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Electric Football

InTheBuff

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Who remembers these ? Did you have one ?
I got mine as a Christmas gift in 1978. Came with the Steelers and Cowboys but also got the AFC West as to have the Broncos.
I was always losing those little footballs.

The inventor of the game died recently.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/08/norman-sas-inventor-of-electric-football-dies-at-87/

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I had the 78 dallas-steelers as well. Bought the dolphins, then bought another field at a garage sale and got da bears and the vikings with it. I could never master that bootleg QB passing contraption.
 
I must have gotten one of the first ones made for Christmas in '60 or '61 ... well before they hooked up with the NFL. There were just two generic teams so you had to use your imagination.

There was an art to adjusting the little plastic tabs on the bases of the players to speed them up. If you bent them too much, it actually slowed them down IIRC.

Nevertheless, it was a technological improvement over "Foto-Electric Football" ... does anyone remember that game? Is anyone else that old? :huh:
 
L Buff said:
I must have gotten one of the first ones made for Christmas in '60 or '61 ... well before they hooked up with the NFL. There were just two generic teams so you had to use your imagination.

There was an art to adjusting the little plastic tabs on the bases of the players to speed them up. If you bent them too much, it actually slowed them down IIRC.

Nevertheless, it was a technological improvement over "Foto-Electric Football" ... does anyone remember that game? Is anyone else that old? :huh:
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No, but I also had "ABC's Talking Monday Night Football"

mattel_talking_monday_night_football.jpg
 
Never had one but I could definetly think about buying something like that and using my imagination. Have some questions below:

Where would there be a good place to get that game board?

Where would I be able to go and buy the players and be able to paint them because suppose I want to have all Pac-12 teams?
 
InTheBuff said:
Who remembers these ? Did you have one ?
I got mine as a Christmas gift in 1978. Came with the Steelers and Cowboys but also got the AFC West as to have the Broncos.
I was always losing those little footballs.

The inventor of the game died recently.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/08/norman-sas-inventor-of-electric-football-dies-at-87/

pic105040.jpg
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We had an electric football game, but ours was a generic field and two generic teams. No NFL stuff at all.

We had the one with the magnetic "arm" that you could use to control one player on each team. Which basically meant instead of that player going off in totally random directions every play, that one guy would just go off in a sort of random direction most plays... :lol:

We also lost the footballs that went with the game. In my mind, the football in those games is supposed to be a pinto bean. Because that's what we always used...
 
NashBuff said:
Never had one but I could definetly think about buying something like that and using my imagination. Have some questions below:

Where would there be a good place to get that game board?

Where would I be able to go and buy the players and be able to paint them because suppose I want to have all Pac-12 teams?
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the board game
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TALKING-abc...225?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item22f92cbe99

very expensive :wow: why did I get rid of mine ?? :cry:

looks like you can get white base players to paint for a decent price here

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-5-Vi...240?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ab96a2d28

and the electric football field is priced under $19.00 here
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Tud...127?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3378184f17
 
I had a pretty nice one like the one above with the AFC and NFC end zones and the NFL logo in the middle. It was cool how you could order all the teams in both their white and colored jerseys, I think I had 4 of 5 teams. But it always looked much better than it played, I hated it when the guy with the ball would go the wrong way or a guy would just be out there going around in circles. :lol:
 
you know what sucked the worst about electric football? the footballs. they were these little crappy pieces of felt and they were freaking tiny and fragile. they barely resembled footballs. after a few games, kicking one of those sumbitches was like kicking a spitwad with a damp piece of string. and passing? forget it. flying veer offense FTMFW every time.

loved the noise of it! and the pageantry! setting up those plays and watching my RB go straight up the gut for 70 yards and a TD was epic.

did i mention i miss the wishbone?

:lol:
 
in my set, it was the cowboys and the broncos, as they had been in the super bowl the previous year. Loved the game, even though it was quite possibly the most useless toy ever. The players only moved if you cranked the current up so loud that your ears bled, and then all players just scattered. I loved how the directions actually thought that the "plays" they drew up would actually work.

Funny though, the mechanical QB you brought on when you wanted to pass sort of resembled Tim Tebow, in both throwing motion and accuracy.
 
My Grandmother picked one up at a garage sale when I was a kid.It was Broncos and Cowboys.Had more fun seeing the cat spooked by it than actually playing it.
 
Liver said:
you know what sucked the worst about electric football? the footballs. they were these little crappy pieces of felt and they were freaking tiny and fragile. they barely resembled footballs. after a few games, kicking one of those sumbitches was like kicking a spitwad with a damp piece of string. and passing? forget it. flying veer offense FTMFW every time.

loved the noise of it! and the pageantry! setting up those plays and watching my RB go straight up the gut for 70 yards and a TD was epic.

did i mention i miss the wishbone?

:lol:
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hated that felt....
 
Spent way too many hours on mine making up blocking combinations that I now realize were almost all illegal formations. Wish I were smart as a kid and ordered about 500 footballs for it as I spent more time looking for the footballs than I did playing.
 
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