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 will be visible in the Philadelphia area during the Christmas shopping season. On Saturday, December 21, Earl Shores will be signing The Unforgettable Buzz at the Chester County Book Company between 11 am – 3 pm. It’s a perfect way to … Continue reading
WOW…Do The Knee Jerks know and love Electric Football!! We had an Epic conversation with Greg Eno and Al Beaton that lasted almost 45 minutes – by far the most in depth Electric Football interview we’ve ever done. The amount … 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
Electric Football in the 1978 Sears Christmas Wish Book. The Sears’ Tudor NFL Super Bowl model and the Tudor No. 500. Another installment in The Unforgettable Buzz Christmas Catalog Countdown!
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
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
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
The first and only book EVER written about Electric Football is available NOW from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Here is some of the praise The Unforgettable Buzz has received: “The Unforgettable Buzz is a thoroughly researched and cleverly written study of electric football. … Continue reading
Electric football collecting in the pre-eBay era was very much a “prospector’s” type of existence. Instead of a single click bringing up an online collectibles’ cornucopia, there were lots of long drives to toy shows that didn’t offer up a … Continue reading
Electric football’s ancestral home is 176 Johnson Street in Brooklyn, NY. Tudor moved to that location in late 1945. Here’s the announcement they put out to the toy industry. And here’s just a few of the Christmas moments the Tudor … Continue reading
Electric football Holiday Greetings everyone! We’d like to wish a Happy Holiday to all of our electric football friends. We are incredibly grateful for everyone’s support and input over the last couple months. It’s been amazing. As a special “thank … Continue reading
Electric football history was made 45 years ago when Tudor brought its miniature NFL to Christmas mornings throughout the country. One of the three NFL games Tudor was offering in 1967 was the NFL No. 613 model, which was being … Continue reading
Electric football and Christmas are inseparable, so with Christmas closing in it’s time for an update on The Unforgettable Buzz. When Marvel Graphic Designer Michael Kronenberg joined the project, we were faced with a tough choice. Michael could tweak the mostly … 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
How popular was electric football in 1954? If you were Christmas shopping and walked into a toy store, you would have seen something like this…. Earl & Roddy
One of my favorite things to discover in an old electric football game – besides large teams – is a sheet of Tudor’s original press-on numbers. Most prized, of course, is an unused sheet. A sheet that’s cut but still … Continue reading
When people ask about the rarest electric football game, I have no trouble answering. It was the first electric football I ever owned, the Pressman Vibro-Power Football game. The game was a Christmas present in 1963 when I was just … Continue reading