GreenBayGlenn

I had my entire collection of stories, stats, photos, etc. (never put all your eggs in one basket they say) all loaded on the Homestead.com (do it yourself website and hosting service) website which got bought out by Intuit. All my EF sites were wiped out. 😞 This caused great trauma and was one of the hardest losses I've ever endured in life. I'm still traumatized to this day. Nevermind the countless hours that went into building those sites, but the resources I lost are irreparable. Included in that was my entire list of UNREAL SOLITAIRE ELECTRIC FOOTBALL LEAGUE teams. Fortunately, I printed out a few pages off the Internet years ago and I've recovered 30 of the 50 teams I created! If anyone remembers any team not on this list, please let me know. I'll post the list here next.

Thanks for the welcome back as well Daryl! I'm your "other brother Darrell" (Bob Newhart reference), as my first name is Darrell! I've never used it except on taxes and Driver's licenses. I've gone by Glenn my entire life. My father's name was Darrell, so I guess Glenn helped avoid confusion when mom would yell at Darrell on the home front! LOL

Alrighty then! Good to see this chat board is actually working! I responded to some really old posts and wondered if everyone was still here. Terry, that Knights in White Satin is an all time forever EXCELLENT name for a team! I love it! That one blew me away. I can just hear that song blasting at the start of every game as the team buzzes onto the field! And, yes, nefgm.org (still trying to guess your real name here) I have seen that National Electric Football Game Museum and that is also off the charts GREAT! I will keep looking at that often just like I used to stare at the Tudor Rule book at those color 67 Big Man team uniforms. I think that is still the best group picture of EF teams ever taken! I wish there was a way to make a big quality print of that and frame it and put it on my wall here! I'm in the process of remodeling my garage to make space for EF play, storage etc. while at the same time installing a big screen TV, new frig, workout equipment, massage chair (yes, I'm now "well stricken in years" as King James would say, and a play area for my twin grandkids (now 10 years old and at a critical age to implant electric football ideas into their newly connecting neurons!).

...and suddenly, out of nowhere, the SwampMoose is back! Great post! How's this for a fast response....hmmm, only took 3 years! Yikes! I can't imagine that! I'm reading all your posts as I play catch-up here. Yes, I met Jesus who rose me from the dead and I'm back full force into this hobby again! Got way to serious with the working life for too many years, then raised a pair of grandkids, etc. Enough of the excuses already! I'm here now and that's what counts. Got any pics from that convention? I'm still plowing through thumb drives and such trying to find my own, but no luck so far. I'm trying to piece together my UNREAL SOLITAIRE EFL again and any help would be greatly appreciated. Is there any chance I emailed you a list of all my teams? I got up to 50 at one point. I may never finish painting that many teams in this lifetime, but I'm going to give it a try. I better quit typing now so I can go read all your posts! 🙂

Hey Zak, thanks for the Solv-a-set tip! I used that in the past myself with decals and I had forgotten about it until I saw your post! Now I have to go back to Amazon and order that stuff to add to my collection as I get ramped up to start painting and decaling again. Speaking of decals, I'll still buy mine from the experts in the hobby, but I also want to learn how to do them myself. What do I need to pull that off? If anyone can tell me what kind of software, printer, paper, etc. I need I would greatly appreciate it.

Great post! I'm addicted to uniform sites. As far as I'm concerned, (and I am concerned very far!), you can never have enough uniform sites posted. I'm a paint-a-holic, so keep this up! Thanks. 🙂

How about those blue Minnesota Vikings Tudor shipped out to unsuspecting buyers? The very first team I ordered from Tudor in 1969, with my hard-earned money from mowing my neighbors yard was the Vikings. I was still in elementary school. It took forever for that box to arrive. When I opened it up, I had blue Vikings! One of my friends in school, who I thought was rich because he had ALL the teams, told me I should send Tudor a letter and say "I ordered the Minnesota Vikings, not the St. Louis Blues!" LOL I never forgot that. I went down the street I lived on to the T.G.&Y store and bought some Testors purple paint and painted them myself. They won the Super Bowl in my solitaire league right away. Of course, they only had to play against the Packers and Colts to get there! This was before I expanded my league over the next couple of years as I started making the "big bucks" by mowing more than just the neighbor's yard. Decades later, I started collecting just about everything and I bought several "original" hog leg blue Vikings teams on eBay, just for nostalgia. (Hey, wait a minute here! This AI is scary! In that last sentence, just after I typed the word "for" the computer put in the word "nostalgia" for me, before I even typed the "n"! Amazing, but still scary! ) By the way, great to "see" you again NO Dave! It's been a while. You do great work!

You can count me in this group now. I started painting in 1968. I used to be a Testor's-only painter for the early years. But as I turned into an old geezer, I switched over to acrylics. I will still use Testors when needed on certain colors. I last painted in 2006, so it has been a while. Now in 2023, I'm coming "out of retirement in the hobby" as I retire in real life to get back into my favorite EF hobby! I just bought a ton of paints, paint brushes, giant magnifying glass, and got a new prescription (after 25 years, believe it or not) for my glasses now so I'm good to go. I am anxious to see if I can still do it, and if I can't, then I'll hunker down and keep at it until I return to form! 🙂 I agree with the earlier post about this being therapeutic. I've already had some healing and restoration done (from me missing my favorite hobby for too many years working too much) just by making this post and imagining how much fun it is going to be to get started again. Time for my 2nd childhood at age 63! LOL Of course, I've been "aging in reverse" for the past few years, so I see myself as 36! Works for me anyway! I better nip this post in the bud before I accidentally post an e-book up in here!