Electric Football TudorCON 14 countdown….t-minus 3 days and counting!! It’s hard to believe TudorCON 14 is almost here. We’ve had a very busy week as we make final preparations for this weekend. And what a weekend it promises to be! … Continue reading
More Than Just Electric Football…. It was 43 years ago today the Colts and Cowboys played in Super Bowl V, a game that is now enshrined in football lore as the “Blunder Bowl.” While it may have been “Blunder-ful,” it … Continue reading
Electric Football’s countdown continues…only two weeks until TudorCON 14 in Philadelphia. Hope you’ve made your plans. If not, what are you waiting for?? Electric Football history is at hand. TudorCON 14 is not an event to be missed. Roddy and I … Continue reading
We are proud to unveil the TudorCON 14 Special Edition of The Unforgettable Buzz. Putting a book into mass production means making compromises. Those compromises are made in order to make the book easier and more affordable to produce. And … Continue reading
Electric Football history will add another chapter in just 3 short weeks when TudorCON 14 — that’s shorthand for the Tudor Games Electric Football Convention –– gets underway in Philadelphia on Friday, January 24. Tudor Games and Doug Strohm will … Continue reading
A very Happy New Year to all of our Electric Football friends. We hope you’ve had a great time over the holidays, and had a chance to get some buzzin’ in. If not, we hope you did have a chance … Continue reading
It is with tremendous thanks that we send out this Holiday greeting. We have been truly humbled by the response to The Unforgettable Buzz this past year. In almost every way our expectations have been surpassed – we’ve had many … Continue reading
Electric Football has another television commercial from the past to ad to its lineup. This was forwarded to us by sportswriter and fellow Electric Football aficionado Greg Eno. It’s from Gib Shanley’s Quarterback Club, which was a Cleveland Browns’ review show … Continue reading
Baltimore writer Tom Flynn gave The Unforgettable Buzz a terrific review on his blog the Boxer Journal last week. Here’s a sample: “Authors Earl Shores and Roddy Garcia have done such a brilliant job of using the game as a lens … Continue reading
By 1976 the Sears’ Christmas Wish Book was down to two Electric Football games (the Sears NFL Super Bowl and the Tudor No. 500), while the Montgomery Ward Christmas Catalog was down to a single Coleco model. Only at J.C. … Continue reading
Electric Football, for most people, evokes memories of Christmas. That what makes our reaction to the game so visceral. Because for so many of us Electric Football was the best Christmas present ever. And we’ll never forget that thrill…just like … Continue reading
Earl Shores of The Unforgettable Buzz will be talking about Electric Football with Greg Eno (Featured Columnist for The Bleacher Report) and Al Beaton (Bess You Boys) on Monday, December 9. Greg and Al are both Detroit area sports journalist who have … Continue reading
Do you remember when the Greatest Games were played on your living room floor? Then you’ll want a copy of The Unforgettable Buzz, the first and only book ever written on the subject of Electric Football. It’s available now for the Holiday season from … Continue reading
Electric Football history was chronicled by the Christmas catalogs of Sears, Montgomery Ward, and others for over 30 years. These catalogs were a vital source of information to us as we wrote The Unforgettable Buzz. Not only did they give … Continue reading
Our publisher, One Way Road Press, is what is known in the publishing trade as a “small” publisher. So one of the things we had to come to terms in going the small publisher route was that the The Unforgettable … Continue reading
Eric Clark is author of The Real Toy Story: Inside the Ruthless Battle for America’s Youngest Consumers. It is really a seminal work on the modern toy industry, and was published by Simon & Schuster. He is a renowned investigative … Continue reading
The Action Figure Times recently reviewed The Unforgettable Buzz, and we are truly gratified by what Editor Glenn Harman thought of our book. Here are some excerpts: “Earl Shores and Roddy Garcia have written one of the most in depth … Continue reading
We had the good fortune of getting Christopher Byrne to give us a comment for the back cover of The Unforgettable Buzz. Chris is known throughout the toy world as “The Toy Guy,” and is the content director for Time … Continue reading
So here we are, a Monday Night Football game with my Vikings against my older brother’s New York “Football” Giants…in Prime Time! When I first saw it on the schedule I was thrilled. Another classic battle between Roald and I … Continue reading
Electric Football is mysterious for some people. They sort of politely nod when you talk about…if you’re lucky. Some get that far off look in their eyes, mixed with a touch a fear, like you’re a disheveled homeless person mumbling … Continue reading