Well it′s playoff time again for all of you NFL football fans out there. Each year a popular use of Qipit is to make a copy of your completed football squares template. Some people publish the results others just want to make a quick and easy copy.

As usual, I am making it easy with a free downloadable football squares template, and I have included the football squares rules.

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.

Remember it is easy to make a copy for free using your camera phone or digital camera.

Take a picture of your football squares template with a megapixel plus camera phone (equipped with auto-focus), remember to leave a little bit of the background around the edges, as I did in the sample picture below.

Next, turn the picture into a qipit by sending the picture to color@qipit.com using email, picture messaging (MMS) or upload it using your computer. Qipit will turn your photo into an easy-to-read, printable ink-on-white digital copy.

Here are some of the details of the upcoming games.

NFL Playoff Schedule (All times Eastern Standard)

Divisional Round

Saturday (January 10, 2009)

AFC Game One at LP Field, 4:30 p.m. (CBS)
NFC Game One at Bank of America Stadium, 8:15 p.m. (Fox)

Sunday (January 11, 2009)
AFC Game Two at Heinz Field, 4:45 p.m. (CBS)
NFC Game Two at Giants Stadium, 1 p.m. (Fox)

Conference Championship Round

Sunday (January 18, 2009)
AFC Conference Championship, 6:30 pm (CBS)
NFC Conference Championship, 3 pm (Fox)

Superbowl XLIII

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Sunday (February 1, 2009)
SUPER BOWL XLIII, Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Fla., 6 pm
Kick-off: 6:28 pm
Super Bowl XLIII Half Time Show: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

Have fun rooting for you favorite team.

~ Conrad