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Hut…Hut…Like it’s Game Time - The NFL Football is Coming to Your Party!

“With 32 teams spread throughout the nation, the NFL is everywhere. Founded in 1920, this relative newcomer is now the most watched professional sport in America. So gather some snacks, call your friends and sit back to watch the spectacle unfold on the gridiron. To keep even the most casual fan entertained, try adding these NFL themed games to your party.

Football Square Off
This fun football game is sure to keep everyone mindful of the score no matter which teams are playing. Before your guests’ arrival, draw a ten by ten grid on a large piece of pasteboard or paper. As your guests arrive, have them select one of the one hundred squares and write their name or initials in that square. If necessary to fill the one hundred squares, each guest may fill in more than one square. When the grid is full, randomly assign numbers zero through nine at the top of the columns and to the left of the rows. At the top, write “Home.” Write “Away” to the left of the rows. At the end of each quarter, a winner will be determined. To do this, take the last digit of the home team’s score. This is the winning column. The last digit of the visiting team’s score is the winning row. Where the winning row and column meet is the winner for that quarter! Have some football themed party favors or gifts on hand to give to your winner. For more fun, consider a silly team hat or shirt to wear until the next winner is selected. To spice things up, consider setting a timer to determine winners rather than at the end of quarters so that guests are not aware of when the next selection will be!

Find a Seat!
This fun, football inspired game can be played even while the big football game is still on! Seat your guests in straight rows in front of the television to watch the game. Now have your guests stand up. As long as the ball is not in play, they should move to their right towards the end of their row. When they reach the end of their row, they must run around to the left end of the row behind them. The person exiting the right end of the last row must then move to the left end of the front row. However, as good fans, they must be in their seats when the ball is snapped. When the ball is down again, they must get up and continue moving. This time, remove one of the seats. When the ball is snapped, one fan is left without a seat and “thrown out of the stadium.” The game continues until only one fan is seated in front of the big game.

With games on Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays; football is fast becoming America’s favorite sport. This game is best watched with other fans, though. So, call your friends, stock up on snacks and make your party a real touchdown with these NFL themed party games.

Ohio State v. Florida - The BCS Got it Right

Much of the country is in the midst of the first real cold snap of the season. But you’d never know it from the hot air coming out of Michigan. Lots of upset people blowing a lot of steam over nothing.

The final computer and human rankings were thrown into the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) cauldron and low and behold a live Gator was pulled out. By the way, it was the human voters who saved the day because the BCS computers had the Gators and Wolverines dead even.

I don’t know what the computers were thinking, but anyone who saw Florida come from behind to beat Arkansas 38-28 Saturday night to win the SEC Championship knows what I’m talking about. What a thrilling game? Florida showed its tremendous team speed, talent, and ability to make big plays when it needed to. Talk about going for it? How about that 4th and 10 fake punt — from its own 15 yard line while trailing in the 3rd quarter? That takes guts! That was the play that earned the Gators a trip to the National Championship game to face the Buckeyes on January 8th in Glendale, Arizona.

Florida is a conference champion with a 12-1 record. Michigan is the runner-up in its conference with an 11-1 record. It’s difficult to understand how anyone could possibly think a second place team (with one less victory) should go to the National Championship game over all the other conference champions.

And we are not talking about a dominating conference in the Big-10. I mean, nothing against the Big 10, it’s a fine conference. But it is clearly no SEC. Just take a gander at the BCS final top 20. 5 teams from the SEC; 3 from the Big-10. How about bowl bids? SEC – 9 bowl bids (most of any conference). Big-10 – 7 bowl bids.

How about non-conference schedule? The SEC was an amazing 41-7 versus non-conference opponents in 2006. This .854 winning percentage blows away any other conference. (Check out www.secsportsfan.com/sec-football.html for more information on SEC football). So, Florida is the Champion of the toughest conference in the nation.

Florida had the toughest schedule in the nation (opponents winning percentage of .643). The gators had 4 quality wins over Tennessee, LSU, Georgia, and Arkansas. Michigan only had 2 quality wins – Notre Dame and Wisconsin.

How boring it would have been to see Ohio State and Michigan for a second time this season (104th time overall). Instead we have two great conference champions from different regions of the country. Florida and Ohio State will be playing against each other for the first time in history. I can hardly wait.

Certainly the BCS system is flawed. College football needs a playoff. No doubt. With the current system there are always more than two teams at the end of the year that can make a strong case they should be in the National Championship game. Someone always feels jilted.

But, if you have to pick only two teams to play for the National Championship – this year those teams have to be Ohio State and Florida. The only thing I don’t understand is why there is even a controversy. It would have been a disgrace to pick Michigan over Florida. So, at least for this year, the BCS got it right. It was easy choice.