Electric football fans will soon have a book to call their own. The design of The Unforgettable Buzz is complete and we’re preparing the book for the printer. The final stats of the book are this: 652 pages long, more than 300 photos, … Continue reading
“This is such a great book. Historical, colorful, and warm. It immediately took me back to those incredibly special days of my childhood.” — Rick Burton, David B. Falk Professor of Sports Management, Syracuse University As you can see, we … Continue reading
As a writer, it’s always disconcerting to find your words in a place where they’re not supposed to be. That happened a number of years ago when I typed “176 Johnson Street” into an Internet search engine. Shockingly, up … Continue reading
Electric football has many special items and places. This certainly ranks as one of them. It was Miggle’s NFL team room — the room where all the bags of NFL teams were stored, and where all the NFL team orders … Continue reading
Electric football’s evolution through the years will be chronicled thoroughly in The Unforgettable Buzz. And the person who contributed more to the game’s evolution than anybody else will feature prominently in our book. That person was Calvin “Lee” Payne. … Continue reading
In this segement Kathy shows us an old Tudor injection mold that came from Brooklyn. It’s a mold for bases. They are incredibly heavy, as you can see, it takes a fork lift to move the mold from one area … Continue reading
We are in the home stretch of finishing up The Unforgettable Buzz right now. Our best images are all locked in place, the text is “final,” and advance copies will soon be in the hands of some very special commentators. … Continue reading
Electric football was resurrected by Miggle Toys of Chicago in the early 1990’s. We were lucky enough to have gotten a tour of the Miggle warehouse in 1996. Our tour guide was warehouse manager Kathy Holford, who was one of our favorite … Continue reading
It’s a photo I treasure – me standing in front of 176 Johnson Street in Brooklyn. It only took 40 years to get there, and the Tudor factory I had dreamed about for so many years, was long gone. Two … Continue reading
Electric football’s appearance on The Rodricks For Breakfast Show continues… My son never sat this still in his life. We found out later that day that he had a massive ear infection (one of many…). Good thing he minded himself … Continue reading
Electric football has many classic pieces, but none are more classic then the large teams Tudor made in 1967. We’ve run some of these matchups over on our Facebook page and they’ve been quite popular. So we decided it couldn’t … Continue reading
Electric Football On The Rodricks For Breakfast Show Electric football appeared on Baltimore television station Channel 2 way back in 1999. It was the Super Bowl Sunday version of the Rodricks for Breafast Show, hosted by Baltimore Sun columnist Dan … Continue reading
When Tudor Games President Doug Strohm asked if it might be possible to meet at the American International Toy Fair this year, it was an offer I couldn’t refuse. Toy Fair is such a unique event, and such a large … Continue reading
Electric football has many special pieces: Large NFL teams, Super Bowl games, rare NFL uniforms (“yoked” Steelers), Big Bowls, AFL games, Joe Namath and Roman Gabriel quarterback figures. And the beauty of electric football is that we can all spread … Continue reading
Our friend Chris LeMay has put out his third edition of Solitaire Illustrated, a bimonthly e-zine that covers electric football. Each issue is crammed full of information, including tips on playing electric football, especially in the “solitaire” or single player … Continue reading
Electric football has a wide-ranging community. In the past we’ve talked about Tudor Games, who is still making electric football games, and also about the Miniature Football Coaches Association, who have stalwartly moved the hobby forward over the last 6 … Continue reading
Electric football and Tudor have a six decade legacy that few toys can match. So we are pleased to announce that The Unforgettable Buzz is now part of the Tudor Games Electric Football Forum. We were asked if we would … Continue reading
Electric football has had many momentous events. One of them occurred in 1996 when the Miggle Electric Football Convention opened at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago. Although it’s now referred to as the “second” Miggle Convention, at the time … Continue reading
Electric football has many great “pieces” to find when collecting old games. We talked in an earlier post about one of our favorite finds, Tudor’s original rub-on number sheets. But one of our ultimate finds is a “felt” of footballs … 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