Cover of The Unforgettable Buzz
Electric football’s story will soon be told. It won’t be long before “The Buzz” arrives…..
Monthly Archives: April 2013
The First Official NFL Electric Football Game – Gotham’s G-1500
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
Sample Page From The Unforgettable Buzz – Joe Namath
Electric football fans will soon have a book to call their own. The design of The Unforgettable Buzz is complete and we’re preparing the book for the printer. The final stats of the book are this: 652 pages long, more than 300 photos, … Continue reading
Getting Closer…Back Cover and More
“This is such a great book. Historical, colorful, and warm. It immediately took me back to those incredibly special days of my childhood.” — Rick Burton, David B. Falk Professor of Sports Management, Syracuse University As you can see, we … Continue reading
The Toy Factory — 176 Johnson Street in 2013
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 History – Video of the Miggle NFL Team Room
Electric football has many special items and places. This certainly ranks as one of them. It was Miggle’s NFL team room — the room where all the bags of NFL teams were stored, and where all the NFL team orders … Continue reading
Lee Payne – Tudor and Electric Football’s “All-Pro” Designer
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
Opening Tudor’s Electric Football Injection Mold For Bases – Miggle Warehouse Video
Electric football games have lots of parts, with one of the most important parts being the bases the players run on. During our Miggle warehouse tour Kathy was kind enough to have one of the old Tudor base injection molds … Continue reading
Favorite Reads — The Real Toy Story by Eric Clark
Electric football is the main focus of The Unforgettable Buzz, but the toy industry and its inner workings play a major role in the story of Norman Sas, Lee Payne, and Tudor Games. One of our favorite reads on the … Continue reading
Miggle Warehouse Tour Part II — Base Injection Molds
In this segement Kathy shows us an old Tudor injection mold that came from Brooklyn. It’s a mold for bases. They are incredibly heavy, as you can see, it takes a fork lift to move the mold from one area … Continue reading