Things were very busy in the Electric Football world at the end of 2015. In fact, things got so busy that we didn’t get around to our annual end of the year round up.
Of course, the event at the top of our 2015 list….
- Full Color Electric Football was published! We’re so proud to get our 2nd book out to everyone. It was a true labor of love and took some intense weeks to get things fully finalized and ready for publication. Michael’s design work had been blowing us away since the earliest pages, so we were eager to get it out. How cool is that Electric Football timeline?
- Uni-Watch ranked Full Color Electric Football at No. 3 on their Holiday Gift Guide. This was truly a gift to us, to have Uni-Watch editor Paul Lukas hold up our book in a video on the ESPN web site.
- The Unforgettable Buzz went to college! It was beyond our wildest dreams to ever think that a book about Electric Football history would ever be considered “academic.” But there we were, being toted to a classroom at the University of Central Florida during the Spring semester!
- Pages and photos from The Unforgettable Buzz appeared in the Errol Morris ESPN Electric Football documentary. It was a thrill to watch pages and photos from The Buzz pass by in a Electric Football collage during “The Subterranean Stadium.” Mr. Morris captured something special during in his film. And we got a great credit at the end of the film.
Pages 82 and 138 as they appeared the ESPN Electric Football documentary.
- Unveiled our new Full Color Electric Football web site. Dedicated solely to our new book, we now have twice as many ways to keep busy every week.
- Finished our Top 20 Electric Football Games Countdown. We had so much fun doing this, and got a lot of great feedback about the games — even when you disagreed with our choices!
- Celebrated the 3rd Birthday of The Unforgettable Buzz blog in July 2015. This might not seem like much, but most blogs don’t last 6 months. (Right now there are more than 280 post on this site!) We might not be the smartest, or the most SEO savvy people to ever run a blog, but we are one thing — determined. Otherwise we would have never published one book, let alone a second one.
So, a BIG “thank you” to everyone out there who has been along for ride, and who have helped keep this amazing 3.5 year Electric Football ride just keep going and going and going…We are humbled by your continued support.
Here’s to a memorable 2016!
Earl, Roddy, & MK
Loved both books. I always wondered if the orange helmet broncos exist, there pictured with the 67 AFL teams. Does anyone know if they were ever produced?
Charles, thanks so much! We’re glad you enjoyed our work. We’ve never seen the orange helmet Broncos like the ones in the 1967 Tudor Rule Book. That figure would have been painted well in advance of the actual player production in Hong Kong. In 1966, when this figure was painted, the Broncos were wearing orange helmets. They changed to blue helmets for 1967, and that’s how Tudor was instructed by the AFL to paint the team. With the blue helmet that we find on the large 1967 Tudor Broncos today.