Abstract: A playing card-based simulated football game comprising a plurality of playing cards for at least two players, each of whom represents opposing football teams, the playing cards containing integers and play-controlling indicia for producing, under certain playing conditions, simulated football game plays including "draws", "traps", "bombs", "sacks", "dogs", and "live ball" situations; a plurality of drawing cards housed in a container and retrieved by a player upon notification of the occurrence of a foul, the drawing cards showing the identity of the offending team, the type of foul which occurred and the penalty therefor, all virtually indistinguishable from those actually encountered in the game; a try-kick and field goal chart device comprising a hand-held container and a strip of flat material slidingly received therein, having integers printed thereon, for matching with apertures in the cover to indicate the values of playing cards that may be used to possible insure success of the kick; an elongated st