A lot of great Electric Football games have been made through the years, and we’re going to honor them this fall with The Unforgettable Buzz “Top 20 Countdown.” Beginning next Friday we’re going to feature one of Electric Football’s most … Continue reading
With the NFL now officially back in Electric Football, it’s fitting that Electric Football recently earned its first official appearance on an NFL team web site. All credit goes to the New York Jets and Randy Lange, who ran “What’s The … Continue reading
Electric Football got a great reception from John Voperian of “Beyond The Game” the other night at White Plains Community Media. I had a great time talking with John – he’s a gracious host who asked great questions. He made … Continue reading
Electric Football has many nooks and crannies for aficionados to dive into. One of our favorite sections, and one that is a bit under appreciated, is Electric Football’s long and intriguing paper trail. This fascination with paper probably owes a … Continue reading
(This is part of post we wrote for the Sports Collector’s Daily web site.) Older is not automatically better in Electric Football collecting. The first Electric Football games were made by Tudor in 1949, and although yes, the early Tru-Action … Continue reading
Electric Football has had so many cool and significant game through the years that it was hard to narrow down to which games we should put out for display at TudorCON 14. The 1949 Tru-Action No. 500 model was an … Continue reading
With Toy Fair 2014 already in the rear view mirror, we found ourselves thumbing through The Unforgettable Buzz taking a look at Toy Fair’s past. One that happened 60 years ago caught our eye, because it featured the first Electric … Continue reading
Electric Football in the 1956 Sears Christmas Catalog. The game is at the top of the page. It’s the Sears exclusive Gotham G-940 Electro-Magnetic Football Game
There are so many points in Electric Football history where a change occurred and the path of the game was forever altered. One of the truly momentous changes happened when Electric Football began appearing the in the Christmas catalogs of … Continue reading
Note: We first published this blog post in August of 2012. We had no idea at the time that it would become part of one of the coolest looking pages in The Unforgettable Buzz (it’s at the bottom of this … Continue reading
Electric football and the NFL first came together on the Gotham G-1500 model in 1961. It was a groundbreaking game on many levels. It really was, in modern terminology, a game-changer, and set the stage for all that came … Continue reading
Electric football inventor Norman Sas was honored by LIFE in their end-of-the-year publication Farewell Remembering The Friends We Lost in 2012. There, among notable individuals like Neil Armstrong, Andy Griffith, Dick Clark, Mike Wallace, Etta James, Alex Karras, and Ernest … Continue reading
Electric football inventor Norman Sas was a genuinely humble man. But there was one topic where his trademark reserve quickly melted away. In any conversation that involved NFL Properties, Mr. Sas would always include this phrase: “We made that company.” … Continue reading
Electric football was pretty popular in the early 1970’s, but was it “valuable” enough to be used as a bribe…to police officers? The answer is a resounding “Yes.” In a front page New York Times article from November of 1972, … Continue reading
Electric football history is usually pretty colorful. Let’s time travel back 50 years and take a peak inside a 1962 Gotham Rule Book…..
Electric football had become quite crowded by 1972. Not only were long-time players Tudor and Gotham still in the game, they had recently been joined by “rookies” Coleco and Munro. Both of these new companies charged onto the field like … Continue reading
This is the 1972 version of the Gotham electric football game we featured in the last post. Gotham has now turned this model into a large game (38″ x 21″), and renumbered it. It’s now the NFLPA G-1506. It’s basically … Continue reading
Electric football games were a Thanksgiving Day advertising staple in the 1960’s. The above ad was run by the Lazarus Department store chain ran in the Mansfield News Journal on November 27, 1969. It was a full page ad that … Continue reading
Tudor and Gotham both began selling electric football games in Canada in the mid-1950’s. There was a little bit of profit to be made there, but demand for electric football in Canada wasn’t really that strong. Neither Tudor nor Gotham … Continue reading
In September of 1969, the New York Jets were holding their practices on the grounds of the Rikers Island prison, which sits in the East River near La Guardia Airport. The Jets were practicing at the prison because the New … Continue reading