Full Color Electric Football™
Full Color Electric Football™ is an epic 128-page all-photo journey through the history of America’s most iconic sports toy. It brings treasured memories of childhood to life, using over 250 color Electric Football images to create a collage of NFL and football dreams in miniature.
Full Color Electric Football is the second book from the writing/design team of Earl Shores, Roddy Garcia, and Michael Kronenberg. It’s the follow up to their acclaimed The Unforgettable Buzz, which in 2013 became the first book ever published about Electric Football.
This time Shores, Garcia, and Kronenberg have combined NFL history, toys, and American culture into a seamless visual display that transcends the individual elements. Not only does Electric Football become the stuff of our dreams, in Full Color Electric Football the game becomes art.
Full Color Electric Football will be published this fall and available through all major online booksellers. Keep an eye on this page for the exact date and time!
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Neat! My brother and I had one of the Tudor games. The football itself was a miniscule, felt blob. We could never get the game to operate decently, the QB to complete a pass, or the kicker to kick it anywhere on the field. All the players ended up in one corner or as an immovable mass along the sides. Either we had no clue, or we were just incompetent. In my later years as a high school and university player I never saw or was involved in a game that resembled out Tudor game. We eventually altered our players to become cannon fodder for our other toy soldiers. The book seems like fun though.
The year was about 1974 and my Father came home with a friend who had this exciting box (like a playset) with a football field, field posts and best of all, miniature football players!
I was 4 at the time so he sent us to bed, but I was so excited about this grown-up toy that I couldn’t sleep, all I could hear was the strange electric buzz and the occasional cheering of victory. Super early in the morning my brother and I crept out of bed to go and examine the mysterious game. I turned it on and all the figures vibrated over to one side. I remember the magnetic football. The next day the game was gone forever. My father said it was a stupid game and his friend brought it home. About a year later his friend gave us the game and of course being 5 and 4 by then we completely destroyed it, using the football guys as army men. But now my interest has been peaked and it time to search Ebay for research.
We used to play those games for hours, it took hours, took 5 minutes to set up your guys and 3 seconds for your guys to run the wrong way or fall over. Passing was ridiculous. I think I still have some of my players.
Had the Tudor football, baseball, and basketball games as a kid – probably 9 or 10 years old, so around 1960, ’61. Junky, but fond memories. “Baseball” was a square magnet that the “pitcher”, spring loaded plastic catapult type gizmo, flipped onto a square litho “batter’s box” & you whacked it from behind with a spring loaded plastic “bat” that knocked it to stick onto the litho field & runners vibrated around bases. Noisy as all hell to whack the tin to hit the “ball” into play. BANG!!!!!! Parents would yell, “DO YOU HAVE TO MAKE ALL THAT NOISE?!#@*!!???” Completed a football pass literally ONCE to my fullback, #4. HAH!!
The HOCKEY GAME was the best of the bunch!
Fast & exciting!!!
Santa brought me a large Tudor game, complete with cardboard cutouts of fans and a working dial scoreboard. This was right before the NFL/AFL merger so the side of the playing field had the names and logos only of the NFL teams. I was a Browns fan and, surprise, the Browns and Giants were included. Yes, many minutes of setting up players, only to have them dance on the sidelines, or go where no player would ever go. The unpainted quarterback could never throw or kick the cotton footballs was usually the first player to be held out of the game. A frustrating toy with so much poteential. Eventually, the game was placed under my bed, forgotten, and moved with us several times.
Even as a kid I always wondered if these games were scams, or merely cruel jokes played on us by adults. If you check online this industry is still going strong with adults in big leagues. Maybe I am still missing something.