Electric Football In The Modern Age 

I loved playing my electric football game as a kid in the 1970's and am glad to see that people, young and old, are still playing this great game!

It's basically wargaming but with a mechanism that moves the base rather than using a set of rules to determine how the models move. Nice stuff.

I had the 620 Superbowl model and now wish I had never gotten rid of it years ago, but it became a hassle to lug around from duty station to duty station. I should've just kept it at my parent's house. I remember playing for hours and hours. The players rarely did what I wanted them to do (mainly ran around in circles) but that was part of the challenge of the game!

As a longtime tabletop wargamer I am just enthralled at ya'lls passion for your hobby and completely understand your sentiment! Hobby on, and enjoy!

I dont like the suggestion that EF is a counter to video games. People can have multi-faceted interests. I play video games, play guitar, travel the world, write creatively, and might even pick up EF. One doesn't have to negate the other! :)

My brother and I created a 24 team league that we played a 10 game schedule for each team. It was so much fun. !! We even kept statistics and compiled the data and had league leaders just like the newspaper. It was all very organized and we even typed out all the info and had a standings page! Great stuff- we were really into it!

Those old school football fields, WOW! The Chargers old field was awesome! Love it!

great game grew up watching my dad and his friends play electric football back in the late 70's to the early 90's

This is interesting. Props to those who found happiness with it. I aways wondered how it worked.

This is just Warhammer for sports fans I love it.

I remember this game fondly. I probably spent hundreds of hours playing this game as a kid. It was my indoor obsession. I painted my teams and invested blood sweat and tears into the game. I hope a new generation can come to love the game as I did. It's great to see these older guys, some from my generation, still loving the ggame and actively involded iin it.

Thanks ! Thanks to everyone and anyone out there keeping electric football alive. Loved this game as a kid. Fond memories.

Beautiful documentary. The noise of this game drove me away during the 1970s. The chaos interested me. Now that I have reached adulthood I am beginning to understand storytelling.

This is so cool. Good for these guys. This is so positive and wonderful. Strategy, socializing, teamwork, patience, competition… this is soooo effin cool

This was really cool Tudor Games. Thanks for putting a spotlight on this. !GG and keep it going. : )

Tudor games have always worked well for me. My older sets sometimes work better. Hard to beat the metal surface for consistency. The newer ones work fine though. Big thing is you have to put them on a totally level surface.

This is Awesome! All the people involved seems like a great hobby.😎💯

I got Electric Football Games and Slot Car Tracks for Christmas and Birthdays many times growing up in the Seventies and very early Eighties.. They were my Two Favorite Toys.

Kind of strange that you don't show any games being played. But nice to see it is still around. I played it in the late 50's and early 60's all the time with my pals.

I recently moved earlier this year….while moving I cleaned out my attic. I found my electric football game (field and all 28 teams) from the early 80’s. What a memory and was too cool. Respect to all of these folks!!!

Just ordered a Steelers Pro Bowl set, looking forward to learning the ropes.

My brother and I spent many hours engaged in mortal combat on the electric football field. I can vividly remember us getting grounded from it when we decided to add a little extra “excitement” to it as only a 10 and 12 year old set of brothers can. We dosed both lines in lighter fluid, lit up and my halfback, and sent him on an off tackle power run. Watching both lines go up in flames like the the Hindenburg was an EPIC experience. Moms just don’t understand what fun really is .................

I'm gonna buy a board soon. Haven't had one since 1990.

Everyone interviewed says the same thing. "Were the coach, GM & players all at the same time.". Inter est ing...

This is Madden before Madden.My older brother had one I remember playing with it when I was a kid.I didn’t realize it was an actual board game.

Changing the different position of the players and reshaping them started out in Norfolk Virginia. We was the first to do it Darryl Smith is one of the all-time greats in that.

I had one of these. Also had the manual hockey game with the plastic skaters. My fave though was this little hockey game from radio shack that a little puck and little players. Loved it.

Love the story. I would like to see more of the custom build, scale fields. I'd like to see more of the artistry involved in the figures and how they function.

It's great that these people are enjoying this game. My friends and I use to play this game back in the early '60's. We painted our teams and had leagues like today's players. The game board back then was metal, but you could adjust the speed of the game, slowing it down to see if a play is downed or is missed. I gave all my teams to my son and wonder if he ever kept them. I think I'll ask. Good luck, have fun. JN

This is friggen awesome! I haven't played electric football since the 1970s. I almost want to buy a set & start playing again.

I can watch this video almost a million times - this will always be a classic video for the hobby-sport...

These men are true athletes

My Dad. Got Us Electric Football Back In 1970 s For Christmas, We Used To Play It All The Time , We Had A Friend Named Christian From Germany , We Would Go To His House And Play Electric Football , He Was A Little Older Then Us , Im 55 Now And Wow I Didn't Know That There Was A League For This , Cool , Showed The Video To My 15 Year Old Son , He Was Like What ? Electric Football , Thats Cool.

I’m with the lady from Baltimore!! East Baltimore here!! Go Ravens!! Big truss!

For a doc all about one thing how do you come so close without ever even showing a play? What was the point?

I have a feeling like 2 decades from now this is going to a huge event.

An excellent introduction to the game of Electric Football

Just ordered my gameset and pieces always wanted one when i was younger

There was also a floor football game with about 6" players, a running back on a motor base, and the linebackers on wheeled metal bases. I think the quarterback was the kicker too.

The Hulk sound a little like Cleveland Brown

I used to play Electric Football as a kid, had an awesome time with it. But your definition of "Video Games" is completely wrong. Even young kids have Xbox Live, or Playstation Network. This allows them to talk and meet other people from around the WORLD, not just locally. If your an older gamer, your most likely using a PC, and using Discord or Team Speak to communicate with other like minded gamers. I have friends in the U.K, Norway, Finland, Australia, Spain, Ireland, Kuwait, Belgium, people I've forged friendships with for over 15 years of PC Gaming. I'm sorry, but the days of Kids, or older gamer's talking to a screen are from the 80's. It's a whole new ball game. Great video, was still very cool to see.

2:10 is an older EDP445

People who think that folks stare at the controller while playing a video game have never played a video game, Most of the games I play require communication and strategy to accomplish the goal.

Marshall gets the ball. He's running in a circle. AND A LOOK AT HIM GO! He's taking another lap! He's at the 40... to the 30... the 20... back to the 30... around to the 40 again! And to the 30! Can the defense stop him?!

Wow its amazing because me and my two older brothers had one of these games. But what really amazed me is they held the championship here in my hometown of Richmond Va.

2:27 that mustache fake af 🤣🤣🤣

Shout out to John Dicarlo... reppin' my home town!

this is look very cool! considering buying a starting set and giving it a try.

Funny enough, Chris Bopst (the first guy to speak n the video) is a founding member of the metal band GWAR!

I remember finding the game under my uncle's bed in my grandparents house in the mid 80's. It was completely metal, probably from the 40's, most of the players were there, and the football was this small white q-tip of a ball. Never really understood how to play, but it was LOUD!

Awesome. Hours of fun.

Still have mine from late 70s with Bradshaw on the box.

Great documetary on my favorite hobby

These guys are legends God bless them

Sharpton has never looked so good!

Used to be soooo into electric football, but now I move on to the big times. Now it's all about electric volleyball, the future of electric vibrating sports.

Oh wow this is a throwback for real. But nothing wrong with this if it makes them happy.

79 80 i would hear that humming noise from kirchen my bro and his friend i couldnt go in the kitchen he would make me get out😢😓 this game has come along way always wanted one

what the!? they actually have electric football league tournaments? 😧

I had this game when I was 7. I was mad I got it for Christmas. Lol

Something that brings all ethnic groups together and builds friendships is awesome in my eyes. Cool to see how happy these people are and its cool to see people taking pride in something like this.

Great doc, but tudor needs to bring back metal fields and have reliable bases come with the set if they want to see it catch on. As of right now the fields are small and made of cardboard with bases that move randomly. Most kids aren't gonna care enough to go find pliers and tweak bases

This is a real life Christopher Guest movie.

whoever edited this video chose an extremely strange filter.

14:15 the golddust of electric football lol

I have one of your sets from the early 40s. In working condition, with those felt footballs and that metal, spring operated kicker/passer that was waaaay too strong. It will fling one of those little footballs across the room!

This is absolutely fascinating

I love the competition. One-on-one. But not sure how much strategy is involved.

I see MY BOY DARRELL D-LEGEND SMITH!!!!! HEY MAN REP THE 757!!!!

the passing never worked right but we formed a league as kids

Such a great video; not a player but it makes a fantastic case why you all are. Well done!

This was awesome!

A lot of fun too watch this

Rather play this than Madden

2:20 is no one going to talk about this guys moustache?

Wow! How awesome is this.

13:13 i really like how people think that all you have to do to play a video game is stare at the controller and flail your fingers around.

People are wonderful

when is the next convention or tournament

These people must think you can not talk to other people while playing video games, they are fixated on that.

I need this

D Legend u still doing your thing I see I use 2 play in the YMCA in tidewater park with Darryl. If u see this post how i link with u.

This is kinda like a electric version of ‘Subbuteo’. Im from the UK, and Subbuteo has a very big following. Its a soccer game where you flick the figures so its not electric. But it is very similar. Although personally i prefer the look of the electric football.

I want Tudor gear!

Can use GPS, maps and compass.

Looks fuckin cool to me. When you find something like that your passionate about, fuck what other people think about it. In the end you have to live in your own skin. Ive been fixated with video games since I was 6, starting with the atari 2600 in 86. It still gets negative associations even though its very popular now. Never got along with people in general so didnt give a shit. Thirty three years later the passion has only grown stronger. Im also a weightlifter of 25 years. Though into more of the darker aspects of it, and not for health. The abuse comes at a price and your body cant continue that brutality for ever without breaking down. With games I can get all that intensity out of my system by taking on extreme challenges, but without destroying myself completely. Gaming was always my true passion. The lifting was born out of trying to manage mental demons. Ive turned my focus even heavier in that direction now and get much more satisfaction from that, then previous lifts and size increases when training.

I had one of these games in 81 but just give me some Madden 2020 and I'm good..

Saw the football lights, thought they were silicon implants, leaving video with comment.

Do not forget the cardboard bleachers

If anyone could put me in touch with Sheila Scott's husband - they showed him briefly with what looked like an incredible WVU team setup - I'd very much appreciate it. Thank you!

i loved this game

@15:48 That's what hobbies are all about!

its an awesome hobby. keep it up!!!!!

The nerdy side of football

Enjoying the video until the boomers started hating on video games

So it's football with HEXBUGs

If I lived in the US I'd love to try that game.

This guy's name is jim the hulk davis, Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno did a much better job playing the hulk on television than this guy would have done. Electric football can be played by anyone of any age.

If I don’t see a #44 Chuck Foreman figure ..

Should make this remote control and then they're on to something