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Geeksplained PodcastBook Club: Geoff Johns' The Flash Part 13 (JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: THE TORNADO'S PATH)THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!
Aeric and Malcolm dig into JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA by Brad Meltzer! Is it the BEST Justice League? It certainly is the HOTTEST!
One Year Later… following the events of INFINITE CRISIS, the world finds itself without a Justice League. So Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman gather to fix that problem. Who will be recruited to join? What does it mean to be the Justice League in this brave new world? And what malevolent force lurks in the shadows, hellbent on destroying this new team before it forms? Find out here!
Covers Justice Le...
2025-11-072h 55
Good Morning Seminole!The State of RestaurantsStart your morning off right with a discussion on: The State of RestaurantsMeet our Panelists:Whitney Dees, Dees Brothers BreweryMellisen Griffin, Don Julio GroupGeoff Giordano, Eggs Up GrillTavo Mendez, Rock & BrewsSponsors: South Seminole Business & StorageWaste ProThe Orlando Law GroupAddition FinancialGenske & Co. AccountingJPMorganChaseWestarp AI + BIGrand Canyon UniversitySeminole Scout by Freebee
2025-09-0537 min
Storycomic Presents: Interviews with Amazing Storytellers and Artists(Episode 429): Drawing Dreams: Inside WagWorks with Geoff & Ashlee Wagner#WagWorks #KidsComics #GraphicNovels #ChildrensBooks #ComicBookCreators #ArtEducation #LiteracyThroughComics #GeoffWagner #AshleeWagner #CreativeCouple #Illustration #AuthorInterview #BookCommunity #ComicCon #FamilyFriendlyComics #ReadWithKids #SupportIndieComics
In an enlightening interview, Geoff and Ashlee Wagner, the creative forces behind WagWorks, share their journey from working as scientists to becoming icons in the children's comic book industry. Their studio, WagWorks, is renowned for its engaging children's comics and graphic novels. During our conversation, the couple delved into their artistic processes, their collaborative dynamics, and their passion for promoting art education and literacy through comics. They also highlighted their participation in the 'Let's Go' anthology by Kids Comics Unite...
2025-04-1726 min
The Nerd BywordEpisode 194 - Superman's Roots: Analyzing His Greatest Origin StoriesIn the latest episode of the Nerd Byword, we embark on a thrilling journey through the origins of one of the most iconic superheroes of all time: Superman. With the excitement building for James Gunn's upcoming Superman movie, we decided to delve deep into three of the most significant origin stories of the Man of Steel and determine which one stands the test of time.
Superman has had numerous origin stories over the years, but we focused on three that have left an indelible mark on the character: Man of Steel by John Byrne and Dick Giordano...
2024-07-161h 15
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 81 | Greatest NFL teams perform with their unique attributes in data-driven Breakaway FootballBreakaway Football is one of the more unique entrants into the world of #tabletopfootball games: stats-based yet card-driven, data-rich yet colorful and accessible.
Not only that, but this game thusfar is based on replicating the key attributes of some of the most iconic teams in history, from 1958 to the present – hence, beginning with normalizing stats across eras. Given alternate names and logos in deference to potential licensing issues, these teams are given unique qualities, like random Bum Rap bad-luck outcomes for the representation of the 1980 Oilers. Your Saints become the Sinners, Packers the Stackers, Steelers the Blacksmiths, Buc...
2024-06-291h 34
UP#224 - Expectativas Summer Game Fest 2024Apoie o UP no Orelo: clique aqui!
Tá chegando a hora, meus amigos. O Summer Game Fest é logo ali e esperamos, como sempre, grandes surpresas, anúncios e, é claro, Geoff Keighley declarando seu amor a Hideo Kojima. Das ausências e presenças confirmadas até especulações, neste episódio nos reunimos para compartilhar as nossas expectativas para o evento que tenta ser a E3 (será que um dia superaremos isso?
O nosso muito obrigado a: Arthur Luiz, Marcus Buzette, Giancarlo, Rafael Ramalli da Silva, Lucas Brum, Rafael Silva, Bruno Giordano Paiva Lima, Regis Fe...
2024-05-291h 18
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 80 | 'MakoJo' Joe Sweeney recalls his APBA Baseball and Football programming, early gaming days and moreAPBA Hall of Famer Joe "MakoJo" Sweeney (Class of 2005) is one of the earliest inductees into the gameco's tight-knit club of honorees His editors, viewers and utilities for #APBABaseball and #APBAFootball are legend. Joe finished 4-6 in our 10-game Ed Zack Memorial tournament on April 6-7, 2024, at the @baseballhall .
We conducted this interview right at the entrance to the exhibits because the playoffs were going on in the learning center and we had to choose the lesser of two evils in terms of background sound. I might attempt to filter the background noise on this later, but for now le...
2024-04-1442 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 79 | Data kings: Sports Info Solutions informs how the big leagues, game companies do business – and busts the Derek Jeter mythSports Info Solutions is one of the foremost players in the game of big data and how it informs not only the game on the field of play but on the tabletop. Mark Simon, content lead for SIS, is a former newspaperman, ESPN staffer and one-time Strat-O-Matic player who run the SIS baseball podcast. Mark shares with us some of the intricate workings of acquiring big-league sports data and the critical job of the SIS video scouts – not a few of whom have gone on to careers with major league teams like the Rays, Orioles and Twins. It is th...
2024-04-1436 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 78 | An APBA Baseball revival in Toronto: Tournament returns in May after 30-year hiatusDan Prizzon and Alan Lipman are bringing back an #APBABaseball tournament to Toronto, where more than 30 years ago a tournament supported heavily by radio legend Bob McCown. Set for May 11, the tournament will be held in one of the community rooms at Alan's condo in the city center. Rules and other particulars remain TBD, so sign up to their event page on Facebook and stay tuned!
1st Annual Toronto APBA Baseball Classic page on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/382191204256678
We can personally vouch for the beauty of Toronto and urge anyone who hasn't been to plan a longer...
2024-04-1433 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 77 | Super Bowl 58 Weekend: 25 Years of a Strat-O-Matic Football Tournament with Director Mike VanDerGooreMike VanDerGoore is the successor to the founders of one of the longest-running #tabletopfootball tournaments: The MDOR Strat-O-Matic Football league based in Bloomington, Illinois.
Mike shares the MDOR's founding, history, methods and future. Renowned SOM Footballer Mike Kane has dutifully kept the tournament's records for 25 years.
MDOR is named for late tournament founders/directors Ron Dickinson and Ron Brammer — otherwise known as Mad Dog and Oregon Ron. The annual MDOR event traces its lineage back to the Lyman Bostock tournament that ran from the 1970s to circa 2000.
Watch action fro...
2024-02-111h 05
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 76 | Super Bowl 58 Weekend: 50 Tabletop Football Games Compared By MananaCon founder Paul SchulzetenbergA gaming conversation with Paul Schulzetenberg, creator of the New Mexico gaming event MananaCon as well a comparison of 50 American football games on @boardgamegeek .
Read Paul's Top 50 football game list:
https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/203491/gridiron-your-table-comparison-50-american-footbal
Learn about Paul's MananaCon event in New Mexico:
https://www.mananacon.com/
YouTube version:
https://youtu.be/dK3sQbjf1Fo
2024-02-1141 min
Tabletop SportCastEpisode 151: Sitting Down with ... Geoff Giordano!This week I had a chance to sit down with Geoff Giordano, also known in our community as the APBA Football Club! We discussed hosting live events and the things that can make an event successful or not. We also discussed the event he will be hosting later this year at the Football Hall of Fame in Canton.
APBA Football Club on Instagram
On Youtube
2013 APBA Football Tournament Playlist
2023 APBA Football Tournament Playlist
2023 Cooperstown Event Playlist
Future Events
2024 Cooperstown...
2024-01-281h 06
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 75 | Grant Fines (49 Sports Games) details what makes his On the Turf and Quick Decks football games tickGrant Fines, creator of 49 Sports Games, traces his game design history back to creating playing cards for Gayle Sayers and Franco Harris. Now, he offers a handful of thoughtfully designed stats-based games including his On the Turf and Quick Decks football — the former a play-by-play game that takes about an hour per game. Grant discusses his game design philosophy and methodology — right down to the reasons behind his choice of dice.
The 2022 NFL season for On the Turf Football is available for preorder now:
https://www.49sportsgames.com/products/49-on-the-turf-football-standard-game
2023-08-2145 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 74 | Designer Max Jamelli on his Lords of Baseball game and teaching children social skills with the Video Game Clubs of AmericaLords of Baseball, a Euro-style game of baseball franchise ownership and management, took father-and-son team Bob and Max Jamelli 12 years to refine and fund via Kickstarter. Max, a high school teacher and former football coach, walks us through the development of LoB, his thoughts on the future of gaming, and his work as national director of tabletop gaming for the Video Game Clubs of America (vgcusa.org).
The seed of the idea for Lords of Baseball came to Max’s father after a trip to the World Boardgaming Championships; inspired by the Cold War game Twilight Struggle, Bob Jamelli be...
2023-08-201h 41
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 73 | Deep dive into predicting APBA Football's 2022 NFL season set with Greg Barath, Mark DerGarabedian, Ray Dunlap and Greg WellsHow will the 2022 APBA Football set be carded? Listen in as three APBA Hall of Famers and one master modifier weigh in with more than 150 years of APBA Football experience in this first-ever APBA Football Super Bowl Pregame show. The road to Super Bowl 57 featured many fine performances — how will they be rendered in APBA Football's next season set?
VIDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/JbVbVtQcRLQ
(Published Feb. 12, 2023)
#superbowl #superbowl57 #chiefs #eagles #mahomes #jalenhurts #apbafootball #apbagames #apbafootballclub #apbafootballhandbook
2023-08-191h 02
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 72 | 1976 Bucs EPIC FINALE — Week 14 vs. Patriots and FINAL REPLAY STATS using vintage APBA Football setThe finale of the 1976 Bucs' season. Original-issue APBA Football cards, 10-year project — fantastic results!
Key stats from our 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers replay (original cards copyright 1977): 54:24
Thank you to S.T. Patrick and Jen Henson for the opportunity to include a summary of the Bicentennial Bucs' saga in Issue No. 11 (February 2023) of Sports Sim Magazine, available at this link:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/mwn-publications/sports-sim-magazine-issue-11/paperback/product-ppre5n.html?q=sports+sim+magazine&page=1&pageSize=4
VIDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/_6FdhXO-aOk
2023-08-181h 07
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 71 | APBA Hall of Famers at first-ever Baseball Hall of Fame tournament: Ray Dunlap, Roy Langhans & Jim Sce (more than 100 years of gaming experience in one sitting)Catching up with APBA Hall of Famers Ray Dunlap (Class of 2016), Roy Langhans (2001) and Jim Sce (2008) between the fast-paced competition at the first-ever tabletop sports gaming tournament at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Ray gives an update on his 2022 Yankees and Aaron Judge, Roy on his 1905 Giants and Christy Mathewson.
Dunlap began playing APBA in 1964, wrote for the APBA Journal for many years, co-created the Suncoast Football League in Tampa in 1979 and served as the Tampa Bay Bucs' official statistician for most of the 1980s. Ray's APBA Football matchup system is a milestone for more...
2023-08-1808 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 70 | Sean Culnan talks Plaay's Second Season, APBA's National Card Football League at Plaay Dot Con 23Imagine my surprise learning that Sean Culnan — who ran the demos of Plaay's Second Season on Friday, July 28, at Plaay Dot Con 23 in Denver — is also a third-year coach in the National Card Football League. The NCFL dates back to 1981 in Ohio and has been using APBA Football since then. Sean made the NCFL Super Bowl last year and has also completed two full-season replays, 1980 and 1984, using Second Season. He shares a few thoughts regarding league play, tabletop coaching and more.
National Card Football League site:
https://jzajack.wixsite.com/ncfl
2023-08-1808 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 69 | NFL Classics: Elway's Colts meet Marino's Steelers for the first time in Baltimore, Week 11, 1983At long last: The long-awaited, much-anticipated quarterback Clash of 1983 — as it should have happened.
One of the all-time “what if” projects featuring John Elway staying with the Baltimore Colts (and perhaps the Colts staying in Baltimore) and facing fellow first-round selection Dan Marino at the helm of a Steelers offense in flux.
Amazingly, Elway and Marino only met three times in their careers: two regular-season games won by the Dolphins (a 30-26 shootout in 1985 and a 31-21 MIami win in 1998) and one postseason blowout, a 38-3 drubbing of the Dolphins by the Broncos en route to their Super Bowl 33 victory...
2023-08-171h 49
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 68 | Games At Sea: Newest regional APBA Baseball tournament is cruise that hits the ocean in January 2024Native New Yorker turned South Floridian Frank Fumai is turning his retirement passion of attending as many APBA tournaments as possible into a new outlet: APBA At Sea, one of the newest regional APBA Baseball tournaments. Fumai, a veteran of APBA tournaments from Chicagoland to Chattanooga and Las Vegas (he's also planning to attend the Kansas City event), initially sought to create a tournament tied to spring training in Florida. When that proved a bit costly, he turned to another passion of his — and the APBA baseball cruise was born.
The four-day cruise will feature a one-day tournament. The th...
2023-08-1720 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 67 | Football tourney and league tips from Strat-O-Matic commissioner and PC game contributor Meredith AdkinsOn the occasion of the seventh Strat-O-Matic football tournament held at CincyCon this year, we talked with tournament director Meredith Adkins about the competition rules, as well how he runs his face-to-face league, the GMVFL. He also discusses two other SOM football tournaments: the Bushwhacker tournament in May and the MDOR in September; both have been running for more than 20 years, he noted.
Adkins shares insights into everything from home-brewed rules to how to keep a league running, as well as the custom roll-up mats they had created to expand on the basic SOM game board.
The 2023 CincyCon tourmament...
2023-08-1735 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 66 | 6 of the most important things you need to know about APBA FootballSome important things to know about the tabletop football game APBA Football — for newcomers and returnees alike.
00:39 No. 1
01:39 No. 2
04:11 No. 3
05:49 No. 4
07:42 No. 5
09:17 No. 6
APBA Football Stadium Shop:
https://apba.stores.yahoo.net/apbafootball.html
VIDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/JcMp4nU3J8E
2023-08-1611 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 65 | 7 reasons people hate board games: A survey by Nick Bentley, president of Underdog Games StudioIn a survey of 440 folks not keen on board games, Nick Bentley found seven recurring themes, which he posted in a string of Tweets on May 4. Mr. Bentley is the president of Underdog Games Studio ( @underdoggames5039 ).
Those themes won’t surprise us aficionados of tabletop sports games and simulations.
All credit for my learning of this survey goes to U.K. board game design expert Chris Backe, founder of @entrogames https://boardgamedesign.beehiiv.com/
The envelope please:
1. Too long to play
2. Too complex to play
3. Board games are boring
4. Board games make people too competitive
5.Board games aren't social
6. Too co...
2023-08-1616 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 64 | World Cup! by Mark Bates: Card-driven action game re-creates soccer's biggest spectacle in 2-3 hoursGame designer Mark Bates (Infinite Pi Games) discusses how he transformed the game World Cup! from creator Shaun Derrick’s original version into an all-card version. World Cup! lets users run an “association” of four teams by playing various soccer actions from a deck that lets managers attack, score and defend. Play the entire World Cup in two to three hours.
Watch the World Cup! playthrough video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKu49tAh3LQ
Buy World Cup! from Infinite Pi Games:
https://www.infinitepigames.com/Sovereign Chess:https://mark-bates.squarespace.com/
*** Use discount code APBA for $20 off the Wo...
2023-08-1635 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 63 | Terry Bradshaw talks Steelers Super Bowls, NFL stars, more on the Ralph Emery music show 1980From June 2 to 6, 1980, #Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw appeared on Ralph Emery's country music radio show. I found the five LP collection of all five shows several years back and have since collected many other five-record sets of Emery's show from that era.
Bradshaw being my No. 1 all-time sports hero, this is one of my most prized possessions. Terry appeared primarily to promote his then-current single "Until You" but talked about his #NFL future and #football starts of the day. He was particularly candid about the challenge of overcoming the #Rams in Super Bowl 14.
I culled the football-related highlights from...
2023-08-1535 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 62 | Tips to start your tabletop sports gaming event: How far we've come since the "APBA Summer of 2013"It has been 10 years since regional APBA tournaments began to appear nationwide. I started talking about creating a tournament at the @ProFootballHOF in summer 2012–and we are posted to hold our second there this August (26th-27th) during induction month and the NFL 2023 preseason.
Here, I talk about a few things to address when starting your own tabletop sports gaming event, from venue selection and acquisition to rules, awards, communications and more.
Read the APBA Blog’s 2015 series of interviews with tournament directors:
https://www.apbablog.com/?s=Organizer+roundtable
ViDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/EUs...
2023-08-1517 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 61 | Custom stadium designer John Sparti helps tabletop sports gamers add flair with replicas of Polo Grounds, Connie Mack, other venuesCommercial designer John Sparti began building custom dice rolling stadiums as an offshoot of his work designing labels for products like Turtle Wax and Simoniz. Since building his first stadium, a replica of Fenway, he has created 265 stadiums for eager gamers (as of June 4, 2023, the date this interview originally posted).
John credits his wife for suggesting he sell his creations on eBay. and his portfolio has expanded from there. He has since sold that first stadium, preferring it be in the hands of a grateful customer. One of the most difficult stadiums he has created is the...
2023-08-1529 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 60 | Minnesota Vikings legends Foreman, Eller, and others connecting with fans thanks to Skol MarketingChuck Foreman. Carl Eller, Stu Voigt. These and many other legendary Minnesota Vikings have been connecting with fans through social media thanks to Ben Theis, founder of @SkolMarketing and Minnesota Sports Legends. Stemming from a work encounter with Foreman, Theis hit upon the idea of working with iconic athletes of his beloved Minnesota Vikings, as well as other state sports legends, to bring them closer to fans through digital media. As Foreman recommended Ben’s services to former teammates, MSL has grown to represent more than two dozen golden-era athletes, who share their experiences through everything from signed merchandise, pers...
2023-08-1423 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 59 | Making a league last 40 years: Professor creates game to replay MLB history from 1903 to present for PA/NJ Baseball LeagueIn 1983, at age 24, Richard Sarkisian decided to replay the history of baseball with a few friends. Almost 40 years later, his PANJ Table Baseball League has replayed every MLB season from 1903 to 2002. And on Sept. 9, he and his 22-team league will meet in King Of Prussia not only to conduct their draft for the next season project but to replay the concluding season's World Series.
Not only does Sarkisian, an accounting professor, run the league — in which each team plays a 72-game schedule over five months — but he created the game the league plays. Sarkisian has crafted his version of a sta...
2023-08-1426 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 58 | Plaay Dot Con 23: An unforgettable tabletop sports game experience — and more to come!Spent the weekend of July 28-30 Rocky Mountain way at Plaay Dot Con 23. First time, unforgettable time — and definitely not the last time. A few thoughts about the great folks and moments from my day--and-a-half there. Guitar in intro is my #Gibson #J200.
Check out further recaps from Tabletop SportsCast and Plaay's blog:
10 headlines from Plaay Dot Con 23:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-cast35/episodes/Episode-126-Top-10-Headlines-of-Plaay-Dot-Con-e27jon3/a-aa6huac
11 observations from Plaay Dot Con 23:
https://plaay.com/blog/eleven-quick-observations-from-plaay-dot-con-23
VIDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/IZ8tNkIVwY4
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2023-08-1230 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 57 | Remembering Ed Zack, his legendary APBA Baseball handbook and his legacy for the tabletop sports communityEdwin Zack is revered in the APBA community for his exhaustive APBA Baseball handbook. After a five-year illness, Zack passed on Aug. 8, 2023. His longtime friend Dan Armstrong notified his closest friends in the APBA community, and the news — and tributes and remembrances — spread quickly.
I interviewed Ed Zack and his collaborator Dan Armstrong in 2012 — the 20th anniversary of the first edition of the Zack handbook. While I published my interview with Ed on our original Facebook page, my interview with Dan is unpublished as yet. Here, I read my complete article detailing my interview with Ed a...
2023-08-1130 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 56 | Gaming in Italy: APBA and SOM league veteran Giorgio Salvadego reports on his playing career, testing for Plaay, collecting and the Euro game sceneLongtime tabletop sports gamer and collector Giorgio Salvadego gives us a rundown on the state of gaming in Italy from his home region of Veneto (think Venice). He has played in numerous leagues, including the Happy Gilmore Golf Association with APBA luminaries Steve Kanehl, Royce Sleighter, George Gerney and John Wright, as well as the APBA International Bowling League. He's even traveled to the U.S. and Canada to play, first visiting Long Island, New York, in 1987 to play in his Strat-O-Matic hockey league; he also attended SOM's 40th anniversary event in Akron Ohio. He visited Vancouver in 1998 to...
2023-08-1158 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 55 | Iconic designer Mike Fitzgerald talks new basketball game, band-building game, Highlights seriesFormer New York City radio personality turned highly successful game designer Mike Fitzgerald has dozens of credits to his name — including the smash Baseball Highlights 2045, as well as Football Highlights 2052, the Mystery Rummy series, and many, many more winners. His latest — and likely last — sports offering, Crunch Time, brings pro basketball to the tabletop in a compact and fun way. He's also working on a new "build a band" game.
Our interview runs the gamut from how overcoming his stutter as a youth helped him begin his stellar radio career, how he began designing games at age 8 and playing APBA B...
2023-08-111h 04![Bossa bom dia [Tilos Rádió podcast]](https://tilos.hu/upload/episode-new/bossa-bom-dia.jpg)
Bossa bom dia [Tilos Rádió podcast]Soft Action01 Baden Powell, Vinicius de Moraes e Quarteto em Cy – Tristeza E Solidão02 Herbie Mann and Baden Powell – Consolação03 Gábor Szabó – Raga Doll04 Baden Powell, Vinicius de Moraes e Quarteto em Cy – Canto De Xangô05 Herbie Mann and Antonio Carlos Jobim – One Note Samba06 Mark Capanni – I Believe in Miracles07 Gábor Szabó – Sophisticated Wheels08 Habib Koité & Bamada – I Ka Barra09 Richard Bona – Ngad’a Ndutu (Widow’s Dance (Celebration of a New Life))10 Habib Koité & Bamada – Cigarette A Bana (Live at Sfinks Festival, 1995)11 Richard Bona – Te Misea (A Scream to Save The Plane...
2023-08-071h 59
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 54 | Art of the Buzz: NEFGM's Chris LeMay previews electric football exhibit Jan. 9-March 3 in TennesseeThe legions of electric football fans have a real treat in store Jan. 9 through March 3 at “Art of the Buzz: The Art of Electric Football” exhibit at Columbia State Pryor Art Gallery in Tennessee. Curated by Chris LeMay founder of the National Electric Football Game Museum in Spring Hill, the event will be held every weekday and by special weekend appointment by contacting LeMay through his website, nefgm.org. From an original 1949 board to various boards and figures, the exhibit also features a competition and presentations by well-known electric footballers like Ron Mango. Tudor Games has also donated a delu...
2023-01-221h 11
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 53 | What makes sports games tick? UK game designer John Gardiner shares his perspectiveSports game designer John Gardiner gives us a U.K. player’s view of the wealth of options on the market — including some of his favorites from Lambourne Games. John’s credits include Replay World of Athletics, Replay World of International Swimming, Replay World of Ice Skating, Triathlon — and even beach volleyball.
His personal website “Replay Field of Dreams” is a repository of decades of sports game experience and perspective. His bottom line for a good sports game: Something that is fun but primarily that is believable.
He also discussed the challenges of designing a good golf game...
2023-01-2228 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 52 | Boxing through the ages: Ronnie Wyatt depicts decades of sweet science in his Pro Boxing Universe Dice GameLongtime gamer Ronnie Wyatt, inspired by first by PC boxing games Lance Haffner TKO and Title Bout II, and later by Roberto Chiavini’s complete Olympics boxing set and his more recent Noble Arts boxing game, has created a new contender in the boxing game realm.
As Wyatt played Chiavini’s game, he wanted to add more “meat to the bone." He remembered that Anthony Crooks, creator of Glory Days Boxing and fellow member of the Title Bout computer championship game forum, created a series of pre-match charts for injuries and outside-the-ring events. Ronnie thought of adding such mec...
2023-01-2242 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 51 | Coming to Cooperstown for 2023: The Baseball Hall of Fame's Craig Muder on 2023 events, Sabermetrics and moreCraig Muder, director of communications for the Baseball of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, previews for us the big events coming up for 2023 (one of which will be the first-ever tabletop sports gaming event, courtesy of the APBA Football Club and our organizing committee).
Our conversation ranges from the unlikeliest baseball hero to the nine legends who could start today and win a World Series, plus some of the museum’s most important artifacts — and how in a newspaper, every night is election night for the sports crew. Plus, insider tips for the first-time visitor to Cooperstown and...
2023-01-2234 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 50 | Football Italiano: Italy's 42nd IFL championship comes to Toledo, Ohio; former Italian Football League quarterback Nick Eyde explainsAmerican football Italian style comes to Toledo, Ohio, on Fourth of July weekend when the 42nd Italian Bowl kicks off — the first time the Italian football championship will be held outside Europe.
American football kicked off in 1980 when the Italian Federation of American Football was charged with promoting the game in Italy. Since then, about 100 flag and tackle teams comprising male and female athletes play American football throughout the country.
Key to bringing the game to Toledo’s Glass Bowl is Michigan-born developer and former Italian Football League quarterback and DB Nick Eyde, who played six yea...
2023-01-2228 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 49 | Pro football history's main event: Professional Football Researchers Association President George Bozeka previews the 2023 Pittsburgh conferenceThe Professional Football Researchers Association, launched in 1979 in Canton, Ohio, is renowned for the depth, breadth and quality of its knowledge base of American football throughout the decades and around the world. President George Bozeka provides an overview of the organization and its member benefits, and also previews the special events planned for the PFRA's annual convention July 27-30 in Pittsburgh.
Join the PFRA ($35 annual): http://profootballresearchers.org/join.html
PFRA podcast: https://theofficialpfrapodcast.sportshistorynetwork.com
Video version: https://youtu.be/tuh-s6QSIts
2023-01-2134 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 48 | Creator Kerry Batts takes us inside his Pro Strategy Football 2023 video sim, talks features to comeStraddling the line between pure arcade fun and statistics-based simulation, PSF’s latest iteration, released Sept. 8, features a wealth of new features and aesthetics. Designer Kerry Batts takes us behind his thought process, the many community contributions to PSF 2023, and some of the key new features he’s cooking up for ’24.
Like many great endeavors, Pro Strategy Football by Batts, a computer programmer, began as a quest to produce something to meet a personal desire — namely a game that he and his brother, Kenneth, could play long distance. Having played wargames with his brother, Kerry visited him one fatef...
2022-10-111h 02
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 47 | APBA modder extraordinaire Mark DerGarabedian shares his methods, discusses projects for football, baseball and golfMark "Xcommish2" DerGarabedian has been a fixture in the APBA modding community for years. He started playing APBA baseball at a friend’s house in Fresno, California, and has stayed hooked since. He's even rolled a few games with his 18-year-old son.
Whether playing football, baseball or golf, he's always juggling multiple projects of various lengths — and employing a wealth of home-brewed tweaks for playability and realism. At the time of this interview — July 24, 2022 — his projects included:
• 1981 Forty Niners
• 1982 MLB tournament (in which low seeds were bouncing high seeds with some frequency)
• A Ben Hogan ATG tour...
2022-10-0745 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 46 | APBA Journal reviewer Anthony Giacobbe Jr. recalls APBA in the '90s, evolution of APBA basketballAnthony Giacobbe Jr. spent a good deal of time writing for the APBA Journal during a pivotal period for the company — the 1990s — and reviewing version 1's and version 2's of PC games. He also worked on the '90s revamp of the basketball game. He even created a Greek Olympics game, pieces and all, for a fourth-grade history class, and later crafted an early computer basketball game — in the era before hard drives on home PCs were common.
Here, we run the gamut, from weighing the differences in face-to-face versus solo gaming, cards and drive versus PC, and w...
2022-09-1851 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 45 | Kings of football data: Alex Bonilla of Pro Football Reference gives us the story behind the statsWe tabletop football gamers use Pro Football Reference with startling frequency, either to prepare for replay projects or get ideas for them. Alex Bonilla is one of the football minds behind PFR.
He joined the Sports Reference family of data brands in March 2018. Since then he's parsed more data than many, and he's got some great tips on how to use the site.
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2022-09-0836 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 44 | Board game coach and designer Joe Slack discusses modern game mechanics and getting your game to marketBoard game designer and educator/coach Joe Slack has worked with more than 4,000 game designers to take the ideas in their heads and turn them into reality. Whether helping games by others off the ground or launching his own titles under the Crazy Like A Box brand, Joe is keen to help game designers hone their vision and game play through a variety of course offerings. His book “The Board Game Designer’s Guide” is a No. 1 best-seller, and he’s got plenty of new work on the immediate horizon:
• In September, he is relaunching his Creation Publication...
2022-09-0146 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 43 | APBA Football Leagues and Personnel Drafts and Matchups: Ray Dunlap explains innovations from his Suncoast Football LeagueAPBA Hall of Famer, former APBA Journal writer and former Tampa Bay Buccaneers statistician Ray Dunlap presents his league-building tips on Aug. 24, 2013, at the APBA Football Club's inaugural tournament at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
Dunlap, co-founder of the Suncoast Football League in Tampa Bay, Florida, in 1979, lays out a wealth of knowledge — from the ideal number of teams in the league to how to keep members active.
Video version: https://youtu.be/MwYLCE6H0pE
2022-08-2831 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 42 | Remembering the AFL with Ange Coniglio, the godfather of American Football League historyFor decades, 86-year-old Ange Coniglio has been perhaps the foremost authority on and advocate for the achievements and legacy of the American Football League. The lifelong Buffalo Bills fan created his AFL website (remembertheafl.com) as an exhaustive repository for all manner of knowledge regarding the league — from the all-time AFL roster and a photo gallery of his personal AFL Hall of Fame to an AFL reading list, a memorabilia gallery, team histories, stats and more. Other AFL researchers point to Ange as the “godfather” of AFL history for his efforts — which have ranged from sending color film of the AFL t...
2022-08-2446 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 41 | More data, more flavor: Brian Haferkamp has a game for every baseball, football and basketball fanHigh-level stats and a flair for the flavor of the game — that's the way designer Brian Haferkamp addresses big-league sports in his baseball, basketball and football games.
Brian, a web developer who grew up in the video era and counts Out of the Park baseball among his inspirations, just released his latest game, Uptempo Basketball, this summer. Beginning with 1985-86 NBA season, he quickly added 1982-83 and 1989-90.
However, despite recapturing those classic NBA seasons, Brian cautions that there was no "golden age" for many contemporary sports fans — and sports game designers — and that perspective likely will...
2022-08-201h 25
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 40 | Gridiron Games 2023: The 2nd APBA Football Club tournament is in the works; learn the format, rules and originsJoin us at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Canton, Ohio, for the second APBA Football Club football-exclusive tournament. Rebooting our first event, held in the legendary APBA summer of 2013, we want to raise the bar on that inaugural event.
Format (tentative thoughts): 1:10
Rules: 8:35
Why the HoF and why in August: 13:18
Cost (tentative): 15:15
Origins of the event: 17:40
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2022-08-1534 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 39 | From APBA to coaching future pros: Retired athletic director Russell Wren credits gaming for his athletics careerRussell R. Wren is the latest representative of a significant group that is the future of tabletop sports gaming: retirees who return to the games that fueled their youth.
Wren, who grew up not far from APBA’s original headquarters in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, retired as athletic director of the Great Valley School District (the Patriots) before the pandemic. The many players he has coached include NFL pros Nasir Adderley and Matt Schaub.
He has returned to APBA Football and baseball, and even has hit 24-year-old son interested in playing.
Counting APBA Hall of Fam...
2022-08-1534 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 38 | Build your own NFL: Tim Plum and Peter Donis of PT Games developing a PC football game that learnsTim Plum and Peter Donis met on a school bus in seventh grade in 1978 and have been friends and collaborators ever since. Peter introduced Tim to Dungeons and Dragons, and a lifelong friendship and game design partnership was born. Tim, a member of a Statis Pro football league for 28 years, eventually introduced his idea for a football game to Peter. (Tim also played hundreds of Statis Pro baseball games, including ’83 and ’87 Dodger replays).
From their original Hockey Bones and Football Bones franchises has evolved the current portfolio of PT Games offerings, including a basketball game covering NBA, WNBA a...
2022-08-141h 08
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 37 | Preserving Paydirt: Ron Pisarz Jr. mines NFL data to honor the legendary game's legacy with Data-Driven FootballRon Pisarz Jr., like so many of us, fell in love with the classic Sports Illustrated football game Paydirt. It wasn’t until about two decades later that, while honing his chops as a software engineer, he revisited that “gateway game” as an exercise in converting it to digital form — and Data-Driven Football was born.
He began circa 2006-07 by calculating the 2005 and 2006 NFL seasons using play-by-play data. Given the abundance of NFL data these days, he took his analyses “to the nth degree,” writing software to parse that data to hone the simulation’s realism and balancing his th...
2022-08-1243 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 36 | Chicagoland APBA tournament director Rob Spatz shares his tips for running the groundbreaking eventMeet your Chicagoland APBA tournament director Rob Spatz. Taking over the reins of the pack-leading competition from Doug Schuyler not long after it was created during that legendary APBA Summer of 2013, Rob has refined the tournament rules and location as he plays host to folks from 11 states. That's a far from from the original five participants of the inaugural Chicagoland event on July 27, 2013 — and Rob has room to grow the tournament.
Rob graciously shared his tips and tricks for running and sustaining a tournament.
Learn about the theme of the 2023 Chicagoland tournament, to be held Jul...
2022-08-1057 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 35 | 10 ways to bring sports sims into the modern world with Sandlot Stars creator Phillip SchwarzmannPhillip Schwarzmsnn is a Euro-game expert whose time in Finland working for Nokia gave him a deeply immersive experience in the mechanics of those games. But he’s also a former Strat and Statis player who keeps one foot firmly in the world of sports sims (he began playing Out of the Park version 3 in the early 2000s). He’s aiming to bridge the gap between classic sports sims and contemporary games — whose themes run the gamut from the Alhambra to Taverns of Tiefenthal to Wingspan. His concept, Sandlot Stars, immerses players in a colorful, card-driven baseball-themed game for three...
2022-08-081h 13
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 34 | Jack Dolan, creator of the Shoeless Joe APBA Baseball Tournament, shares the ins and outs of his inaugural Sept. 10 eventJack Dolan didn't become a baseball fan until his mid-30s, but his APBA life began in the early '80s during his time stationed in Germany. On Sept. 10, he will host the first Shoeless Joe APBA Baseball Tournament at Fluor Field in Greenville, S.C.
The event cost includes tickets to the minor league Greenville Drive game against the Asheville Tourists that night as well as a tour of the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum. The field is notable for its Fenway Park specs — complete with Green Monster. Jack, who has run APBA's official soccer tournament and att...
2022-07-3139 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 33 | 4th Street Software founder Bryan Aldrich dishes on the daily life of a tabletop sports game creatorBryan Aldrich, creator of 4th Street Software, shares his thoughts on navigating the ins and outs of creating realistic but playable games. His board and computer creations include iterations of football, baseball, basketball and hockey — and he's put some thought into creating a racing game.
At the time we spoke (September 2021*), preorders for the v3 version of 4th Street's hockey game had just gone live. Bryan was also working on numerous projects, including the 1985 football season and 1983 baseball season.
As of July 2022, the company's new computer basketball game is available. But, with five games in four sp...
2022-07-1533 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 32 | Mark Miller ("Jerry Cuan") discusses his many customized enhancements for Fast Drive Football and Replay Baseball, his In The Pocket bowling game — and how to be a sportsmanlike gamerWidely experienced tabletop sports savant Mark Miller, aka Jerry Cuan, shares his varied tastes and takes on a slew of cards-and-dice football, baseball, golf and bowling games. Known for his significant work expanding the experience of Al Wilson’s Fast Drive Football, Mark also has a history of helping Pete Ventura enhance Replay Baseball.
Mark’s creativity in terms of conceiving wild replay projects, as well as his tireless work creating score-allocation charts for FDF, have earned him great respect among the tabletop sports sim community.
Inspired by APBA’s out-of-print bowling game, he also create...
2022-07-0955 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 31 | PFRA's Ken Crippen on his Football Learning Academy and key moments in pro football's evolutionPre-eminent football historian Ken Crippen speaks with us about the most important players and eras in American football, as well as the mission of his Football Learning Academy.
The FLA offers online classes, videos and a blog that illuminates football history and the impact the game on society. "Giving back to retired players in need" is the FLA's mission, and football fans can help by signing up for classes and generally giving them good traffic.
We even got in a little chat about Don Hutson's impact (and the APBA asterisk on his 1941 Packers Great Teams of...
2022-07-0835 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 30 | Spirit of '81: Joe Moffa gives a midseason report on his 1981 NFL season replayQueens native turned Florida resident Joe Moffa is replaying the 1981 NFL season — and his beloved Giants are 0-8! Will he persevere and roll through? How does he stay motivated? What player usage rules is he using? Can anyone beat the Chargers? Get the inside scoop on this exciting replay and dedicated replayer. Chime in with your own '81 season replay experiences, no matter what game you used, in the comments.
2022-07-0224 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 29 | The Game Before the Money: NFL author Michael Jackson shares the stories of NFL's most famed playersRemember the guy who caused the fumble that Minnesota Viking Jim Marshall ran the wrong way against the 49ers in 1964? Michael Jackson sure does. That player would be Bill Butler, one of the many veteran NFL players Jackson has interviewed for his NFL history podcast and blog The Game Before the Money. His book of those interviews is The Game Before the Money: Voices of the Men Who Built the NFL, available at Amazon, Barnes and Nobel and the University of Nebraska Press. His other works include a study of the 1979 Oilers, “Red, White, and Columbia Blue: Chasing the Dre...
2022-06-2651 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 28 | 200 years of APBA experience: 3 APBA Hall of Famers on lifelong friendships, decades of play and tabletop's futureIf you've always wanted to attend an APBA convention or tourney (or any board game event) but weren't sure about committing, this interview could change your mind. Two weeks before the annual APBA convention in Alpharetta, Georgia, three APBA Hall of Famers weighed in on the bonds built through board gaming.
One — Pete Simonelli, APBA Hall of Fame 2005 — goes back to the first-ever APBA convention in Philadelphia from June 15-17, 1973. He and Hall of Famer John Cochrane (2009) crossed paths at the third APBA convention in 1976. Hall of Famer Dr. Rebecca Peterson joined the fold years later but quickl...
2022-06-251h 32
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 27 | NFL in the 1970s: Historian/author Joe Zagorski discusses some of the decade's unforgettable momentsThe history of the NFL was shaped in no small part by the legendary players and plays of the 1970s. Pro football historian Joe Zagorski, author of "The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Important Decade, " reminisces with us about some of the highlights of that pivotal decade and his published and upcoming books about icons like Willie Lanier, Larry Little and others. For tabletop sports simmers, this book could prove to be an indispensable part of one's collection — an essential resource for pre-play preparation. Joe's Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IIFTQDK/ref=dbs_a...
2022-06-1848 min
This Week In APBA Anchor previewTWIA Episode #111 with special guest, Geoff Giordano.Check out the latest episode of This Week in APBA as I chat with one of the “football guys”, Geoff Giordano. Geoff has been a long time fan and promoter of the APBA FOOTBALL game. We talk about that and his newest project, the APBA Football Club Podcast.
2022-06-1844 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 26 | A deep dive into tabletop sports gaming with S.T. Patrick of Sports Sim Magazine and The Squared CircleGeek out on tabletop sports games with me and S.T. Patrick — founder of Sports Sim Magazine, one of the designers of the deeply researched wrestling sim The Squared Circle and creator of STP Radio*. Our conversation runs the gamut from topics including:
• Whether this is the golden age of sports gaming, and the wealth of sports sim games available today
• The lineup of the March 2022 issue of SSM
• The 35-year journey to the current version of The Squared Circle — and what’s next for the game
• Upcoming radio shows he and his wife wil...
2022-05-072h 00
Success IQDan Giordano: Sales Coach & PodcasterAfter creating beautiful homes for the affluent for 20 years, Daniel had a defining moment when his first child was born. He had to figure out how to be the father and husband that was going to be home with his family.Now, Daniel helps people worldwide clarify how to transform their businesses and impact more lives using the power of the internet. He is passionate about influencing the Influencers and inspiring world-changers to get off the sidelines and live life ALL IN.
2022-02-1650 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 25 | NFL researcher John Turney on setting the NFL sack record straight for the 1960 to 1981 seasonsJohn Turney and Nick Webster made headlines this summer with the release of their sack-crediting statistics for the 1960 to 1981 NFL seasons. Their exhaustive research — including countless hours of viewing of priceless NFL game film — yielded many surprising results and long-overdue credit for iconic NFL stars like Deacon Jones, Jack Younglood, Alan Page, Al "Bubba" Baker and the Steel Curtain. John gives a behind-the-scenes look into the leg work that produced these eye-opening sack results, as well as his take on:
• The usage of 3-4, nickel and dime defenses throughout the eras
• The "what ifs" of the NFL vs. t...
2021-09-2355 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 24 | Why we still love the the '76 Buccaneers. Super Bowl champ Pat Toomay (Cowboys, Raiders, Bills) recalls the 0-14 season and moreThe 1976 Buccaneers might have had one of the more memorably bad seasons in professional sports, but we tabletop sports simulation gamers are positively in love with that team. You can count on one thing when a new tabletop cards-and-dice gridiron game emerges: Folks will want cards for the 1976 season and the 1976 Buccaneers.
But while those games give a glimpse into what that season might have been like to experience first-hand, Super Bowl champion Pat Toomay has the final word on what that campaign felt like in the flesh. Pat, who joined the Dallas Cowboys in 1970 —the year of t...
2021-09-191h 34
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 23 | Boxing game legend Jim Trunzo on the greatest fighters and how he keeps the Title Bout series aliveBoard game boxing fans are no stranger to the work of the brothers Jim and Tom Trunzo, who 42 years ago launched their TItle Bout championship boxing through Avalon Hill. Jim Trunzo discusses some of the game's many ups and downs through the decades — including the current economics and realities of board game conception, manufacturing, distribution and marketing. Through it all, his passion for keeping the game alive endures undiminished, as his Title Bout II attests. Here, Jim pulls no punches in discussing the best — and not so great — fighters to ever lace up gloves, but does pull back the curtai...
2021-09-141h 19
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 22 | A very deep dive into APBA Football card calculation, game play, stats generation and NFL history with guru Mark ZarbWith his custom APBA Football sets and longtime card performance collaboration with APBA Hall of Famer Greg Barath, Mark Zarb has cemented his reputation as one of the zen masters of the game. Buckle in for this in-depth look at all phases of the game, from QB sack numbers and scramble refinements to calculating those 9-7 teams, acceptable variances among offensive and defensive squads, era-to-era play, and much more.
Nine years ago, we interviewed Mark and Greg as part of our early efforts to bring the deep thinkers of APBA Football out of the Delphi forums and...
2021-09-121h 45
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 21 | Down Under legend of the game Phil Molloy on how to use some of his many APBA Football innovationsAustralia's Phil Molloy a structural engineer, is an elite member of the APBA Football community who has shared numerous innovations to refine the game for at least the past 10 years. I first interviewed him in April 2013 for our APBA ICONS series and in late 2014 pitched my 2007 Patriots against his 1993 Niners in the global Skype tournament assembled by the National Card Football League. Phil talks at length here about his inventions for APBA Football, including:
• Read option
• Timing method with two minutes to go in the half/game
• Revamped penalty chart
• Dice-range calculator
APBA Hall...
2021-09-1150 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 20 | What happened to the 2001 season of APBA Football?On Sept. 10, 2001, I was on what turned out to be a very brief first visit to Montreal. Many of us certainly remember watching the Giants and Broncos Monday Night Football game, in which Ed McCaffrey suffered a season-ending broken leg in the third quarter after catching six passes for 94 yards and a touchdown. At the time, APBA was still in a period of financial uncertainty, reflected in numerous articles in the APBA Journal. We look back to that time and the season sets from that difficult 2000-2002 period — including the "mystery" of the 2001 season set.
UPDATE: The off...
2021-09-1022 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 19 | Independent Football League commish John Storer on his Bengals replays plus baseball, basketball & boxing projectsJohn Storer runs one of those low-key sports gaming blogs that belies its wealth of valuable information. His broad range of gaming experience includes numerous Cincinnati Bengals relays with the "Big 3" of tabletop gridiron games (APBA, Strat-O-Matic and Statis Pro, although one might include Paydirt in a "Big 4" — and yes, John owns the Sports Illustrated game with the Steelers-Dolphins cover photo from the 1972 AFC championship game). Of course, John is also an avid baseball gamer (APBA master and Strato Super-Advanced), and he's even tackled APBA basketball and the Foreman-Lyle match with Title Bout (and he unveils a rare copy of...
2021-09-101h 13
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 18 | 4 members of the longest-running APBA Football league and its offshoot share decades of drafting, playing and stat-keeping experienceThe Ohio-based, nationwide National Card Football League — and its sister venture the American Card Football League — share details of their methods for drafting, playing, stat-keeping and more in the inaugural episode of GamePlan with the APBA Football Club.
The NCFL, founded as a face-to-face league in Columbus, Ohio, in 1981, is now believed to be the longest-running APBA Football-only league. We caught up with Jerry Zajack, Bobby Porter, Brad Morgan and newest member Greg Barath (APBA Hall of Fame 2016) after some exciting outcomes in the ACFL's Week 3 action.
The ACFL and NCFL both employ an innovative, easy-to-use...
2021-08-291h 23
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 17 | Eric Simon's detailed analysis of APBA Saddle Racing and his take on improving this out-of-print classicEric Simon's family has had a long relationship with horse racing, which makes his obsession with the out-of-print APBA Saddle Racing game mosrt understandable. So diligently does he assess the statistical and timing accuracy of horses and jockeys that he put his calculations to the test by rating 800 horses at a time. He has created horses, free of charge, for the 2018 racing season and 2020 Breeders Cup. Here, Eric shares insider's knowledge of the sport of horse racing and how best to depict those realities on the tabletop track.
Resources and games discussed in this episode:
2020...
2021-08-2845 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 16 | Veteran designer Brien Martin on reviving SherCo baseball, ins/outs of various tabletop sports gamesVeteran game designer Brien Martin rhapsodizes about his wealth of playing experience across all tabletop sports. Fans of recently released Fast Drive Football have no doubt noted Brien's World Football League replay with his homebrewed cards. He's also thinking creating a fictitious "living league" for the game.
Of his many credits, one of Brien's crowning achievements is partnering with Steve LeShay, creator of SherCo Grand Slam Baseball, to revive that classic in 2016 (the game celebrated its 50th anniversary two years later). Brien redesigned the rule books and stadiums and created decades worth of new seasons.
Bri...
2021-08-171h 48
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 15 | Friday Night Legends co-creator Chris Doelle on the makings of a varsity football tabletop gemChris Doelle and Michael Wright, friends and football teammates since junior high school in Texas, turned their love of the game into Friday Night Legends, a team-based representation of high school football across the country and the decades. Launched on Kickstarter in November 2017, FNL is an outgrowth of the pair's Lone Star Gridiron website, dedicated exclusively to curating Texas high school football news, history and stats. With more than 800 high school teams going back to 1907 carded, FNL has built a strong following, evidenced by repeated requests for new teams (they make a great high school reunion gift). FNL's sister...
2021-08-1239 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 14 | APBA brother Beau Lofgren recovering after harrowing rescue attempt; gaming is helping pass the timeMinnesota grade school teacher Beau Lofgren is a relative newcomer to APBA at age 40 (he turns 41 on Sunday, Aug. 8). He's recovering after helping save a child from drowning on a recent field trip and was kind enough to share some thoughts on his progress in this Aug. 5 interview. His wife’s uncle got Beau on the APBA track with the 1987 master baseball game. Lofgren, a teacher of third- and sixth-graders, uses board games to teach his students as well as his own children. He and his older brother, Ben, (a math teacher) play APBA as frequently as they can — with...
2021-08-121h 05
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 13 | Multisport APBA gamer and tourney creator Ron Emch guides you on optimizing the game of APBA golfRon Emch has built a Hall of Fame-level resume of APBA gaming. From recording dozens of golf tutorial videos to creating the Glass City baseball tournament in Toledo, Ron is building the kind of APBA legacy that puts him in the company of the pantheon of greats. Here, he guides you on how to optimize your experience with the game of APBA golf and details his favorite courses, players and rounds, Of course, we also talk about the spectrum of APBA games; Ron has participated in the official APBA soccer and hockey tournaments. And, he's a fan of sll...
2021-08-0450 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 12 | Fast Drive Football creator Al Wilson on his creative process, gameplay, influences and NFL memoriesIn the past week, Al Wilson's Fast Drive Football tabletop board game has electrified the gridiron gaming community. Playing in about 15 to 20 minutes per game, FDF is more word-based than numbers driven — with team cards using descriptive words like "prolific" (1969 Vikings offense), "inept," "meek" and "undisciplined" (1976 Buccaneers).
Derived from Plaay's mechanics, FDF simulates games drive by drive, true to its name. It's easily one of the most exciting additions to tabletop football gaming. Community luminaries like Dave Gardner, Jason Graham and Steve Tower have already posted numerous videos documenting game play. Al's FDF Facebook group is at 151 membe...
2021-07-2956 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 11 | Lancaster APBA tourney creator Dale Shreiner on the origin of his event and tips for smooth gamingTeacher Dale Shreiner discusses the origins of his Lancaster, Pa., APBA tournament. Of course, Lancaster is the original home of APBA Games, launched in 1951 by J. Richard Seitz. Shreiner, 40, is a relative newcomer to APBA, who began playing APBA baseball in earnest in 2016 after being introduced to the game by a former workplace manager. Starting his tournament a year later, Shreiner has learned a few things about running a fledgling tournament. This year's event will be the fourth in five years; the 2020 event was canceled during the pandemic.
As of July 8, Dale still has four slots open f...
2021-07-0826 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 10 | Talking 1972, '76, '80 and Great Teams of the Past APBA Football replays with Gilles ThibaultGilles Thibault and Hall of Famer Greg Wells had been on quite a replay tear when we reconnected. While the rest of the world turned to Zoom for work, more gamers turned to Zoom — as did Thibault and Wells, who pulled off a string of impressive replays. Gilles details the results of their 1972, 1976, 1980 and GTOP (Greatest Teams of the Past). Yep, another video filled with vintage APBA cards (although Gilles and Greg used the current 1976 season set and GTOPs for their projects). Gilles and Greg had been playing Sunday morning football games at the annual APBA conventions for several year...
2021-06-261h 24
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 9 | Football free-for-all with game designer Jason Graham of Flash sports simulations: How football and the games that replicate it have evolvedFlash Games creator Jason Graham goes into great depth about his game designs, the method and intent behind the probability-based system for his pro football game, and his must-read list of books that provide real insights into the game of football and the realities of comparing athletes across eras. Jason is very "open source" about his game design and goes out of his way not only to explain how to play his football, boxing, basketball and racing games but to give folks access to them free of charge for their evaluation.
Flash Sports on YouTube: https://www...
2021-06-222h 05
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 8 | Ray Dunlap, 2016 APBA HoF'er, on his football innovations, creating the Suncoast Football League, Super Bowl preplays and moreWe first reached out to Ray Dunlap in 2012 — a "gray area" period in APBA history when the company HQ had moved to Alpharetta, Ga., from Lancaster, Pa., and the annual convention was a fan-held event. As the fates would have it, Ray was living in Atlanta when the company moved. Ray, co-creator of the Suncoast Football League in Tampa in 1979, has been playing APBA since 1966 (great year), wrote for the APBA Journal and also served as Tampa Bay Bucs' statistician for five years. His innovations, including a player matchup system and all-original results boards, are legend.
Ray is al...
2021-06-1740 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 7 | Howie Mooney on sports journalism, reading APBA cards, his baseball and bowling projects and his custom envelopesHowie Mooney is a man of many talents and a "fired up" APBA Fan. His Instagram bio puts it succinctly: "A dad. A guy. A goalie. One of 2 hosts of The Sports Lunatics sports history podcasts. Also a contributing writer to the firedupnetwork.ca website." One winter day in school in the early 1970s, his teacher brought in an APBA baseball game, and Mooney was hooked. We discuss everything from his work as a sports journalist and the evolution of sports to his replay projects (including his 1978 bowling tournament), his custom envelopes and the joy of reading the APBA...
2021-06-1646 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 6 | 2019 APBA Hall of Famer Woody Stundenmund on 60-plus years of playing and collecting APBAWoody Studenmund began playing APBA in 1958, cofounded the North East League in 1960, and remains intensely active in the game. His collection of artifacts owned by company founder J. Richard Seitz is legendary, and his "APBA-tite" for the game undiminished. He also wrote for the APBA Journal beginning in the early 1970s.
Woody is a professor at Occidental College in Southern California, where he teaches applied econometrics and managerial economics.
APBA Hall of Fame roster: http://apbagames.com/hall-of-fame
2021-06-1647 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 5 | Steve Stein discusses his APBA card computer, good game design, 1896 baseball project, custom setsSteve Stein, creator of Compuduck Sports Software (Steve's APBA Card Computer) joins us for a far-reaching discussion what constitutes accurate and enjoyable sports simulations — and how the two concepts don't always mesh into a good game.
Steve's APBA Card Computer: https://compuducksports.com/
Minden Cricket: https://www.mindencricket.com/
2021-06-1643 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 4 | APBA Football veteran Bobby Porter on playing in 3 leagues, FTF strategy, best way to use playersAPBA Football veteran Bobby Porter has performed a rare hat trick, playing as a member of three APBA Football leagues: Florida's Suncoast Football League, founded in 1979; Ohio's National Card Football League, created in 1981; and the NCFL offshoot American Card Football League. Porter details his draft and face-to-face experiences, the SFL's unique results boards, optimal player usage in FTF league competition, and his custom football fields. He also helps design and maintain the league's websites. And, he goes on the record to nominate Jerry Zajack for the APBA Hall of Fame (and we heartily second that motion). Stay tuned to...
2021-06-1651 min
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp 3 | An APBA Life: Bill Lilley, the ’72 Fins, ’68 'Boys, tourney play and brushes with sports celebsBill Lilley’s recent write-ups of his 1972 Dolphins replay (reissue season calculated for master boards) deftly recapture the magic of those colorful ’70s APBA football brochures. Small wonder — turns out he’s a newsman like myself. Now living in Thailand, he hails from near Canton, Ohio (and just missed out on our inaugural 2013 conference at the Pro Football Hall of Fame). In our deep-dive interview, we talk about the Seitz, Light and Herson eras, the beauty of the game engine driving the numbers on the cards, his experiences almost winning the official APBA baseball tourney and, of course, his start in...
2021-06-161h 14
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp. 2 | A deep dive into APBA Football method and history with replay god — and now LEAGUE COACH — Greg BarathAPBA Hall of Famer Greg Barath is perhaps the most prolific APBA Football replayer the game has known. Continually refining his method, Greg has been publishing his methods, results and tutorials for more than 15 years on his blog, YouTube and Delphi's Between The Lines forum. Having joined the ranks of the most illustrious names in APBA in 2016's HoF induction ceremony, Barath is tackling a new challenge: Coaching the New England Patriots for the 2021 season of Ohio's venerable National Card Football League. At the time of this interview, the league had just completed its draft, leading Greg to begin co...
2021-06-161h 19
APBA Football Club Podcast NetworkEp. 1 | State of APBA Football: Our mission; promotion, evolution of the game; the basic vs. master questionAfter a hiatus of several years, the original APBA Football Club is back in action. Launched on Facebook in January 2011 by Geoff Giordano, the AFC serves not only the APBA Football community but the APBA community at large with a combination of playing tips, game history, interviews with leading voices of Hall of Famers and longtime players and other unique content geared to promoting the game and its current and new fans. Here, we offer our take on the game of APBA Football in our absence of roughly five years.
In this inaugural episode, we talk about...
2021-06-151h 01
All In with Daniel Giordano60: Performance and mindset coach, Geoff NicholsonIn this episode of The All-In Podcast, Daniel speaks with Geoff Nicholson, a performance and mindset coach who overcame a significant health struggle to become a successful entrepreneur.
At age 16, Geoff left school to join the workforce. After bouncing around, he found himself at his future father-in-law’s printing company. It was there he began to see success, as well as an increasing confidence in himself. But things came crashing down.
An untimely illness left him wheelchair-bound and sleeping 20 hours a day. As a young father, he couldn’t imagine becoming a burden to his wife...
2021-06-1522 min
Around the LensAtL Photo Flip - Episode 1 - Geoff LivingstonAround the Lens and 10 Frames Per Second are proud to present a new joint effort focused on discussing everything related to photo books called Photo Flip. Each month we'll bring on new authors, collectors and industry insiders to discuss photo books and the news surround them. The show is hosted by long time Around the Lens guest Joe M. Giordano, his co-host from their show 10 Frames Per Second Elena Volkova, and AtL founder and host, David J. Murphy.
On this, the first, episode of their new show, they welcome Geoff Livingston, a part-time street and event photographer...
2021-02-1544 min
Improversation#38 - The Winners CircleThe Dallas Stars became the first of two teams to book their ticket into the Stanley Cup Final. The Stars went through some rough stretches the last couple of seasons with players being called out and a coaching change, but here they are. Will the Lightning join them for Game 1 Thursday, or will the Islanders keep it going?Now that Vegas is knocked out, what do we make of the goaltending situation? Lehner didn’t look great in the WCF, but there’s apparently a five-year deal waiting for him. What’s the move for the Golden Knights? Does The Flower...
2020-09-161h 11
ReReading WolfeBonus: John Crowley talks about Hamlet's Mill and a little bit about WolfeThe John Crowley Interview
John Crowley has never read a whole Gene Wolfe story but he's read Hamlet's Mill and that is the only 20th-century work included in the Chrasmological Writings (The Book of the Long/Short Sun). So we talked to him about that and about related works.
Then Craig and James talk about why James is so obsessed with the Wolfe/Hamlet's Mill connection.
Links:
Hamlet's Mill - Wikipedia
Hamlet's Mill - Amazon
Little Big by John Crowely - Amazon
Aegypt franchise by John Crowley - Amazon
A Fish Dinner in...
2020-09-071h 20
Advanced Manufacturing NowHow Employees' Finances Affect Manufacturing BusinessesFinancial stresses on your manufacturing employees can hinder their productivity. In this podcast, Geoff Giordano, contributing editor for Manufacturing Engineering magazine, speaks with Mike Domingos and Marc Howell of Prudential Financial about their latest research into the ripple effect on businesses when employees encounter financial issues. They reveal some ways to tailor your benefits packages to help head off financial emergencies for workers – and preserve your organization's overall financial health.
2019-06-0615 min
Sean & Dave Make MusicGeoff GiordanoMulti-instrumentalist songwriter Geoff Giordano stops in this month to jam and talk about his writing/producing process, his upcoming album Ultrafauna, and his compulsion to keep making music!
Geoff's Fourth World Radio Site Fourth World Radio Facebook
This episode includes:
00:00:00 Sean & Dave Make Music Theme feat. Geoff Giordano (Geoff on guitar, Dave on drums, Sean on flute, bass, and percussion)
00:11:40 Ultrafauna written, recorded, and mixed by Geoff Giordano
00:31:39 Game of Thrones Main Title Theme by Ramin Djawadi (Geoff on guitars, Dave on drums, Sean on flute, bass, and percussion)
00...
2019-05-041h 04
ZonaNegativa PodcastZNPodcast #16 - Aquaman: Cómics y cineLas últimas hojas del calendario del presente 2018 han traido la esperadísima súper-producción de Aquaman en solitario en la gran pantalla, con el actor hawaiano Jason Momoa en la piel (tatuada) de Arthur Curry. Tras una aparición menor en Batman v Superman: El Amanecer de la Justicia (2016) y su papel en el blockbuster Justice League (2017), por fin el Rey de los Siete Mares ha protagonizado su propia película cortesía de Warner Bros. Picures, bajo la dirección de James Wan (Insidious, The Conjuring) con guion del propio Wan y de Geoff Johns, gran conocedor (y valedor...
2018-12-214h 59
Pixel Music Radio ShowPixels Électriques (Vol.2)Télécharger le podcast en .mp3 (Clic droit / Enregistrer le lien sous)
Deux ans après leur première fusion, Accords Électriques et Pixel Music Radio Show ressortent le double jack et se branchent sur le même ampli pour vous proposer un second volume de Pixels Électriques, l'émission métal qui parle de jeux vidéo.
2h de direct autour d'une playlist métal et jeu vidéo et en compagnie de trois invités spécialisés.
(Et d'un public, en l'occurrence Manu ! The Japanese EP est très joli. Ceci était une parenthèse)
Georges Grouard, Jay, journalis...
2015-06-302h 01Émissions spécialesPixels Électriques (Vol.2)Télécharger le podcast en .mp3 (Clic droit / Enregistrer le lien sous)
Deux ans après leur première fusion, Accords Électriques et Pixel Music Radio Show ressortent le double jack et se branchent sur le même ampli pour vous proposer un second volume de Pixels Électriques, l'émission métal qui parle de jeux vidéo.
2h de direct autour d'une playlist métal et jeu vidéo et en compagnie de trois invités spécialisés.
(Et d'un public, en l'occurrence Manu ! The Japanese EP est très joli. Ceci était une parenthèse)
Georges Grouard, Jay, journalis...
2015-06-302h 01
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