The thing about pretty much any pre-Atari, board-game recreation of football for us stats and records geeks was figuring out a practical, believable solitaire version. The likelihood of having a sibling or next-door neighbor who was equally as mesmerized by the minutiae and had the patience to pile up game after game, season after season of handwritten game records was almost nil. This meant that, if you sought to recreate a league in decades of depth, you quickly realized that you were pretty much on your own.
(The ongoing ramifications of this realization for a 10- to 15-year-old boy is a topic to be tucked away for pondering. For the moment, we're just going to talk about football board games.)
Relative to its predecessors and contemporaries, NFL Strategy leant itself to such a pursuit pretty elegantly.
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