Giant Football Darts - America's Most Dangerous Backyard Game

I did America PROUD and made the best version of darts you'll ever see! 

WATCH VIDEO HERE: I Built America's Most Dangerous Backyard Game 

Boy did I think this video would go viral! I guess it's that delusion upon releasing almost every video I make that keeps me motivated. I think this was the build that I was most proud of. Aesthetically it looked CRISPY! I hand painted the board and it came out so clean. And the footballs with the broad head arrow tip looked as menacing and deadly as I hoped! 

The toughest challenge of this video was editing together our game of football darts at the end to try to be entertaining. It was late at night and I had been stuck on this part of the video for a while but then I found the right music and it started clicking. Also I suppose the back pain that I got while hand painting the dartboard was pretty rough too. 

I ended up packing this bad boy up in my minivan to take to Open Sauce 2024 and it was a HUGE HIT! We must have had 600 people come by to play football darts BUT I switched it up to frisbee darts since that was easier for people to throw and get it to stick. The process of building and preparing it for Open Sauce was pretty great too. 

I was promised a 16 ft by 16 ft space (that didn't happen) and created a safety net system to stop and discs or darts from killing our neighbors and it worked like a charm! There were a few uncoordinated kids that just yeeted the disc into the net wall and probably would put some new holes in our neighbor Tim if we weren't careful... 

Possibly the coolest part though was all of the people who played! I played with the Backyard scientist, Louis Weisz