Electric Football Game Top 20 Countdown – No. 20

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No. 20 in the Electric Football Top 20 Countdown – the 1976 Sears Tudor Super Bowl

Coming in at No. 20 on The Unforgettable Buzz Electric Football Game Top 20 Countdown is the 1976 Sears NFL Super Bowl featuring the Steelers and the Cowboys. While a “small” Sears Super Bowl may not seem like an ideal Top 20 candidate this game has some, shall we say, “extenuating” circumstances.

Super Bowl X was by far the most exciting Super Bowl game played up to that point in time. The Steelers’ 21-17 victory over the Cowboys had drama, scoring, hitting, as well as an epic individual performance by Steelers’ WR Lynn Swann. It was everything that football fans had hoped for since the Super Bowl was first played in 1967. And it still ranks as one of the best Super Bowls of all time.

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By 1976 Sears had reduced its Super Bowl models down to Tudor’s mid-size game design (31” x 18”). Still the field had the colorful Tudor No. 635 template, with a giant NFL shield at midfield and a red-white-and-blue diamond pattern in each end zone. It also came with Tudor’s standard size single-posted goal posts.

pit-dal-1But what really helped push this game into our Top 20 was the teams that came with the game — black shoe Haiti Steelers and Cowboys. The Haiti players are just so well painted (although they were molded in New Jersey). The metallic grey/blue of the Cowboys’ pants is one of our all-time favorite looks. We like this game so much we even used it on the back cover of The Unforgettable Buzz!

So there’s our No. 20 game – the 1976 Tudor Sears’ Super Bowl. See you next week for No. 19!

 

Earl, Roddy & Michael

PS – This game is in our new Electric Football Wishbook!!

 

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Electric Football Game Top 20 Countdown – No. 20 — 2 Comments

  1. The 635 board and Haiti figures are what I played with in the league my friends and I had in the mid-’70s. Although I pined for a larger board like my buddy had, the standard 635 had a great look too. It had the same diamond designed end zones as the SB model, and a great Lee Payne designed lineup of NFL helmets along the side. And I still say that the best looking Tudor figures of all-time were the Haiti black shoes. Great job on this first post, can’t wait for next week!