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Children playing a game of paper football. Paper football (also called finger football, flick football, tabletop football, thump football, or freaky football) refers to a table-top game, loosely based on American football, in which a sheet of paper folded into a small triangle is slid back and forth across a table top by two opponents. [1]
Subbuteo (/ s ʌ ˈ b (j) uː t i oʊ / sub-(Y)OO-tee-oh) is a tabletop football game in which players simulate association football by flicking miniature players with their fingers. . The name is derived from the Neo-Latin scientific name Falco subbuteo (a bird of prey commonly known as the Eurasian hobby), after a trademark was not granted to its creator Peter Adolph (1916–1994) to call ...
Newfooty introduced the idea of flicking the figures with a finger towards the ball and was the initial table football game, long before the similar game of Subbuteo. Newfooty can lay claim to being the original finger-flicking table soccer game which many players enjoy today.
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The object of the game is to finger-flick a comparatively heavy disk, called a striker, shooter or pitch, such that it contacts lighter object discs and propels them into one of four corner pockets. The pieces come in two sets, usually white and black, denoting the two players (or, in doubles play, teams).
New York Jets wide receiver Allen Lazard was hit with an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Sunday afternoon for flashing a double gun celebration after picking up a first down.
College football fans launched a mix of boos and cheers at the former president as he made his way through an Iowa crowd on Saturday. Some Football Fans Hit Trump With Harsh 1-Finger Salute During ...
The odd-colored poison is placed in the center of the board. The pieces must be struck with the shooter. The shooter is usually flicked with the index (or middle) finger and thumb in a flicking action (French: pichenotte). The shooter may be pushed with a finger without the use of the thumb, but may not be "carried" across the board.