Canadian Armchair Football
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:39 am
Anyone recall this board game from the 1980s? I suppose some on here had it at one point, perhaps still have it.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/257 ... r-football
I was unaware of the existence of this boardgame until just the other day when I spotted the box it comes in from a perhaps unlikely source.
Hill's, a clothing store in the Kerrisdale shopping district near the corner of W Boulevard & 41st Avenue, almost always has some sort of themed window display going on, often of a retro nature and sometimes having little/nothing to do with clothing. The theme of their current display is old board games. Some of the familiar ones of broader appeal that almost anyone old enough to recall the 70s and 80s were there, like Sorry!, Battleship, Operation, Mad Magazine game, etc etc. CAF, an officially licenced CFL product with the old leaf-on-helmet league logo on the box, was also among them. In most cases (CAF is one) they only have the box each game came in hung up on the back wall of the display as opposed to the actual board/game pieces.
There was also another Canadian football board game box in the display; it was a more generic product — not CFL-sanctioned — simply called "Canadian Football" IIRC. The artwork on the box was a very generic live action football scene with no logos on helmets.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/257 ... r-football
I was unaware of the existence of this boardgame until just the other day when I spotted the box it comes in from a perhaps unlikely source.
Hill's, a clothing store in the Kerrisdale shopping district near the corner of W Boulevard & 41st Avenue, almost always has some sort of themed window display going on, often of a retro nature and sometimes having little/nothing to do with clothing. The theme of their current display is old board games. Some of the familiar ones of broader appeal that almost anyone old enough to recall the 70s and 80s were there, like Sorry!, Battleship, Operation, Mad Magazine game, etc etc. CAF, an officially licenced CFL product with the old leaf-on-helmet league logo on the box, was also among them. In most cases (CAF is one) they only have the box each game came in hung up on the back wall of the display as opposed to the actual board/game pieces.
There was also another Canadian football board game box in the display; it was a more generic product — not CFL-sanctioned — simply called "Canadian Football" IIRC. The artwork on the box was a very generic live action football scene with no logos on helmets.
