F is for Football

There are quite a few great learning games for Madison, as she attempts to tackle different new sounds of the English language. This game above is one that teaches words that start with the letter "f," words like "feather," or "football!"

The object of the game is simple: score a touchdown. Each player starts in their own opposite endzone. Then, each player takes a turn by doing the coin toss! If it is heads, you advance ten yards. If it is tails, there's a twenty yard gain. BUT... you can only get a completion of the yardage if you can say the word that is on the field. Madison has to say words like "feet," "fish," "fork," or "forest" to march across the field and score a touchdown!

As you can see above, her piece is on the five yard line, and Daddy's on the ten yard line. The game is just beginning. Commentators would later call this one of the greatest ever played. Here's an excerpt below from a sports broadcaster who was there to witness the epic contest.

"The fans roared as Daddy came back in the final moments of the fourth quarter with a stunning drive - he was on fire! But inexplicably this father failed, fumbling the football on the forty-four yard, a few yards flat of the first down. What a flop! So the score remained tied, and things would go into overtime, a fifth quarter! The players of both teams finally on fumes, their feet were tired. Everyone was fretting, hoping for a fast finish - but fate figured other plans. Still, this fantastic football had to end eventually. So Madison won the coin toss and marched down the field, driving her team inside her foe's territory. Daddy's flabbergasted defense held up to three frontal assaults from Madison's front line - and it appeared as if she was going to go for a punt. But it was a facade! On the fake, she out-foxed the defense, and flipped over his line as light as a feather. Then she flew fast through the forest of defenders with fantastic finesse! Touchdown! Put a fork in this one - it's done. Time to go feed some fish (they're to your right)."