The Blubber Game

Did you ever invent any games to play with your baseball cards or football cards? I invented a dumb game to play with football cards. It was called the Blubber Game. Here's how it was played.

1. Divide all years of my Topps football cards into the 26 teams (yes, there were only 26 then)

2. For each of these 26 stacks, I amassed the heaviest 24-man squad I could (11 on offense, 11 on defense, a kicker & a punter)

3. I then did the above for the other 25 teams

4. Then I would choose two of these teams to "play" each other

5. This team's center would be matched up against that team's center; this team's heaviest guard would be matched up against that team's heaviest guard & the smaller guard against the smaller guard, etc., as represented below:

Packers:

C G G T T TE WR WR QB RB RB K P DT DT DE DE MLB LB LB CB CB S S

VS

Rams:

C G G T T TE WR WR QB RB RB K P DT DT DE DE MLB LB LB CB CB S S

The heaviest player would win each of the 24 face-offs (belly-offs?). In case of a tie, the taller player would win - the 1967 Topps Cotton Davidson was good to have for ties, because his height was erroneously listed as a lofty 6'10"!!! Whichever team had the most heaviest players would face another team of 24, until all teams but two were eliminated, & these final two teams would compete in the Super Belly Bowl, for the coveted Lardass trophy.

The biggest guys back then when I was doing this were guys like Buck Buchanan, Bubba Smith & Bob Brown; but having been to many sportscards shows, I had lots of cards of big guys from the past, like Ernie Ladd & Big Daddy Lipscomb, just to name two.

I know it was a goofy game to play, but I was a pretty goofy kid, & I'm sure I'm an even goofier adult . . .

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