`bright cyan`The Game
        Franchise Football is similar, although not entirely the same as
        Franchise Basketball.  Franchise Football adds several options, 
        including many that make the football experience better.

        In Franchise Football, you are the owner / general manager / coach
        of a professional football franchise.  As this, you are responsible
        for making your team the best it can be.  Of course, this takes
        money, along with talent.  In your role as owner and general
        manager, you must make money to improve your team and attract fans
        (as well as win the Championship).  In addition, you will be given
        opportunities to acquire new players (registered version) to fill
        in many of the blank spots in your lineup.

        The game is basically broken into two major segments for simplicity.
        The first is the player segment (see below).  Here you manage all of
        your players, including releasing, training, and switching positions.

        The second is the front office.  It is here that you manage all of
        your finances and actually call the offensive and defensive play
        styles... (basically everything that does not directly deal with
        players)

`bright cyan`The Player Segment
        As mentioned above, here you can manipulate your players, swapping
        roster positions, changing squads, training, switching positions,
        releasing, benching, and more.  In order to do many of the things
        here you must have cash (not money in the bank).  So be warned that
        you must take money out of the bank before you can use it.

`bright cyan`The Front Office
        The front office has two major categories, the business options, and
        the coaching options.  Business options include buying advertising,
        additional concession stands, scheduling promotional days, licensing
        merchandise, building new stadiums, setting ticket prices, and 
        handling money to and from the bank.

        The coaching options are broken down into three choices for offense
        and three choices for defense.  These three choices represent the
        most likely play call for the respective down (meaning, if Offense
        option #2 is a Run Sweep, then your team will more likely run a sweep
        play than a short pass on second down).  The plays your team runs are
        not restricted to the three options chosen, but setting these can
        greatly affect the style of your teams game play.  ( if you have all
        three sets set to some sort of passing play, your team will pass the
        vast majority of the time... most likely 60 - 80%, and your 
        quarterback may have upwards of 50-60 pass attempts ).  This option
        allows you to tailor your team as you see fit.  Remember, passing
        teams often have trouble controlling the clock, whereas running clubs
        tend to keep the score low and control the ball.

`bright cyan`Wins and Losses
        Your record greatly effects attendance, and thus cash.  The better
        the team, the more people want to see them.  There is definitely a
        mix between factors to be truly successful.

`bright cyan`The Season
        Franchise Football allows the system operator or game organizer to
        customize how many days will be between games, and the total number
        of games that will be played in the regular season.  You can always
        check these variables by going to the instruction menu and choosing
        the League Settings option.  You should be aware of the time between
        games so you may check your team in a timely manner and adjust all
        factors that need attention.

`bright cyan`Perpetual Reset
        The perpetual reset is a concept originally added to Franchise
        Basketball, that allows registered users to play multiple seasons
        with the same team of players, rather than drafting a new team
        each season.  Franchise Football takes this option to a new level.
        In FFBL, users keep not only their team, but their stadium,
        concessions, merchandising and most of their fame and money.  This
        makes the perpetual season even more exciting, as users build their
        Franchise up over several seasons.  To insure that the game does
        not get uncompetitive after several consecutive seasons, the
        sysop may set FFBL to do a complete reset after 1-20 perpetual
        seasons.  In other words after 1-20 perpetual seasons, all
        users will draft an entirely new team and begin from scratch.
        You can check all FFBL settings under the League Settings option
        on the Instruction menu.

`bright cyan`Franchise Football `white`is a product of `bright red`SnellaSoft`white`.
`white`(`bright yellow`C`white`)opyright 1996.
