1970 Coleco Grey Cup game. Photo by David Hawkins.
Electric Football TudorCON 14 Buzz display continued….Next up we chose to display a 1970 CFL Coleco Grey Cup game. We like this game because Coleco first entered Electric Football in 1970, and the extra twist of dual 50-yard lines, CFL logos, and 12-player teams help it be more eye-catching than the large Pro-Stars Coleco model made for the U.S. market. As for the provenance of this game, it was found on the back room shelves of a long-closed Canadian hardware store. We’ve speculated that it was a display game because the grandstand is folded and creased so exactly that it stays completely in place once the pieces are all mounted.
Tudor’s 1971 Super Bowl V Electric Football game. It was a Sears’ exclusive. Photo by David Hawkins.
Just past the 1970 Coleco CFL model we had the 1971 Colts-Cowboys Tudor Super Bowl game. It was sold exclusively by Sears, and was the last Electric Football Super Bowl to have the Lombardi trophy at mid-field. Actually, it was one of only three Super Bowl models to ever display the trophy (the other being the Sears’ Super Bowl games from 1969 and 1970). There are also two NFL helmets on the field framing the trophy — two features which were not present on the actual Super Bowl field in the Orange Bowl. The end zones contain “AFC” and “NFC” instead of team names. This is how the end zones would look on all the rest of the Super Bowl models that Tudor ever made.
Tudor’s 1977 Super Bowl XI Electric Football game with the Raiders and Vikings.
Our next Super Bowl was the 1977 J.C. Penney model with the Vikings and the Raiders. This game is significant because it was a “first” and a “last.” It was the first Super Bowl to come with a totally modern field configuration – goal posts on the end line and hash pulled in to line up with the uprights. But…it was the last No. 620-sized Super Bowl made by Tudor. A great looking game with the oversized Tudor grandstand.
Still more to come….
Earl & Roddy
More of The Unforgettable Buzz Electric Football display at TudorCON 14.