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LIEFL #25 Ranked New York Jets (60-80) vs. LIEFL #11 Ranked Buffalo Bills (76-74) after this win! What a game! The last great showing for the Long Island Electric Football League New York Jets was in 2008 when they captured the 32-Team "Throwback Tournament" in New York City. They crumbled in our regular 7-game season to our surprise. No Miracles in 08' New York style, but in true fashion Long Island Electric Football League's 2017 Super Bowl XIII MVP, OJ Simpson put on another show against these division rival Jets, who went (1-6) in 2019. The Jets played the Bills strong! After picking up 4 new Drafts in the 2020 Draft, the front line produced 107 yards on the ground for Bruce Harper, who's long run was 28 yards. Klecko, Hill, and Gastineau performed to the Bills level. They will not be walked on this season and this schedule will be a huge challenge for New York as they have to take on the NFC West, the toughest division in our league. This time around Jets All-Time leading rusher Bruce Harper(#42)(Photo #2) played a great game after turning duties over to Le'Veon Bell last year due to a lackluster performance by Harper. Last season Buffalo beat the Jets 9-3, in a defensive battle in the season opener, and for the Bills they lost a heart-breaker in last year's AFC Championship Game to the LIEFL #1 Ranked Miami Dolphins (166-34), 31-21. The week before they lost to Miami, Buffalo beat the 2018 defending AFC Champion Los Angeles Chargers 49-48, in a controversial game with 11 seconds left in an argument over clock rules. The Jets who went (1-6) last season put up a fierce battle against the Bills OJ Simpson and "The Electric Company" led by LIEFL All-Pro's Marcel Dureaus and Bruce Smith. Defensive End Dee Hardison played large against New York's Winston Hill in the trenches as Simpson rushed for 78 yards on three carries and a gorgeous 50 yard touchdown run (Photo#1) around the notorious right tackle, Richie Incognito who continues to make big plays for the Bills. Simpson ended the day with 210 all-purpose yards with two touchdowns. After New York Don Maynard's 26 yard touchdown pass from Sam Darnold, Simpson and the Bills answered with a left-side sweep, returning the ball for a 100 kick return (Photo#3) touchdown, putting on the after-burners, leaving Jet defenders in the dust to take the lead for good 14-7! Buffalo is at AFC Champion and division rival Miami next week for a rematch of the Conference Championship, and for the New York Jets, they face the high-scoring San Francisco 49ers and the LIEFL #1 Rusher, Ricky Watters and Co., who set the LIEFL rushing 7-game season record last season with 925 yards rushing, with 18 touchdowns! PS IF YOU LIKE ARTICLES LIKE THIS LET ME KNOW ... it is a lot of work, but our passion is in our 8-coach league.

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LONG ISLAND ELECTRIC FOOTBALL LEAGUE WEEK#1 The LIEFL #20 Ranked Atlanta Falcons (1-0) (66-85) took on the #27 Ranked Seattle Seahawks (0-1) (49-101) in Week One! July 26, 2020. (The Georgia Dome, Atlanta Georgia). The "Beast" is back! LIEFL All-Pro and 2019 LIEFL MVP, Gerald Riggs, Long Island's Electric Football League's #1 All-Purpose player last season--who became the first 2,000 yard player with 2,339 total yards on offense with a record-crushing 21 touchdowns for the (3-4) Falcons in a seven-game season, broke loose again! Riggs stormed into the end zone with a 254 All-Purpose yards day, as the Falcons beat the tough Seattle Seahawks 17-14, with a 47 yard field goal to win the game in the Georgia Dome! Riggs busted out with a blazing 100-yard kick-return to put Atlanta ahead 14-7, but the "Lynch Mob" and Marshawn Lynch stormed right back with a 59-yard rushing touchdown of his own down the right sideline against a vulnerable Atlanta defense to tie the score at 14-14! In this see-saw battle the 67'Big Man plus-sized Riggs might be one of Tudor Games electric football freak of nature and one of the biggest running back's we've ever seen (See photo of Riggs #42 colliding with Seattle's #96 Cortez Kennedy). The newly Purchased Falcons and Seahawks were painted in 2019, in their old school throwback style uniforms. The Atlanta Falcons (3-4) in 2019, nearly made the playoffs last season, but in the last game of the season, the rising stars, New Orleans Saints beat the Falcons 26-21 in a tremendous division rival game which collapsed the Falcons hopes for the LIEFL playoffs after a record-setting season in our league! Seattle is no slouch! They played every single team tough last season. And they are on the verge of making the playoffs for the second time in their Long Island Electric Football history. Although they are a little undersized, Seahawks Marshawn Lynch plays BIG! Lynch is tough to bring down, as he rushed five times for 118 yards with two touchdowns today. Seattle played well on the road in the Falcons house, and this game went right down to the wire with both teams playing tough on defense. Gerald Riggs proved again that he will challenge opposing defenses with his size and speed as he navigates his way through another challenging schedule this season. Riggs is one of the hardest guys to stop in this League in his quest for a 3rd MVP All-Purpose title. The Falcons can play anybody on any given day with the talent they have. Tudor made some BEEF on this front line. The Falcons need improvement on defense, but they will score BIG if teams in tournaments can match their scoring drive. Next week Atlanta goes to Dallas and New England plays Seattle.

July 26, 2020 (Long Island EFL Week#1 Philadelphia Eagles vs. Washington Football Team July 26, 2020 (Washington DC). Surprise! Surprise! After beating the Washington Football Team twice in 2019 to win their division, the Long Island Electric Football League’s #23-Ranked Philadelphia Eagles (0-1) (63-79), rumbled with the LIEFL #2 Ranked Washington Football Team(1-0) (108-68), in a brutal intense division battle on opening day in Washington with all of the controversy surrounding the “Redskins” that's happening in the country, but this Long Island Electric Football League Washington Football Team played a defensive game that beat division rival Philadelphia Eagles 13-10 in a stunner! Washington running back LIEFL All-Pro Tony Green (#34) (#23 Rushing in LIEFL in 2019), compiled 239 all-purpose yards in the game, but the tough Eagles defense held him to only 21 yards on 10 carries on the day. The Philadelphia Eagles and Long Island Electric Football League record smashing #1 Kick-Returner, Harold Carmichael (#17), scorched the Washington defense with a 100-yard kick-return for a touchdown to tie the game at 10 with 8:58 remaining. Carmichael showed his blazing speed, showed Washington they were in for a war! Carmichael finished the game with 2-172-1/Touchdown! In 2019 in the LIEFL, Carmichael returned 11-100-yard kick returns for touchdowns in this league. Never before has a player reached that status. Washington started out the 2020 LIEF season with an impressive defensive game. They picked up a few players in the draft and showed that this year might be a different story for the much improved Eagles. On Washington's last drive it was Tony Green who outdid the Eagles defense with a 60 yard kick-return, putting Washington within field-goal range, enough to win the game. Washington will face the talented Arizona Cardinals next week in week two and Philadelphia will be in another huge game as they face the Long Island Electric Football League's 2018 Super Bowl XVI, and 2019 Super Bowl XV Champion LIEFL #11 Ranked-Los Angeles Rams(76-80),out west. Los Angeles beat Philadelphia 31-24 in last year's Wild Card Game at Philadelphia. It will be a great dual between Harold Carmichael (#2 LIEFL & NFC/26-1786-13-TD/All-Purpose Yards), and the "Reverend" Isaac Bruce #24 LIEFL & #12 NFC/18-1011-3-TD/All-Purpose Yards)! Every week, every game is decisive in the league and no team is safe on Sunday!

Man! That photo brings me back to all of the stages of our hobby and the quality which has changed over the years. I sold all of my Haiti teams, but started the 67'BIG MAN ERA in 2008. In 1971, I had the chance to step on the Miami Dolphins field at the Orange Bowl in Miami while we were on vacation as children. In those days people could just walk right into the stadium without being stopped. I couldn't have been more than nine-years old. We had watched the Monday Night game the night before on television. My older cousin Julio, who was in high school at the time, promised to take us to the stadium the next day. True to his promise, he walked me thru the entire stadium, although you couldn't go into the locker rooms. But the magic of being able to step on the field, which was turf, gave me a mesmerizing and overwhelming sensation because I found a piece of a Miami Dolphins Aqua player's Jersey while people were cleaning the stadium up. A man cleaning the bleachers called me over to him and he handed me a book. It was a Dolphins magazine with Dolphin Quarterback Bob Griese on the front cover. I still have it to this day, but the whole episode quickly made me an instant Dolphins fan. Fast forward to 1972, my love for electric football became contagious when my mother, an International and Olympic volleyball player from Havana, Cuba bought and taught me to play this memorable game. Mom was an avid sports fan and athlete and she saw that the game sparked interest in me after walking onto that field at the Orange Bowl in 1971. The first original teams we had were the Dolphins and Packers who played in LIEFL Super Bowl I on December 28, 1974, which we called the AFL Championship Game in which I played with the Miami Dolphins who beat Mom's Green Bay Packers 24-17 on the kitchen table. She didn't look so happy, or maybe she let me win, but her competitive nature got the better of her and in 1975, Mom helped us expand by ordering from those old order forms that Tudor provided, the Bears, Rams, Steelers, Giants, and Raiders. The game quickly became popular with all the kids in the neighborhood, thanks to our parents, we all joined forces and started collecting all of the NFL teams any chance we had when Tudor Games, located on Johnson Street in Brooklyn, NY., had those massive electric football sales of $1 per team. Living close to Brooklyn on Long Island, we now wonder why it took so long for the teams to be delivered because we were less than 30 miles away from the Johnson Avenue Tudor Games facility. But, we received the teams with amazing excitement as we numbered our players to match the stars of the time, and the gridiron of the metal board became our childhood addiction. I am sure the game kept us from a lot of trouble too. We then graduated to 19 teams with a mixed version of the AFC and the NFC broken into AFC Conference I and II, and NFC Conference I and II by our 1978 season.

July 25, 2020 WEEK#1 Game 2 Long Island Electric Football League: LIEFL #28 RANKED NFC-CAROLINA PANTHERS-(1-0/2020) (30-27 All-Time) vs. LIEFL #15 RANKED AFC-OAKLAND RAIDERS (0-1/2020) (70-76 All-Time) Great battle with Carolina's defense making a statement in 2020's Long Island EFL. The Panthers have been to back-to-back NFC Championship Games, losing both and stopping AFC Kick-Return Leader Oakland's Dave Casper, is no easy task. He was held to just 66 yards by a relentless Panther defense. Could this be there year? The Raiders with a tough schedule looked great all-around. Nobody forgot what Carolina's Greg Jones (#45 Photo) did in the 2019 post season when he took the league by amazement in the LIEFL Wild Card Game against Green Bay in that Panther 42-20 victory. Jones didn’t touch the ball the entire season, but All-Pro running back DeShaun Foster needed the rest with the Panthers crushing the Packers that day. Jones finally got his chance, and what he did transformed the Panthers in the middle of the playoffs with astonishing results. This was no fluke! The Panthers decided to use Jones full-time as the set-up man on kick returns for DeShaun Foster and what a one-two combination they have become. Jones has produced. Against Green Bay Jones ended up touching the ball three carries on special teams with devastating results against opponents, and apparently, he is not finished yet. The 179 yards and 100-yard kick return he had against Green Bay was just the beginning. He then stunned a very competitive Arizona Cardinals the following week in the NFC Divisional Championship Game 49-35 with Jones running wild! He totaled 382 kick-return yards on six attempts with two-100-yard touchdowns! And in the NFC Championship he made his final statement to the defending Super Bowl Champion Los Angeles Rams with 397 yards on kick returns and another 100-yard TD. That is a lot of damage in three games. This UNKNOWN player will be a dangerous force in the Long Island Electric Football League for the Panthers.

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July 25, 2020 In the Long Island Electric Football League's opening day game, it was Kansas City's (1-0) Tyreek Hill (#10) who made the difference in the Chiefs opening day victory over the tough Houston Texans with his 147-yards and 100-yard kick return for a touchdown as the Chiefs edged the Houston Texans (0-1) 14-10! Houston's Ron Dayne rushed for 88 yards and he had one touchdown for the Texans.

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SUPER BOWL XIV RAMS CHARGERS 2018.pdf See our League page if you are interested in all of the statistics for the 2018 season.

2019 SUPER BOWL XV LOS ANGELES RAMS vs. MIAMI DOLPHINS TUDOR FORUM RAMS WIN SUPERBOWL 44-41 OVER MIAMI.pdf

As kids what did we know? We did the best we could to understand football because we played organized football. The 1978-79 Long Island EFL season had 19 teams and 4 different Conferences, two for the American Football League and two for the National Football League... We called the league the OLD AFL before we merged and invested in the league, teams, and new bottoms doing chores to make extra money to pay for them and having our parents help us. The Denver Broncos were one of those new teams that we added to our league after they played the Dallas Cowboys in NFL Super Bowl XII in 1978 Tudor Games featured the Cowboys and the Broncos when you went to buy a new game in the store. Those Denver Broncos became one of our most powerful teams and it was the first time we transitioned to using the total team control player bases. That season they beat the Miami Dolphins 8-5, delivering the Dolphins first loss in 73 games. We loved electric football that much. We had Eddie, Paul, Kevin, Robby, Joey, and William. We made it work. 1978 PDF Long Island Electric Football Standings.pdf

Long Island Electric Football 1976-77 Tournament Super Bowl II. What is incredible about these records is that we actually had the savvy as nine and ten year old's to save an enormous amount of data that we wrote down as a rule in our league. The manila folders for each team for each season are mind-boggling! The time warp has returned into a throwback era which we saved everything! All stored in boxes, bins and in a really old dresser in our garage. It's hard to explain some of the things we do when we our kids, but thank goodness for having the foresight to initiate a lifelong tradition of keeping impeccable records for the Long Island Electric Football League. We are rich with tradition and incredible that we save every season on paper, now on computer since we started the league nearly 50 years ago! We would love to know your thoughts and read all about your leagues. 1976 Long Island Electric Football Championship Tournament.pdf

WHAT A SEASON WITH A CLIMATIC LONG ISLAND EFL SUPER BOWL XIII ENDING AS THE BILLS BEAT THE LIONS! We love reading about your leagues! Lets keep our hobby thriving my brothers! OFFICIAL BILLS LIONS SUPER BOWL XIII.pdf

A recap of an amazing Long Island Electric Football League Super Bowl XI! --feel free to check out our page with some amazing rich tradition and history! OFFICIAL JULY 2020 RECAP OF LONG ISLAND EFL SUPER BOWL XI.pdf

If you enjoy reading about electric football, here is a little history about the Long Island Electric Football League: This year Long Island EFL celebrates our 49th year in the hobby with Long Island Super Bowl XVI, in the Granddaddy of them all! In 1971, I had the chance to step on the Miami Dolphins field at the Orange Bowl in Miami while we were on vacation as children. In those days people could just walk right into the stadium without being stopped. I couldn't have been more than nine-years old. We had watched the Monday Night game the night before on television. My older cousin Julio, who was in high school at the time, promised to take us to the stadium the next day. True to his promise, he walked me thru the entire stadium, although you couldn't go into the locker rooms. But the magic of being able to step on the field, which was turf, gave me a mesmerizing and overwhelming sensation because I found a piece of a Miami Dolphins Aqua player's Jersey while people were cleaning the stadium up. A man cleaning the bleachers called me over to him and he handed me a book. It was a Dolphins magazine with Dolphin Quarterback Bob Griese on the front cover. I still have it to this day, but the whole episode quickly made me an instant Dolphins fan. Fast forward to 1972, my love for electric football became contagious when my mother, an International and Olympic volleyball player from Havana, Cuba bought and taught me to play this memorable game. Mom was an avid sports fan and athlete and she saw that the game sparked interest in me after walking onto that field at the Orange Bowl in 1971. The first original teams we had were the Dolphins and Packers who played in LIEFL Super Bowl I on December 28, 1974, which we called the AFL Championship Game in which I played with the Miami Dolphins who beat Mom's Green Bay Packers 24-17 on the kitchen table. She didn't look so happy, or maybe she let me win, but her competitive nature got the better of her and in 1975, Mom helped us expand by ordering from those old order forms that Tudor provided, the Bears, Rams, Steelers, Giants, and Raiders. The game quickly became popular with all the kids in the neighborhood, thanks to our parents, we all joined forces and started collecting all of the NFL teams any chance we had when Tudor Games, located on Johnson Street in Brooklyn, NY., had those massive electric football sales of $1 per team. Living close to Brooklyn on Long Island, we now wonder why it took so long for the teams to be delivered because we were less than 30 miles away from the Johnson Avenue Tudor Games facility. But, we received the teams with amazing excitement as we numbered our players to match the stars of the time, and the gridiron of the metal board became our childhood addiction. I am sure the game kept us from a lot of trouble too. We then graduated to 19 teams with a mixed version of the AFC and the NFC broken into AFC Conference I and II, and NFC Conference I and II by our 1978 season. As we look through our files it is incredible that we kept all of this information as you can see from the files we have shared thus far. It wasn't long after that we collected all 32 teams in their home and away uniforms making for an awesome league. Check this fascinating fact out. At nine years of age we had the insight to keep meticulous records. As we dig up an entire bin of league records beginning in 1975, you will find our league has a rich history and tradition with all of the details, statistics, standings, and records for all 32 NFL teams that are more than 40 years old. We have every record of every game in this league, including tournaments against outside leagues since the late 70's as we celebrate our 16th Super Bowl this year 2020 after picking the game back up in 2008. When I graduated from high school in Tampa in 1981, I traveled back to Miami in May of 1980 a few times because my grandmother lived there and it was completely transformed. There were riots going on in the streets of the Overtown section in Miami the first time I went back. And in 1982, when I visited again, I got to go see the great game between the Chargers and the Dolphins in the playoffs on January 2nd 1982 when Tony Nathan ran the hook and ladder play and the Dolphins lost to the Chargers 41-38 in an epic game. You could no longer walk freely into the stadium in 1982, and in 2008 the historic Orange Bowl was demolished to make way for the Marlins MLB stadium. 2020 is a hallmark year for us. Thanks to Tudor Games for allowing us all this platform to inform people about our leagues, we will take you inside the LIEFL with all of the excitement and joy it brings us. Tudor Games inspired us to keep the hobby going! We understand that our league information may be meaningless to you, but it is the spirit in all of us that spark our love for the game that matters most. LIEFL's rich tradition and yours is what makes us respect and embrace everyone's leagues around the world. Like all leagues, we fantasize and bring our own vision of reality through our leagues and player figures as metal-board warriors uplift men and women, and children who find joy, laughter and wonderful camaraderie as we all make new friends around the world. Electric Football is nothing less than an outstanding way to commemorate this incredible hobby that only we who play the game would understand. In reminiscing, our 2017 season was the beginning of Draft pick strategies that work to affect. Buffalo's OJ Simpson crushed many LIEFL long standing records which collapsed the test-of-time by dismantling our defending LIEFL 2016 Super Bowl Champion Detroit Lions and everyone in their path. While we thought it was a great match-up on paper, the Bills and the "Electric Company" became our second Wild Card Team to win a Super Bowl, setting a new standard for the league (See the Video Below). In 2019, we decided to change the rules to better suit the competition, with three guards and two tackles allowed on the front line so that the running game would expand the excitement of the game and the receivers would be three to four inches from the left and right side of the line adding to the excitement of man-to-man coverage. In our league you have only 40 seconds to set up your play. The theory of player set-ups changed the game with the outside lanes now open for running backs to risk-reward run and defenses to adjust to 5-I formations in the trenches. Sensation was the result of the changes with players now doing things we never thought possible. We know you have had the same experiences and that is the cool part of the game as it comes to life! I am sure this has happened to all of you when a great team does things you couldn't predict, and they play so great in that moment, but fail the following season. That to us is a great league when we use Japanese Kaizen Philosophy as a way to utilize "constant continuous improvement" for the betterment of the league . As we draft new and exciting bottoms the league continues to evolve just like it does in the NFL when new Drafted players compete with the best-of-the-best in an already established league. All of us in this LIEFL group of childhood friends were athletes who love a variety of sports played here on Long Island from Lacrosse, Football and Wrestling, to Hockey, Martial Arts, Basketball, and even Soccer. Here we are 40 years later transforming the game to never before seen heights for us. As we have gotten older we set a new standard. We went from playing a 14 game season to a seven game NFL season with all 32 teams which begins August 1, and ends December 15th. This will be our 5th straight seven-game season and we are loving it! While we may be a long way from the 1972 start when Mom showed me how to play this game, we will play five more seasons until 2025 and then realize that this ageless game should be donated to someone who treasures the memories just like we did as life comes to a close. Lets keep this rich tradition of electric football alive and historic so it too creates its own legacy. For these incredible player figures that come to life in our leagues ... Tudor Games, We Salute You! This August, we will provide a full range of information as our season kicks off complete with week-by-week schedules, scores, highlights, accurate LIEFL statistics, including Rushing, Receiving, Offense, Defense, Playoff, Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, and Historic games records as the season unfolds. (See last season's "2019 Season Recap" Below). God Bless America! With Love the LIEFL, William O'Connell 1981 LONG ISLAND ELECTRIC FOOTBALL LEAGUE.pdf