Beanbag football game

Abstract

A toss football game has an image of a full-length football field including a far end zone and a yard line area extending the length of the rectangular planar surface from a far end zone and a plurality of through-holes for passage of a hand tossed football-shaped beanbag. A touchdown hole is located over the far end zone to simulate realistic play. A safety hole is located over the near end zone. Reward-hazard pairs of holes are arranged with hazards down slope from rewards. Grid markings extend the length between the end zones along yard numbers, tick marks and a stick-on center field logo. Orange pylons protrude at corners of end zones. A scoring mechanism tracks series and points. Instructions prescribe an extra point earned when a next toss lands on the planar surface and an untimed game having a limited number of tosses per series and a limited number of series per quarter, extendable when tossing though a first down hole until an upper limit and, after a touchdown (or subsequent field goal or two point conversion), any other beanbags in that series can still continue to be thrown by the same team.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A toss football game comprising:
 a rectangular planar surface comprising an image of a full-length football field upon a top surface of thereof, said image including a far end zone and a yard line area extending the length of the rectangular planar surface from the far end zone and a plurality of through-holes each of a size and shape sufficient to permit passage of a hand tossed beanbag and indicia associated with each of the plurality of through-holes to indicate various plays; and   a touchdown labeled beanbag-sized through-hole in the rectangular planar surface located substantially over the far end zone.   
     
     
         2 . A toss football game according to  claim 1 , further comprising
 a near end zone and the yard line area extending the length of the rectangular planar surface substantially between the far end zone and the near end zone   
     
     
         3 . A toss football game according to  claim 2 , further comprising
 a safety labeled beanbag-sized through-hole in the rectangular planar surface located substantially over the near end zone; and   a plurality of other labeled beanbag-sized through-holes in the rectangular planar surface located substantially over the yard line area extending the length of the rectangle between the end zones.   
     
     
         4 . A toss football game according to  claim 3 , wherein the plurality of other labeled beanbag-sized through-holes in the rectangular planar surface located substantially over the yard line area extending the length of the rectangle between the end zones indicate plays chosen from the group consisting of an interception and a penalty. 
     
     
         5 . A toss football game according to  claim 2 , wherein the image of the yard line area on said rectangular planar surface comprises grid markings extending the length of the rectangular planar surface substantially between the end zones. 
     
     
         6 . A toss football game according to  claim 5 , wherein the image of the grid markings extending the length of the rectangular planar surface substantially between the end zones include images of yard numbers consisting essentially of number images  10 ,  20 ,  30 ,  40 ,  50 ,  40 ,  30 ,  20  and  10  in this specified order. 
     
     
         7 . A toss football game according to  claim 5 , wherein the image of the yard line area on said rectangular planar surface further comprises a stick-on-sticker image of a team logo near the center of the field. 
     
     
         8 . A toss football game according to  claim 1 , further comprising
 a plurality of orange pylons, each orange pylon protruding from the planar surface at corners of the image of the end zones.   
     
     
         9 . A toss football game according to  claim 1 , further comprising
 a plurality of other labeled beanbag-sized through-holes in the rectangular planar extending the length of the rectangle indicate plays chosen from the group consisting of a safety, a first down, a two point conversion, an interception and a penalty.   
     
     
         10 . A toss football game according to  claim 2 ,
 wherein the toss football game further comprises a support structure for tilting on a slope an end of the rectangular planar surface near the far end zone higher than an end of the rectangular planar surface near the near end zone;   wherein each of the through-holes represent either a reward action or a hazard action via indicia associated with each through-hole; and   wherein through holes are arranged in pairs of through-holes representing a reward action and hazard action, wherein the through-holes having indicia representing a hazard action are located generally down slope below the through-holes having indicia representing a reward action.   
     
     
         11 . A toss football game according to  claim 10 , wherein at least half of the through holes are arranged in pairs of through-holes representing a reward action and hazard action 
     
     
         12 . A toss football game according to  claim 1 , further comprising a scoring mechanism permitting players to keep track of series played and points earned. 
     
     
         13 . A toss football game according to  claim 1 , further comprising at least one football-shaped beanbag. 
     
     
         14 . A toss football game according to  claim 1 , further comprising instructions for the toss football game specifying an untimed game to be played by a plurality of teams, each team having a limited number of tosses per series and a limited number of series per quarter, wherein the instructions specify a limit of series for a team is extended by one when a player of the team passes a beanbag through a first down through-hole. 
     
     
         15 . A toss football game according to  claim 1 , further comprising instructions for the toss football game specifying a same team continuing play of its limited number of tosses per series after completion of the group consisting of a touchdown, a field goal and a two point conversion. 
     
     
         16 . A toss football game according to  claim 1 , further comprising instructions for the toss football game prescribing an extra point being earned immediately subsequent to a toss passing through a touchdown through-hole when a next toss lands on the planar surface. 
     
     
         17 . A method of playing an untimed game of toss football by hand tossing a series of beanbags one at a time towards a plurality of through-holes in a planar surface located a distance from a player of a team, and continuing the hand tossing of an additional series of beanbags from a player of the same team, until a number of series tossed reaches a limit. 
     
     
         18 . A method according to  claim 17 , wherein the limit of series for the team is extended by one when a player of the team passes a beanbag through a first down through-hole and the limit of series for the team can be extended no higher than a predetermined number. 
     
     
         19 . A method according to  claim 18 , wherein the predetermined number is six and the initial number of permitted series is three. 
     
     
         20 . A method according to  claim 17 , wherein a player of a same team continues play of its limited number of tosses per series after completion of the group consisting of a touchdown, a field goal and a two point conversion.