Fozzy Football Review

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We review Fozzy Football, a dexterity board game that combines american football and shuffleboard. In Fozzy Football, players are trying to score the most points by sliding a puck across the table.

It’s well-known around Board Game Quest Headquarters that I’m the resident expert on professional wrestling (there are a few others who pretend they are, but those people are wrong). As such, I jumped at the chance to review a game sponsored by the band Fozzy, whose frontman is legendary wrestler Chris Jericho. Add to that fact that the game in question is built around the rules and flow of the world’s most popular spot, the beautiful game of futbol and I was incredibly excited about the entire endeavor.

The joke, however, was on me. It turns out that not only does Chris Jericho’s band have nothing to do with the game, but it’s also not a futbol game, but rather a football game. Oh well. Serves me right for not doing more exhaustive research before accepting an assignment.

Fozzy Football is a two-player dexterity game that plays in about a half hour. I have no idea why “Fozzy” is actually part of its name, although I’m now leaning toward some affiliation with the famous Muppet bear. (Clearly, I still have not done any research on the topic.)

Fozzy Football is a dexterity game that, at its most basic, is shuffleboard mixed with American football. The game itself doesn’t have “rules” in the traditional way we understand them here at BGQ and rather features a few general guidelines framed around the common rules of the sport on which it is based. (I won’t go into every rule of football itself because, well, there’s a lot of them.)

In short: players will attempt to advance their position on the field of play and score against