Do you remember when the Greatest Games were played on your living room floor? Then you’ll want a copy of The Unforgettable Buzz, the first and only book ever written on the subject of Electric Football. It’s available now for the Holiday season from … Continue reading
Electric Football in the 1956 Sears Christmas Catalog. The game is at the top of the page. It’s the Sears exclusive Gotham G-940 Electro-Magnetic Football Game
Electric Football history was chronicled by the Christmas catalogs of Sears, Montgomery Ward, and others for over 30 years. These catalogs were a vital source of information to us as we wrote The Unforgettable Buzz. Not only did they give … Continue reading
Our publisher, One Way Road Press, is what is known in the publishing trade as a “small” publisher. So one of the things we had to come to terms in going the small publisher route was that the The Unforgettable … Continue reading
Eric Clark is author of The Real Toy Story: Inside the Ruthless Battle for America’s Youngest Consumers. It is really a seminal work on the modern toy industry, and was published by Simon & Schuster. He is a renowned investigative … Continue reading
(Note: The bulk of this text originally ran on Memorial Day.) Electric football and Veterans Day wouldn’t seem to have much of a connection. But there is an electric football story that does connect electric football to this day of … Continue reading
There are so many points in Electric Football history where a change occurred and the path of the game was forever altered. One of the truly momentous changes happened when Electric Football began appearing the in the Christmas catalogs of … Continue reading