If you’re a football fan, this time of year is both happy and sad. Happy because there are lots of great football games to watch with bowl games and the NFL playoffs. Sad because we all know that the season is almost over and we’ll have to wait another year to see our teams take the gridiron again.

Many of you will participate in the games by playing football squares. Perhaps with people from your office, friends or old college buddies. Often people are not in the same location and they’ll need to fax or email their football squares entry. The problem is, lots of people end up doing this from home where they may not have a fax machine or scanner. And there are always those late entries just before the game! For the organizer and participants, this can be a real problem. But not with qipit!

If you’re the organizer or a participant, you can use qipit to copy and share your football squares form. All you have to do is take a picture of the entry form with your 1 mega pixel camera phone with autofocus or macro mode on, and send it to copy@qipit.com. To email or fax the form directly from your phone, just enter the email address or fax number in the body text of the MMS or mobile email. If your camera phone does not sport auto focus you can use your digital camera to take the picture and simply upload the image through email or your account at qipit and then fax or email the qipit copy of the entry form from your account page.

To make this even easier, we have provided the rules and a Football Squares Template for free!

Football Squares Rules

Within the grid, the top row of numbers represents the possible points scored of team one and the left column represents team two’s score. (The numbers are not placed in these squares until the players have added their names to the grid.)

All the players add their names to the other free squares within the grid. Depending on the number of players, some may choose more than one square. As soon as the players have filled in all of the squares, numbers from 0 to 9 are drawn blindly and filled in across the top row. This is repeated for the left column. When you’re done, you’ll have numbers from 0 to 9 in random order across the top row and down the left column, and names filled in all of the other squares.

The object of the game is to “choose” the score of the game by having your name in the square at the intersection of the final points of each team (as you draw an imaginary line down from team one’s score at the top and across from team two’s score). If there is a two-digit number, the second digit is used for the match. For example, if team one has 14 points and team two has 21, the person in the square at the intersection of #4 from the top row and #1 from the left column wins. You can have four winners by selecting the scores at the end of each quarter, two winners by using the half-time score and the final, or just have one big winner using the final score of the game.

Good luck and have fun! Oh, and we don’t recommend the use this template for any type of gambling, especially if it is illegal in your state!

~ Conrad