Fantasy football (board games)
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Fantasy football is a genre of board game or wargame which normally involves two teams of fantasy races (such as elves, dwarves or orcs) competing in an extremely violent variant of American football
. Violent future sports such as Rollerball
may also be classified as fantasy football. However, this is less likely. Often the only resemblance to American football for many fantasy football games is to get the ball into an end zone or goal, but these games still fall under the fantasy football genre.
The most famous of fantasy football games is Games Workshop's Blood Bowl
. Other examples include Elfball and Deathball, both available to download for free from the manufacturers' websites.
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
. Violent future sports such as Rollerball
Rollerball (1975 film)
Rollerball is a 1975 American dystopian fiction film directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay by William Harrison, who adapted his own short story "Roller Ball Murder", which first appeared in 1973 in Esquire magazine.-The Game:...
may also be classified as fantasy football. However, this is less likely. Often the only resemblance to American football for many fantasy football games is to get the ball into an end zone or goal, but these games still fall under the fantasy football genre.
The most famous of fantasy football games is Games Workshop's Blood Bowl
Blood Bowl
Blood Bowl is a Fantasy Football game created by Jervis Johnson for the British games company Games Workshop as a parody of American Football. The game was first released in 1987 and has been re-released in new editions since...
. Other examples include Elfball and Deathball, both available to download for free from the manufacturers' websites.