First game newly designed by Stern Pinball Inc. Preliminary backglass artwork for this game (not shown here) indicate its pre-production name was 'Soccer Explosion 2000'. Machine put back into production with a football theme as Stern's 2001 'NFL'. In the Files section of this listing is a comparison of differences between the prototype and the production version of this game, to accompany some of the images included here. The Union Flag depicted on the playfield (commonly called the Union Jack) is misidentified as belonging to England. Actually, it is the flag of the United Kingdom which consists of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.