Looking Back At Electric Football Realism – The Long View

Electric Football has many threads holding it together. The main threads are “sports” and “toys,” which tie directly into “play” and “competition.” But as we’ve started to put together our new book, Full Color Electric Football™, the most obvious thread … Continue reading

Electric Football Collecting Overview — Part II

We finished our last collecting post talking about the Tudor NFL 620 model… Tudor used the 36” x 21” 620 template from 1967-1977, including on many NFL models that were numbered something other than “620.” Not all of these large … Continue reading

Electric Football Collecting Overview – Part I

(This is part of post we wrote for the Sports Collector’s Daily web site.) Older is not automatically better in Electric Football collecting. The first Electric Football games were made by Tudor in 1949, and although yes, the early Tru-Action … Continue reading

Electric Football and the NFL Team Shop Concept

Electric Football got a lot of promotional help in the 60’s and 70’s from the NFL Team Shop concept. The Team Shop almost seems quaint now in the era where giant team mega-stores stick out of the side of each … Continue reading

Excerpt No. 2 of The Unforgettable Buzz on Sports Collectors Daily

Electric Football history has gotten a big push recently from Sports Collectors Daily, the premier destination for online sports collectors. They’ve run a series of fantastic looking excerpts from The Unforgettable Buzz on their web site, including the one pictured above. This is excerpt #2 … Continue reading