Munro Lights Up Electric Football Munro Games was the one making Electric Football headlines at the 1972 Toy Fair. The company showed up with something that had never been seen before in Electric Football. An Electric Football game with working … Continue reading
A New Competitor in Coleco Tudor’s success with Electric Football enticed a third toy maker onto the vibrating gridiron in 1970. That company was Coleco, who was no stranger to the sports toy market thanks to their successful line … Continue reading
The AFL Gets Electric Football Respect Tudor expanded their Electric Football line to include an Official AFL game in 1968. The AFL No. 520 model came with the Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Jets, with the Jets being … Continue reading
Electric Football Goes Color Montgomery Ward puts Electric Football on a color page. Because color printing was an expensive process in 1958, Ward would have deliberated long and hard about what toys should be presented in color. It’s significant that … Continue reading
One of our all-time favorite Tudor Electric Football games is the 1977 J.C. Penney No. 660 Super Bowl . This game is significant because it’s the last Tudor Super Bowl game made in the traditional Tudor Super Bowl configuration – … Continue reading
Our Electric Football Top 20 Countdown concludes with Game No. 1 — the 1967 Tudor NFL No. 620 with the Browns and Giants. There are more colorful Electric Football games, there are more elaborate Electric Football games, and as we’ve seen … Continue reading
The Electric Football Game Countdown moves down to game No. 3 – the 1970 Tudor No. 633 Super Bowl. This game is a landmark in both toy and Electric Football history. In terms of visibility and economics, it may have … Continue reading
We are big fans of the web site Uni Watch, which, as its name implies, keeps a watch on sports uniforms both old and new. Their subtitle, “The Obsessive Study Of Athletic Aesthetics,” means they sweat the details of what … Continue reading
On Halloween night in 1966 the Cardinals hosted the Bears in the newly opened Busch Stadium. The game was nationally televised, and the Cardinals prevailed over the Bears 24 -17. The significance of this game was that it happened on … Continue reading
Things were very busy in the Electric Football world at the end of 2015. In fact, things got so busy that we didn’t get around to our annual end of the year round up. Of course, the event at the … Continue reading
Electric Football is making its mark in 2015, as our new Full Color Electric Football™ book landed at No. 3 on the Uni Watch/ESPN Holiday Gift Guide list!! Watch just past the 2 minute mark of this ESPN video as … Continue reading
Electric Football production pieces of any kind are exceedingly rare. That’s because they weren’t viewed as anything “special” at the time they were created. Their purpose was simple — to be part of the industrial process of making a toy. Or … Continue reading
Big Tudor AFL players in Full Color Electric Football Full Color Electric Football™ was a labor love. It was all about putting together Electric Football images that we love, images that were inspired by our memories of that first Tudor … Continue reading
We are pleased and proud to announce the official publication of our new book Full Color Electric Football™. It’s been quite the “drive” to get this thing into the end zone, including a few tricky “third-and-long” conversions. Our hopes were … Continue reading
By now we’ve all noticed the gold 50-yard line numbers being used by the NFL. The league is doing this to honor the upcoming 50th Super Bowl game, since 50 years, at least in marriage terms, is known as the … Continue reading
We are thrilled to announce that fullcolorelectricfootball.com is now “live” and online! This new website is the official home of our upcoming Full Color Electric Football™ book. The site has been in the works for some time, and will hopefully be the … Continue reading
In last week’s post we talked about Tudor’s Electric Football painters in Hong Kong. The job they did getting all those tiny NFL teams painted and ready for Tudor was amazing. It was hard work, but they were rewarded well … Continue reading
It’s hard to believe that we’ve been writing about Electric Football for over THREE years now on The Unforgettable Buzz web page. As we mentioned last year, we just didn’t think there was that much to say! But how wrong … Continue reading
It was two years ago today that our Electric Football history book The Unforgettable Buzz was published. The long odyssey to getting published was one thing, and the odyssey we’ve been on since June 26, 2013 and been something else … Continue reading
It was our pleasure to appear on The Knee Jerks 6th Anniversary Podcast last night to talk about our upcoming Full Color Electric Football book. This was our 3rd time on the show. Hosts Greg Eno and Al Beaton are … Continue reading