My friends and I played this a lot back in the day. We didn't really play the football (it wasn't a great football game, all things considered, and let's face it the ball is waaaaaaaay too big on the CPC) but it was fun to try to line up the players over the top of one-another in order to create pretty patterns and/or try to make one of the players disappear.
Yeah, we had to make our own fun back in those days.