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Reveal Entertainment Pizza Box Football Board Game | 
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| Brand: Reveal Entertainment, Inc.
Category: Toy
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $14.65
You Save: $10.30 (41%)
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 4126
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 8 - 99 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 10.7 x 2.5
Model: PBF231
UPC: 850776001004
EAN: 0850776001004
ASIN: B000AM2LO6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Feel like a coach, player and fan all at once | | • | Smack the offence with your defense | | • | High strategy | | • | Fast paced | | • | A must for football lovers |
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Product Description
Pizza Box Football is shaped like a pizza box... and it opens up into a head-to-head football strategy game designed to offer all the intensity of real football in every play. Players unfold the game board (the field) and lay it inside the unfolded pizza box. The cards guide the players as they play and show the players which dice to roll. Players must apply football strategy in order to win (when to run, when to short pass, when to long pass and when to try to fool the other team). Also included are additional plays from the expansion (sold separately) that extend the offensive strategy to include draws, screen passes and play-action passes and add run blitzes, route jumps and QB blitzes for the defense. These plays work with the existing PBF game. (The full expansion features 32 teams with different strengths on offense and on defense.) Pizza Box Football lets players feel like a coach, a player and a fan all at once. Its robust, statistically accurate play satisfies even the most demanding football fanatic while remaining accessible enough for the younger or casual fan. Four game options let opponents play for 5 minutes or an hour, they decide. Contents: 1 game board, 5 play cards, 13 color pegs, 13 dice, 1 expansion game preview card, 1 instruction booklet, 1 stat sheet tablet. For 1 or 2 players (solitaire rules available at www.PizzaBoxFootball.com). Made in the USA, this game's clever design allows it to pack up into its pizza box, and yet it is sturdy enough for play anywhere.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Need to be older to play this game. September 13, 2008
E. Limbach
My 10 year old son really wanted an electric football game, but I got him this instead based on the reviews. I agree that it is realistic and full of strategy, but it is too much work to learn the game. A willing adult is needed to read the directions over and over. The rules of the game are easy enough for a 10 year old; there are just so many. This will be a great game for him and his friends when he is about 12 and has more patience and appreciation for strategy.
Fun game but limited plays. August 21, 2008
Bryan S. Wendt (Ben Milam)
When I played my son in Playstation 2 Madden, it was no contest. He would kill me every game. This was done by throwing bombs on 4th and 20. I got Pizza Box football to play a game based on realism versus skill of a controller. Although the game has limited plays, I believe it catches the essence of the game. In Pizza Box football, my son the bomb thrower would punt on 4th and 2. We played about 4 games before the football season was over. He and I both love the game. We play a half, then take a break and play the second half. When we played he Superbowl this year, he barely beat me as he was playing he Patriots. He said that wasn't realisic only to be suprised when the patriots loss the real superbowl. It is a game of dice and statistics so go for the bomb and there is a good chance you will not make it. I recommend getting the game. A great father and son game.
cold pizza June 12, 2008
a michael craig (san luis obispo)
We found the game to be more cumbersome than expected. The single sheet of instructions would make it seem fairly easy to get started but for us it wasn't. A bit like algebra homework.
 All the Excitement of Real Football in a Fraction of the Time March 26, 2006
Richard Staats (McLean, VA USA)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
As I write this review, I am serving in Iraq in the military. We do not have a lot of time for games, but Pizza Box Football is a twice weekly ritual. Everyone wants to play, and they talk about specific plays and the choices they made (or could have made) for hours afterward. The mechanics are simple. The defensive player chooses one of three potential defenses by secretly taking up one of three colored dice (red=run, yellow=short pass, and green=long pass). The offensive player announces his choice, and then the defensive player reveals his choice. The rest is done on two easy to read tables. There are special tables for special teams.
This game really captures the excitement of a football game. Players push their luck with running plays at 4th down and 2 yards to go. You see elements of surprise and trying to outguess your opponent.
Buy this game!
For fun & excitement in a tabletop sports game, this is it! January 4, 2006
Bill Eldard (Burke, VA. USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
In this Information Age, where computer sports games can put you right on the field, simulate play from numerous perspectives with marvelous graphics, and internalize all the calculations and outcomes work, it's difficult to imagine a tabletop football game offering much in the way of fun and excitement.
Then along comes Pizza Box Football --- a genuine throwback to the heyday of tabletop games, but with a refreshingly novel set of rules that gets players into play immmediately and with a minimum amount of fuss.
Sure, there's a lot of dice rolling, and reference to charts, but Pizza Box Football makes that all very easy. What makes the game so enjoyable are the defensive and offensive decisions made every down (run, short pass, or long pass), with realistic effects on play results. The offense isn't always stopped just because the defense called the play correctly. Hitting that long pass for a big gain, or running back a punt for a touchdown, or sacking the quarterback on a key down, have all the excitement of a real game. And the game mechanics are so simple, that one doesn't have to be a football fan to enjoy the game. Just follow the 6 steps on the player aid card.
We play with the Pizza Box Football 2005 expansion, which adds more plays for extra strategy (and risk!), such as QB Blitzes, Run Blitzes, Screen Passes, Draw Plays, and Play Action. Go ahead and blitz the QB to check the long pass, but be prepared to give up significant yardage if the offense called a screen pass.
Additionally, the expansion provides 32 pro team charts based on the 2004 performances of the NFL teams. Each team is rated both offensively and defensively in three categories (Run, Short Pass, Long Pass), as well as Mishaps. This allows coaches to play to their teams' strengths and the opponents' weaknesses. The clever designers have even taken the "Michael Vick factor" into account on the Atlanta chart, where "QB Run" can occur on the Short Pass and Long Pass results! And with the Professional Full Game Rules found even in the basic game, coaches can manage the clock, employing 'hurry-up' offense to conserve seconds, or eating up time with running plays, or countering that tactic with timeouts.
The Pizza Box Football website also offers free downloads for Goal Line Defense, Long Bomb Passes, Home Field Advantage, and Solitaire play.
The penalties and other 'dead time' have been removed (although, they statistically have been factored into the play results), and that's a plus in my book! Why simulate the frustration of having that 45-yard pass nullified by an offensive pass interference, or that punt returned for a touchdown whistled back at the 20 for a holding call, or penalizing a team for an "unsportsmanlike end zone celebration"? Thankfully, all that dead time is eliminated from the game!
I think Pizza Box Football is the best tabletop football game on the market, and provides hours of fun!
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