The Mystery Man of Tudor and Electric Football – Joe Modica

Most electric football aficionados know that Norman Sas invented the game, and that Lee Payne took the design of electric football to levels of realism that were only once dreamed of. But there was another person who played the designer … Continue reading

Electric Football NFL Week 3 Preview – Big 1967 Raiders vs. Big 1967 Steelers

Back when these two teams were first available from Tudor, the real life AFL Raiders would have easily handled the NFL Steelers. The Steelers in 1967 were worse than my Eagles, going 4-9-1 while finishing at the bottom of the … Continue reading

Pressman Vibro Power Football – Rarest Electric Football Game of All?

When people ask about the rarest electric football game, I have no trouble answering. It was the first electric football I ever owned, the Pressman Vibro-Power Football game. The game was a Christmas present in 1963 when I was just … Continue reading

Electric Football NFL Preview – Baltimore Ravens vs. 1967 “BIG” Philadelphia Eagles

Some of you already know that I’m an Eagles fan. The first live NFL game I saw was the Eagles vs. the Baltimore Colts on September 24, 1967. My dad and I sat way up in the upper deck of … Continue reading

Coleco’s Electric Football Debut – What’s Wrong With This Picture?

When Coleco jumped into electric football in 1970, it produced some very striking games. The company had done its homework well. Coleco’s games were solidly built and featured inviting graphics, on the field and off. The large 3-D grandstands were … Continue reading

Ranking Electric Football In Toy History

Quantifying Electric Football’s popularity through the years is a difficult task. The obvious way would be to measure sales figures, but those figures, at least for years when the game was at its peak, are lost to history. (our book The … Continue reading

Before Electric Football – Part 1

Having football players “run” on a game board was something toy makers and inventors had dreamed about long before Norman Sas took over Tudor in 1948 and invented Electric Football. So one of our goals in researching and writing The … Continue reading