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A TABLETOP FOOTBALL TRADITION

Sports Illustrated Pro Football

Paydirt adaptation · 1981 season · 27 playable teams

1981

THE COACH MAKES THE CALL

A Sunday afternoon.
A tabletop full of possibilities.

Choose from 27 season-specific teams. Call the play, read the defense, and watch the special dice tell the story.

Uses later Paydirt basic rules and community-transcribed 1981 charts. The appearance follows your vintage reference set.

Set the table

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1981 season · Avalon Hill basic rules · PC Paydirt chart data

Home crowd cheers for the home team and jeers at the visiting team.

Rules at this table

Four 15-minute quarters. Event-based clock. Basic rules; no advanced rules, modern options, or home advantage. Ties stand is an explicit table convention because the supplied basic rulebook does not state an overtime procedure.

Team charts are community transcriptions; they have been structurally checked, but not compared cell-by-cell with original cards.

CONCEALED COACHING CALL

Pass the device

The previous coach’s selection is covered. Hand the screen to the next coach before continuing.

Play / Action Charts

+ green: gain · − red: loss · ■ black: incomplete · ○ cream: no change · ⚑ yellow: penalty. Parentheses mean a priority result. Outlined cells were used in the latest play.

At the coaching table

Table settings

Home crowd cheers for the home team and jeers at the visiting team.

Game announcements are on by default: kickoff and punt distances with return yards, down and yards to go, penalty and turnover team names, quarter changes, the final result, the 2 minute warning, and timeouts with the team name. Full play summaries are optional. Speech uses your browser’s available voice while you play.

Online Multiplayer

Two coaches, two devices. You coach one team; your friend coaches the other.

Home crowd cheers for the home team and jeers at the visiting team.

Online only. Rolls your offense or defense dice after calls are locked, your punt or field-goal dice, and your extra points. Your opponent chooses separately. Play calls, kickoff and return choices, penalties, and Continue stay manual. Saved in this browser; you can change it anytime here.

Create a game

Join a friend

Both coaches mark ready before playing. Games save on the server. This browser keeps your private seat credential so you can refresh or return later. Private browsing, clearing site data, or changing browsers/devices can lose your seat. A room code cannot reclaim an occupied seat. Reconnect entered room uses the code above. Open selected saved game uses only your saved-room selection.

Game statistics

Resume a game

Choose a saved online game above to reconnect your seat, or use Online Multiplayer → Open selected saved game. Keep site data to retain your saves.