Daryl Collins

Found the one with the orange C, but not the one with the white C. Might have gotten got. Journey On!

Excellent! My wife has one she never uses but it was a Christmas present this last year and it may be too soon to co-op just now. Report on my first foray with Mert’s Pliers. I received an ITZ Starter base and a pink ITZ Blitz base which has a very soft plastic I haven’t worked with before. The Starter base went from turning tight circles to actually moving straight down the field at a very decent clip! This was after about a five minute tweak. I’m working on my Home Bears in Uni-Forms and a receiver claimed it quickly. This is pre adding weight. I bought some tungsten putty to try out, so this receiver may be a complete lab rat. The pink Blitz base was more of a project. I took about 15 minutes with it and produced a light looper with fairly good speed. With weight it would be a possible starting base. This was from a base that was at a jittery standstill pre-tweak! All in all, I would give these pliers a solid A from a limited test run. I bought them to tweak ITZ bases and I probably won’t use them on Tudor bases. Probably. I have my repertoire down for those. The ITZ bases, on the other hand, we’re giving me a fit and these seem to be an answer. They feel well made and are not clunky. ( I thought a bit light at first, but this is not the case.) they are proportional to the bases they were, apparently, made for. As of now, I am very satisfied with these pliers! Journey On!

I never saw one… til now! Journey On

That is a piece of art! Journey On!

Great looking squad! Journey On!

It’s definitely an option. I need to make sure what I have in the cave again before I head in any direction. Always interesting, always fun! Thanks Coach T.! Journey On!

Looper’s a beast! Love the paint, Coach Shawn! Journey On!

Excellent. I’ll have to be careful one way or the other. I seem to have a plethora of ITZ bases on which to develop technique! 😃 Journey On!

If I ordered the Bears custom painted team in away uniforms from Tudor, what are the chances I could get them in all white? How would I go about getting that? Journey On!

So ITZ sent me my curved pliers today,(along with a pink Blitz round front base and a Starter flat front base. Thanks ITZ!). It comes to my attention the videos show heating the pliers before using. I do not possess the outlay I saw in those videos to heat them. Any ideas on how to heat the pliers? Do I really need them heated? Thanks! Journey On!

I’ve asked for more pictures. Journey On!

Your Blast team is a mean and Wiley bunch! Journey On!

Journey On!

I agree with the “pose” argument. Your little plastic peep is playing with what he was blessed with. Purely legal!

Stop forward motion tackling to keep the game moving. Dice for passing and kicking. Pre-tweaked Rookie bases to start off with. Just a thought. Journey On!

Will do! Journey On!

That’s just too dang cool, Coach T! Stellar paint job! BTW. Have you had any experience with the ITZ curved pliers created by “Mert Perkins”, as the ad states? With the trove of ITZ bases I recently came in possession of, (thank you!), I wondered if they would provide any advantage in tweaking said bases? Journey On!

Thank you!! Journey On!!

This is not a criticism. This is a plea, really. I understand that a lot of coaches use Facebook. I do not due to the potential to innocently post something my employer finds objectionable and therefore a terminable offense. That being said, I find it curious that on Tudor’s own Forum, on one of the most important events of the year….crickets. I go on YouTube to watch videos. There hasn’t been a new video post on YouTube since the TAP rules were introduced. I’ve only watched those 12 times apiece. I can quote dialogue. I don’t want to seem like the old man yelling at the clouds, but I seriously hope Tudor will throw a bone here. I realize that maybe it’s like trying to find a good VHS player to play my movies when everyone else is streaming content, and I feel like a doofus hoping some other coach will post something about the weekend. Old school. Out of touch. Maybe. But this whole hobby is made up of coaches trying to keep an old school hobby relevant and viable in the 21st century. Thank you for the time to vent. Plead. I hope I have not wasted your time. Jpurney On!

So. What do you do when you can’t make the Con? You put together home and away Cincinnati Bengals Uni-Forms teams and start the Monday Night Football Tournament III, that’s what. First up are the Green Bay Packers in their away Uni-Forms and the Detroit Lions in the all gray Color Rush. Late in the first half it’s Packers 21 Lions 20. Big plays all around, as the Packers are riding a stellar Farvre passing performance and the Lions are exhibiting a devastating run attack. Should be a real barn burner down the stretch! Journey On!

We’re going to be alright. Thanks for the kind words! Love the pictures! Thanks Coach T.! You always come through. Man! Would I love to step into one of those pictures. Journey On!

I was. Had everything set to go. Then life happened and dictated I be here. I have a policy that I don’t bring the personal, political, or needless controversial subjects to the Forum. I was looking forward to the Con more than anything in a long time. I had my teams tuned up to compete! I believe everything happens in its own good time. I will, Lord willing, make the next one. Journey On!

Been checking all day. Any news from the Con? Journey On!

I thoroughly agree. Unfortunately, I don’t think any new helmeted or new uniforms from the NFL will show up as Uni-Forms. The emphasis seems to be on college Uni-Forms, and that’s all cool, as you will notice, Mr. Nutt plays exclusively with college teams. I, on the other hand, have always been bent towards the NFL when it comes to electric football. A child of the seventies, am I. The sixteen team drop we experienced two years ago will, more than likely, be the last drop of it’s kind. For that matter, ANY new NFL drop. At least the existing teams get replenished. I was afraid the product was going to be abandoned, so when I saw college teams being produced, I was pretty happy. I may or may not be ordering any, but there are many coaches more interested in college ball, so if it means Uni-Forms continues, I’m all for it! Who knows? Maybe we will see new versions from the NFL in the future! I have me some dreams. Journey On!

Love those all white Colt’s uniforms!!