It was an Electric Football sellout! A sincere “thank you” to everyone who came to TudorCon 14 and purchased a copy of the Designer’s Cut Edition of The Unforgettable Buzz. We sold every copy that we brought to Philadelphia, running … Continue reading
It was in a conversation in the days leading up to TudorCON 14 that René Smith mentioned he had a 1968 Tudor Super Bowl game. This left us a bit puzzled, and even more so when René added that it … Continue reading
Electric Football was created by Tudor President Norman in 1948 and first sold by Tudor in 1949. Yet Tudor has a history that stretches back all the way to 1928, with the company making a number of toys and games … Continue reading
Electric Football got off to a “super nova” start in 2014 thanks to TudorCON 14. Tudor Games President Doug Strohm officially opened the event on Friday evening, January 24, debuting the newly designed Tudor Electric Football games that would host … Continue reading
Electric Football was seemingly rediscovered by numerous ad agencies in 2013. From RGIII and Subway, to McDonalds, to Chick-fil-A, to ESPN, and finally Google, with their YouTube Ad Blitz video promo. Without a doubt the YouTube Ad is clever. The … Continue reading
A red Honda pulls up in front of the Embassy Suites Philadelphia Airport hotel mid-afternoon on Friday, January 24…the whirlwind begins. Okay, we need a cart to get our stuff in, oh hey, there’s Jim Davis, and that’s Adrian Baxter, … Continue reading
Electric Football has come a LONG way – that’s the overriding feeling as we try to gather our thoughts on the recently finished TudorCON 14 Electric Football Convention. From Chicago in 1996 to Philly in 2014 is a lot of … Continue reading
It’s hard to believe that TudorCON 14 is finally here. That a convention like this would ever happen again…it didn’t seem likely a few years ago. But not only is it happening, Doug Strohm and Tudor Game are bringing new … Continue reading
Electric Football in the news…we’d like to send a big “Thank You” to Paul Lukas and Dennis Check at Uni-Watch.com for “An Ode To Electric Football.” It was a really wonderful piece that ran yesterday on the Uni-Watch web site … 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
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