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Haiti Bowl 2024 is in the books.
A defensive struggle between the Jets and Cardinals. The Cardinals were first to get on the board with a FG and that was the halftime score. The Jets defense shutout the Cardinals in the second half and the offense had a two play 86 yd TD drive capped off by a 57yd TD run to secure the win. 7-3.
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Also got in the second NFC semi. Packers vs the 49ers. This one was all Packers. They dominated from the outset. Started out with a 43 yd TD run. Followed by a 94 yd drive culminating with a 16 yd rushing TD and just kept rolling to an easy win.
Next up the AFC championship between the Jets and Browns & the NFC title between the Packers and Cardinals.
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Game 2 in the books. The NFC #1 Seed Eagles vs the Wild Card Cardinals. Eagles struck first and held the lead at half time. The Cardinals come out of halftime and rip off a 78 yd TD to tie the game. However the Eagles answer with a 68 yd TD run to go back in front. The Cardinals them cap off a 75 yd drive with a 33 yd TD run to force overtime. The Cardinals got the ball first and get a 61 yd run and get a FG to upset the Eagles.
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23 minutes ago, Terry43 said:
TripleOption67 let me take a moment and praise your choice of electric football fields. Absolute beauty. It has those rolled-steel double-sided walls that are really solid. Paint looks great.
You may have posted this previously and I missed the post; do all your teams ride on the double clips bases?
In the fourth picture is your QB #11 blocking for your tailback #28? In electric football I believe QBs should be blocking. With or without the QB blocking the Jets have great offensive line surge. I can understand why the Jets are the top seed.
What does the road to the Haiti Bowl look like? Eight teams? Sixteen teams? Which teams?
Is it the Haiti Bowl because all of your plastic peeps are Haiti players?
I hope that's not too many questions. I'm just trying to get a feel for your endeavor. Thank you.
Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️
No worries. I'll do my best to answer all of your questions.
About 10 yrs ago or so, maybe longer, I decided to have my own playoffs/ Super Bowl if you will using only Haiti era teams. Hence the Haiti Bowl name. The main reason is those were the era of teams I had growing up when I got my first board. Plus, personally, the most beautiful teams Tudor ever produced.
I randomly draw a team from each of the 3 AFC and NFC divisions from that era, mid/late 70s. Those are my division champs. And one Wild Card from the remainder of teams. The champs are redrawn for seeding 1-WC, 2-3. So 4 teams each conference. AFC champ plays NFC champ in the Haiti Bowl.
Yes I only use double clip, non tweaked rookie bases. They are also randomly drawn and placed on the players. So you never know what your players are going to do until you turn the game on.
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Kicking off my annual Haiti Bowl playoffs.
First up was the AFC top seed Jets vs the Wild Card Dolphins. Back and forth game. Dolphins struck first and never trailed, until the last play. On fourth and 4 from the Dolphins 16 yd line, the Jets gambled and went for it. QB broke off a 16 yd TD run to win.
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36 minutes ago, Terry43 said:
Wow! Great paint! 😃👍 Nice thin lines on the helmets and pants.
Do all your players ride on the Rookie double clips? How many teams do you have?
✨🎉You have the Orange Bowl and Liberty Bowl field covers. 🎊✨ Do you have magnetic field covers for all the Bowl Games?
Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️
Thanks on the painting. Those were done years ago. My eyes aren't so good anymore so I don't do much painting these days. I've painted about 75-80 college teams some both home and away.
Always use rookie bases randomly picked out of a bag. Nothing tweaked and no preferential bases for positions. This way you never know what you're going to get from a player or team. Makes it interesting.
Also have a Rose Bowl cover Mark Kistner made for me way back when he was making them for Miggle Toys. I do plan on having a couple more made in the future though. Just have to decide what to get, decisions, decisions.
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14 hours ago, Terry43 said:
Welcome to the Forum.
Go Wildcats! The paint on both teams looks great.
Who did your field cover?
Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️
It's a Mark Kistner magnetic field cover on a board I built years ago.
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The HAITI Era page was actually a site I managed that Lynn set up for me. Multiple collectors contributed pictures of their teams in addition to mine. I may have some of the images saved to a flash drive but I don't know where. I've always wanted to make a new site but just have never found the time.
There was some nice representations of all the variations of the HAITI uniforms I wish I'd have saved them. One of these days I'll hopefully run across the files.
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The HAITI Era page was actually a site I managed that Lynn set up for me. Multiple collectors contributed pictures of their teams in addition to mine. I may have some of the images saved to a flash drive but I don't know where. I've always wanted to make a new site but just have never found the time.
There was some nice representations of all the variations of the HAITI uniforms I wish I'd have saved them. One of these days I'll hopefully run across the files.
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HAITI BOWL 2024 Championship Game. Bills vs Buccaneers. Bills led 7-0 at the half. Bucs take 2nd half opening drive 75yds to tie it at 7. Bills break off a 56 yd TD run to go up 14-7 only to have the Bucs rip off a 71 yd TD run to even it up at 14 all. Bills weren't going to be denied though as on 4th & 8 at midfield they get a 50 yd game winning TD run to win this year's HAITI BOWL.
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NFC Championship game. Top seeded Cowboys faced off with the 3 seed Buccaneers. Cowboys get a 67 yd TD run to open the scoring. Bucs kick a FG to make it a 7-3 game at the half. Then the fireworks start. Bucs drive 75 yds capped off by a 42 yd TD run. Cowboys answer right back with a 73 yd run and score a TD 2 plays later to go up 14-10. But, the Bucs rip off a 68 yd TD run to go back on top for good. Now on to the HAITI BOWL. Buccaneers vs the Bills.
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AFC final. The Broncos vs Bills. Broncos take the opening drive foy a TD. Bills answer with a FG. Bills defense takes over and shuts down the Broncos. Meanwhile the Bills add another FG and then take the lead on TD capping off a long drive. Bills cement it late with another TD to win 20-10 and advance to the HAITI BOWL Championship game.
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1 hour ago, Capa said:
How do you combat bias when setting up defense when you know ahead of time what type of offensive play you are going to run?
The way I play solitaire there is no bias as I run the same offensive and defensive sets for both teams. No variations. They line up the same every play.
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Finally getting to play some games. Started my yearly Road to the Haiti Bowl playoffs using only Haiti era teams.
First game played. Top seeded Broncos playing the wild card Colts. Broncos strike first, led 7-0 at half. Colts tie it up on first drive of second half only to have the Broncos break off a 77 yd TD to give Denver a 14-7 win.
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23 hours ago, Paul Kian said:
These look awesome, I really like the TCU shade of Purple. My High School basically looked like the Packers but with a paw print on the helmet so it wouldn't be worth painting. 😆
If you don't mind my asking, is one of those players based on you?
Unfortunately no. I actually ran Cross Country. These are however all of my Senior classmates, all of whom started
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You know, I honestly didn't even realize that. Very observant of you to notice. Guess I hindsight he deserves to be MVP.