Looking back on 2014…

Electric Football had quite a year in 2014. It was a good year for Tudor Games, who held TudorCON 14 in January, then got the NFL back where it belongs in time for the football season. These are two monumental events in Electric Football history.

Part of our display at TudorCON 14.

And for us at The Unforgettable Buzz it’s been an amazing year too. It started at TudorCON 14, where we had our first Electric Football display up since 2000. We also took a special TudorCON 14 edition of The Unforgettable Buzz to Philadelphia, which we sold out completely!! Between talking over the wondrous games of the past, signing The Buzz, and answering questions, it was an experience we will never forget. One of the highlights of our entire Electric Football careers.

Unforgettable Buzz co-author Earl Shores at the Tudor Games Toy Fair booth. February 2014.

Just weeks later was an invite by Tudor Games’ President Doug Strohm to come to Toy Fair in NYC. Three full days were spent watching toy buyers excited reactions to Electric Football games that had NFL teams and NFL logos on them. It was pretty clear that 2014 would be a good year for Tudor Games.

An excerpt from The Unforgettable Buzz on Sports Collector’s Daily.

While we expected interest in The Unforgettable Buzz to subside as time moved us further from Christmas, we were pleasantly surprised by the opportunities that continued to come our way. In March, the Sports Collector’s Daily ran three excerpts from The Unforgettable Buzz on their web site, finishing the series off with a collecting column that we also penned.

In the meantime, the Minnesota Historical Society asked us to contribute to their book Toys of the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. An exciting “extra” with the book was that it was going to serve as a companion to a toy exhibit the MHS was having in the summer.

Our contribution to the book Toys of the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s.

The page they produced using our photo of Tudor President Norman Sas and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle was pretty cool. They even let us “consult” on their Electric Football text to make sure they got things right. It really was pleasure to work with them.

And that only gets us halfway through 2014….stay tuned, there’s more to come!!

Earl & Roddy