Joe Greco visits Subterranean Stadium

[artlax]

what a great place to get together and play - thanks for sharing pictures Joe and congratulations once again to Larue and the CEFL coaches for keeping it rolling!

[steelerfan]

Thanks for posting the extra posts, Joe.

How do they get their games done in an hour and 45 minutes? Is their rule-set posted in the forums?

Would be curious to hear how many plays they usually get in a game in a hour and 45 minutes

[RooMorgans]

Great pictures, Joe. Glad you posted them, really adds to the experience.

That's a great setup. Our Maryland Subbuteo Club has something similar, where the other club co-founder cleared out his good-sized garage, set up tables, put up his whole collection and that's where we played every week for many years. He called it "The Shrine," and even has a large green wood board where everyone who plays there signs in silver Sharpie. I was proud to sign it first.

I think the home of the CEFL should be the miniature football version of The Shrine.

Great stuff.

Ed

[detroitchild]

Great stuff guys!

This story and these pics should be on the MFCA Homepage.

[Joe Greco]

Larue would be best to answer the question as to the number of plays per game.

If I remember correctly, they use a 35 minute running clock for each half. When the 35 minute clock expires they then run 5 additional plays.

All of the coaches set up very quickly and once the offense and defense are set there are no additional adjustments made at any time. This eliminates a lot of the time that it takes to run each play. As far as I could see they get in lots of plays in a short amount of time.

Joe G

[styx]

I SALUTE YOU ALL IN CONN.

[larue]

What Joe says in his post is correct,we play two 35 minute halves followed by 5 untimed plays (there are no time outs),There are no adjustments made by ether player after the switch is turned on what you see is what you get.
We do not have kickoffs you start at the 20...we found kickoffs where too hard to defend against no matter how you played (one second rule ect).
We get plenty of plays in per half (at least 20) sometimes more.
We have a 1 minute rule (both offense and defense have 30 seconds to set up) so our games move along.We like all other leagues have our own Bible and we feel ours has served us well for 30 years.I guess what really counts is how much fun you have playing and our rules are simple yet fun.
I also think that a national set of rules would be a great thing for the game,maybe each league could contribute some of their rule ideas to form the "New Testament of Electric Football".
Once again a big time thanks to Joe Greco for stopping by,we loved having him it's something there should be a lot more of.Our league has an open invitation to all MFCA members and I'm sure the rest of the leagues do too
so if you get a chance to drop in on any of us do so....you'll find it to be a great time as will the members, it is what we are about!
Keep playing Keep Teaching
Larue

[the french guy]

If you want to know more about Larue's league and his miniature football room, there is a great article in Tweak magazine winter issue 2007

[broncoman]

THE boards look great, the room and setting is out of sight. BUT THE MODEL TRAINS IN THE BACK GROUND GOT MY ATTENTION WOW!
WHEN I young I had model trains to go with EF. STILL HAVE some now, just no place to put them up. would to visit this game room .
I also plenty of BEER, my kind of place


BRONCOMAN

[steelerfan]

There needs to be another article that awesome room with lots of pics, just love the layout and sounds like a great league.