Electric football and the NFL first came together on the Gotham G-1500 model in 1961. It was a groundbreaking game on many levels. It really was, in modern terminology, a game-changer, and set the stage for all that came … 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’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
This was one of the most popular Facebook posts we ever did. It’s the 1973 Tudor Rule Book, featuring a color page with all of the NFL teams, and also Tudor’s new NFL No. 655 Championship model. It was the … 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
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
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
Although Jim Brown retired in 1966 you could still have No. 32 carrying the the ball for your large Tudor Browns in 1967. A true classic of difficult to find large teams. A reverse lineup of the Tudor NFL No. 620 … 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
Electric football really hit the “Big Time” in 1969, when Tudor and Sears teamed up to recreate in miniature the Jets-Colts Super Bowl III game. The actual Super Bowl game, which the underdog Jets won 16-7, was perhaps the most … Continue reading
Time To Play, a very influential toy web site (it was once a magazine), recently reviewed Tudor’s Power Play Electric Football game. It was a very nice review, with Time To Play seeming to grasp what electric football is about. … Continue reading
Having football players “run” on a game board was something toy makers and inventors had dreamed about long before Norman Sas took over Tudor in 1948 and invented Electric Football. So one of our goals in researching and writing The … Continue reading