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You're the Coach
Football fans call the play in new board game
by Zach Smith | zsmith@ruralmissouri.coop
plays to try and outsmart their opponent. Gameplay involves selecting plays and rolling dice, which determine the
probability of each play's success or failure. All are basic
f you're guilty of being a Monday morning quarterback
strategies any high school football player would recognize,
after Sunday's big game, you're in good company -
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and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Raymondville
add modern strategies such as air raid offense and the
football fan Michael Wray Jr. has been considering starun-pass option in an updated edition. Every down comes
tistics, questioning bad calls and celebrating game-winning
with an instant replay via another dice roll, which deplays every day of the week for almost 40 years. For him,
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it wasn't time wasted but rather perfected on paper in the
down to an embarrassing fumble.
form of You're the Coach, which Michael dubs " the ultimate
" It's there to help you visualize what happens on the
football board game. "
play, " Michael says of the entertainment factors listed on
" When coaches play it their eyes pop out of their heads, "
the board's bleachers, " because a person's mind is way
Michael says. " It's pretty overwhelming. "
stronger than a video game. "
The game's origins date to the fall of 1982. Michael was
For the stats-oriented fan like Michael, there are muldoing a homework assignment, watching Monday Night
tiple levels of additional detail available. Players in a college
Football and idly playing with a set of dice when inspiration
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struck. " Once I realized I could come up with results for the
yardage on successful plays. But beware the fatigue factor,
offense and defense, I was up for hours, " Michael recalls.
which may force a substitution if your star players run out
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of gas or get injured. Everything from the weather to the
A football fanatic in Bedford, Virginia, Michael went out
crowd can be determined from a dice roll, adding troublefor the Liberty Minutemen the next school year, playing on
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the defensive line through his high school career. Growing
coach grief over a botched play. Fans of role-playing games
up in his hometown - a community memorialized for havsuch as Dungeons & Dragons will enjoy the ability to
ing lost proportionally the most U.S. soldiers on
create an entire roster of players from scratch.
D-Day - had another effect on Michael's future.
If you're truly going to play the game the way the
He served in both the Army and Navy and never
inventor intended, then you'd better be prepared
quit playing or tweaking his invention. His milifor some real world penalties as well. Throw an inWDU\H[SHULHQFHLVUHÁHFWHGLQVRPHRIWKHJDPH·V
terception? Get ready to run in place to simulate
material, which pays tribute to fallen veterans and
chasing down your turnover. Lose the game and
former football players. Michael had plenty of opRaymondville
you're looking at two minutes of all-out situps.
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diers and sailors. He even played his commanding
tests, " Michael adds. " It's also optional, but the
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cool thing about it is it keeps you involved. "
" I took it easy on him though, because I didn't want him
With some help from Rolla-based Scotts Printing, Miin a bad mood, " Michael says with a laugh. " It was 9-8 at
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