Hi!

I'm The FootMeal. Matt Inman made me in 2017 to tell you about saggy punt sacks and crimes of scrimmage. Then he abandoned me. RUDE.

But I'm back (maybe) with a card game that amplifies everything great about watching football with friends and family.

This is my Hail Mary Pass (Get it? Get it? That’s a football reference!)

The FootMeal's ScoreCards

The Game You Play While Watching The Game.

ScoreCards is a group party card game the whole gang plays while watching football on TV.

ScoreCards features possible plays, events, announcer sound bites, and camera shots commonly or uncommonly found while watching football on TV.

Each card has a point value so with the right combination of strategy, luck, and attentiveness, you just might score enough points to win (even if your favorite team doesn’t.)

There’s also action cards to add a level of...screw you.

It’s a simple game to learn, an easy game to play, but the luck of the draw, randomness of the football game, and the various decisions that must be made along the way, guarantees the game will never be the same twice.

Why???

Watching Football Is Already Social. Let's Make It More Fun.

There's an undeniable social aspect to watching football. Whether it's at a sports bar or in a family rec room, watching football with the gang is a unique part of the American experience.

ScoreCards amplifies these social aspects and the game-time excitement of watching football, without getting in the way of watching the game itself.

Why The Footmeal???

I'm The Football Expert You Need

  1. I understand the game at a scientific level: 11 players on field = 2,817 pounds of fast-moving ManMeat. I did the math.
  2. Matt already created my brand in 2017: I had a voice, a look, and tens and tens of Twitter followers. Then poof, gone. I'm ready to work again.
  3. I was born for this moment: ScoreCards needs someone who can explain football to everyone. That's me.

This fits Exploding Kittens' DNA:

  • Social, in-person gameplay
  • Chaos and sabotage
  • Easy to learn, impossible to predict
  • Makes people laugh
  • Gets people off screens...well...little screens while watching a big screen...so there’s still a screen. I guess???
  • Like football itself, ScoreCards offers story equity. the potential our card game has for players to keep telling stories about it even after they’ve finished playing.

THE PITCH (Baseball term right?)

Here's What I'm Thinking

Exploding Kittens has 60+ games but zero sports games.

Football is America's biggest sport. Loads of people watch football and the game is even played in Canada. Who knew???

ScoreCards solves real problems:

  • Inclusionary for non-fans at parties
  • Teaches kids about football (family-friendly)
  • Works forever and ever, the TV broadcast IS the randomizer

White space opportunity: No major game company owns the "second screen football party game" category.

Print 'N Play ScoreCards. If you like it we can talk about bringing me back from the dead and turning ScoreCards into The FootMeal's ScoreCards! (Yay!)

Me

I'm not looking at creating a game company. I'm a sleepwalking creative director who's aging out of creative and isn't in the mood to learn AI. Recently was put on administrative leave for saying "Election Denier" at a conference in front of 4,500 shareholders.

I live in beautiful Arlington, Nebraska. A place that couldn't be farther from New York City and Los Angeles at the same time. I just want to see this game be a part of pop culture.

I'm always at 402-802-3060 or jayinnebraska@gmail.com