paper into a triangle. Then the ball is kicked off by being placed on the palm of one of the players hands and flung upward by moving the arm upward and bending the hand down. The ball now that it is on the table is the other player's ball. The player in possession of the ball pushes it with a steady fast motion (No slowly pushing it) towards the other player. if it is hanging on the edge of the table after being pushed then that is a touchdown which can be one or six points depending on how you want to play. Once a touchdown is scored the scoring player has a chance to make a field goal this is accomplished by placing the ball however you like on the table with one corner held up by an index finger the other index finger is then used to flick the ball through the goal posts. The goal posts are created by placing your wrists parallel to the table on the edge of the table pointing up with the tips of your thumbs together and index fingers pointing straight up. The field goal if made is plus 1 point whether you play with American football scoring rules, or every score is plus one-point rules. If the ball falls off the table kickoff is repeated by the losing player and the game continues. Finishing the game can be decided with a timer for instance (The player with the highest score after fifteen minutes wins) or it can be decided by whoever reaches a predesignated number first for instance (First to eight wins). If the game drags on for a noticeably long time with no scoring or stuck as a tie it is a stalemate and no one wins.

Field goals[]

The longest field goal ever recorded in paper football was 23 feet (7.01 meters), which was achieved by Kelley Parker in College Station, Texas, on June 10, 2012.[3]

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References[]

  1. ^ Wise, Debra (2003). Great Big Book of Children's Games. McGraw-Hill Education. pp. 111–112. ISBN 9780071422468.
  2. ^ Wulf, Steve (June 9, 2009). ESPN: The Mighty Book of Sports Knowledge. Random House Publishing Group. pp. 164–165. ISBN 9780345511775.
  3. ^ Claxton, Stuart (January 31, 2013). "Super Bowl XLVII: Will Baltimore Ravens v San Francisco 49ers break any records?". Guinness Book of World Records. Archived from the original on November 7, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2021.

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