The Miniature Professional Football League is – “Football played with miniatures, this is the chess, a higher level of this hobby. It’s a procedures-based structure that transforms electric football that had no structure into a whole entirely new game.
Due to the foundation of the MPFL (Based on the NFL RULES OF THE GAME) it isn’t electric football but a first of its kind hands on football simulation played with miniatures.
MPFL doesn’t use the TTQB in the passing game as this tool isn’t consistent with the play structure.” – Anthony D. Burgess, September 24,2016
That is how Anthony Burgess, creator of the MPFL, describes his system of ELECTRIC FOOTBALL Game Play.
“If it were not for this system, I would not be playing this game” – Keefe Jackson, Fort Washington, Maryland
If you are a true fan of football seeing this system demonstrated and played you will be hooked, I can guarantee you that. – Rene Smith, Catonsville, Maryland
In this system you better bring your A game, not your B. – Mike A Carr, Temple Hill, Maryland.
These are just some of the testimonials from ELECTRIC FOOTBALL coaches who have seen and used this system. There are many others that have incorporated the MPFL into their league and solitaire play.
Solitaire players seem to be the ones that are most accepting of this style of play because it is the Solitaire Coaches of Electric Football that are constantly seeking more realism in the way they play their games. I know I have spent many hours reading and researching the rules of football and trying to write my own rules for playing the game that is as close as possible to the way real football is played.
Recently Anthony made this post on his Facebook page:
MPFL NOW HAS A YOUTUBE CHANNEL
CHECK IT OUT…….
I will be doing a YouTube procedural guide for learning and understanding how this system works.
Anthony D Burgess Videos on YouTube
MPFL is football played with miniatures. This raises electric football from the basic game of checkers to the MPFL game of chess. It’s a procedural based structure that transforms electric football into an entirely new game.
The foundation of MPFL is the NFL rulebook. The procedures allow you to simulate every aspect of NFL football on a miniature field with equipment you already own from playing electric football. Make no mistake though, this isn’t your grandfather’s electric football game. It is a first of its kind, hands on football simulation played with miniatures.
MPFL doesn’t use the TTQB in the passing game like the old electric football as the TTQB is not consistent with the play structure of the MPFL. Instead, MPFL uses a sophisticated pass placement system that incorporates every element of NFL passing action. If you experience it on Sunday with the NFL, you will experience it here in the MPFL!
This is closest you get to playing real football without putting on the pads!
In another recent post on his MPFL Facebook Page, Anthony expressed his desire to set the record straight on the origin of the passing sticks.
The Passing Sticks (True History)
What this hobby calls Passing Sticks came from and was invented by myself to function in the MPFL System.
Vance Warren who first was exposed to this as we met at the time the MPFL was being created. This method was not compatible with one stop due to elements needed to defend the 3, 5-, 7-, 9-, and 12-yards sticks.
Vance took the Pass Placement idea to Buzzball and it was presented in rules 2000. Because they didn’t create it, they didn’t know how to defend it, so they first penalized the user of the sticks because they didn’t use the TTQB.
So, to justify this they hid it in measuring from the QB to the WR. This made the distance unreasonable long.
The Pass Placement System was specifically designed to function only in the MPLF System, and no other as key components were needed, these components are not in any other style of play and to add those components would turn that style into the MPFL or greatest show the MPFL’s influence.
When someone tells you they do not know where the idea come from, they are not telling you the truth as the very same passing system that 100% of the guys in the hobby rejected, they are now using and pretend they don’t know who invented it.
One of the major issues in this hobby is the character and integrity of the guys in it! Stealing ideas from others and lying about it to others as they benefit from something that wasn’t theirs in the first place.
Guys have gone to YouTube and created videos of this saying they don’t know who created it etc. well they lied and attempted to further their personal status in the hobby.
There can be no true fellowship or union when the foundation of something is built on deception and lies.
On my MPFL group page there are videos on the Pass Placement, the magnet ball used was also my idea.
I then upgraded the floating ball thanks to one Tyrone Ware from Washington DC who to my knowledge came up with this idea, so it was implemented into the Pass Placement and ALL CREDIT GOES TO TYRONE WARE FOR THE CREATION OF THE HANGING BALL ON A STRING.
See what I did, I didn’t take credit for something I didn’t do but gave honor and respect to the one who did and that is Tyrone Ware.
Now the stick passing was but one of many ideas that birthed from the MPFL that are currently being used today in the hobby and was not being done at all until the MPFL was introduced to the EF community at the Miggle Convention in Baltimore MD
So, if you are using a play clock, multi stops, stick passing, adjusting players, turn and burn, players on a base to not move etc. guess where all that came from? ………. That’s right it came from the MPFL, and they don’t want you to know about it.
The hobby historian Warren Jefferson, Don Smith even Vance Warren can confirm this.
Now you know the truth and the history that has been purposely kept from you.
This certainly was a revelation to me as I had always though that pass placement and the passing sticks was a creation of George Diamond and Buzzball and mainly just to help coaches that were physically handicapped and could not use the TTQB to pass the ball.
I could go on and on about the MPFL and its merits to the game of electric football but the best way for you to learn about this system and Anthony D. Burgess is to go to his MPFL Facebook Page, ask to join this private group of almost 700 ELECTRIC FOOTBALL Game and Hobby Enthusiast and subscribe to his YouTube Channel by following the links above.
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