Abstract: A football board game is disclosed. The board game includes a board formed in a rectangular configuration of two essentially square halves pivotably coupled together at a fold line. A playing surface has a central indicia with separate words on each side of the fold line, end zones at the opposite ends parallel with the center fold line with elongated margins between the end zones. Each margin has interiorly, a plurality of apertures for receipt of objects, indicia indicating yardage adjacent the edges thereof and arrows in opposite directions located between the apertures and the yard markers. A pair of pegs are positioned in the apertures, one peg having a cube with “down marker” indicia on each vertical face and the other having a football constituting a ball position marker. The game includes a plurality of decks of similarly configured playing cards, each deck having similar indicia on one side and a different color on the other side and positioned at opposite ends of the board.