Terry43

I play a half one day and the second half the next day. This gives me time to think about strategy while I'm playing and adjustments between halves. Enjoy the Journey T43. ⚡🏈♾️

Hi Oscar. I have a Barcelona Dragons football jersey. One of my NFL Europa favorites. 😃👍 Sorry NFL Europa went out of business.😪 I live in Cody, Wyoming 🤠 and I've been playing electric football since 1965. I'm not sure any of my opinions will be helpful but here goes. 🤔How much space do you have? I converted a third bathroom into my football room. I have a Tudor Ultimate electric football field and in my opinion the wider field is better for executing sweeps. Regardless of the size you decide on, invest in two motion generators. 🤔Will you play solitaire or in a league? If you play solitaire then eBay is great. Lots of older bases that are inexpensive. Just make sure the bases you're buying haven't been tweaked. Don't buy someone else's mistakes. If you play in a league then you need to become proficient at tweaking ITZ and Tudor Proline bases. This will cost you hundreds of dollars. 🤑 That's just part of the hobby. When ITZ first released their CL-2 bases I spent over $500. just so I could get to know the CL-2 bases. 🤔What's a bad experience? I've been playing for 40 years and I have 21 teams and I haven't had an experience so bad I just up and quit. In my experience there aren't any bad experiences, just learning experiences. Electric football is not "Plug and Play." The learning curve can be steep because you literally have to learn how every single base performs. Then you have to invent a system to help you remember. Many coaches write on the bases to help them remember how the base performs. I'm one of them. Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

Are there any pictures or videos of Norman Sas actually playing an entire game of electric football? Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️

Levi, I agree fantasy teams are a lot of fun. (All of my teams are fantasy teams.) This is also a time for all of the coaches to reevaluate your league values. A fantasy league can be more than fantasy names and fantasy helmets. There can be fantasy rules that promote the best parts of the electric football game. Putting cash in the EFL kitty is a value that your new league plans to keep. Of course this is like the NFL and that is a reasonable value. The NFL is an obvious value model and one of the over-arching values seems to be protecting the QB. Protecting the QB investment has become the be-all and end-all value for the NFL. Bryan Nutt's value model is contained in Tudor Advanced Play ( TAP ) . Bryan writes: "To keep it simple in “TAP”, the center will always line up in the center of the field between the hash marks... the offensive coach must fully lineup his team in less than 40 seconds... All plays are read-option plays! No need to call run or pass before the play." Keeping the game of electric football simple is Bryan's over-arching value. Korin "Kit" Kinchen Commissioner of TOEPRO Football, believes that anything that can be done in NFL football can be duplicated in electric football. I believe what Kit means is we coaches can pretend anything possible in the NFL is possible in electric football. We pretend the center snaps the ball and we pretend a touch is as good as a tackles. These are trick of the values we've adopted because we really love the electric football game. The values I've established to improve my enjoyment of electric football are: VALUE STATEMENT Duplicating the basic elements of the real game of football is a value of the HEAVY METAL ELECTRIC FOOTBALL CONSORTIUM (HMEFC). Basic elements are: Kickoffs, punts, and field goals; 10 yards for a first down and four downs to a make 10 yards; 11 players on offense and 11 players on defense; Passing and rushing; Six eligible receivers; Two tightends, two tackles, two guards, and a center constitute the offensive line. Many important aspects of the real game of football cannot be duplicated on a vibrating football field. Aspects such as: snap motion tackling fumbling kicking catching a pass audibles Penalties injuries Because of these important limitations, duplicating the NFL, or NCAA, or CFL is not a realistic value of the HMEFC. My values (which are in my biography on this Forum) also include Stop-Forward-Progress Tackling, over 5-gram weight minimum, and stacking two-deep on offense and defense. One of my peculiar values is that the 'Fab Five,' are really the 'Sensational Six.' All of my teams have the original Tudor QB at quarterback. Also, I love the 'Pick-Six' so I have a passing scheme that favors pick-sixes. As your new league advances you will write rules and establish procedures. I believe it is important to note which values are driving the rules and procedures. Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

I think the stadium looks cool 😃👍 but... I walk around (and around and around and around, etc.) my field and grandstands just get in the way. So cool idea, but probably not on my wishlist. Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

Welcome back Greg F. Your daughter is adorable. Can't same the same for the Auburn Tiger. 😜 🐅 Thank you. 🤩 That's exactly how I play in my solitaire league. 😃👍 My thoughts exactly. I don't spend time on bumpers anymore. After lots of experimentation I just don't think they make a difference. Enjoy the Journey T43. ⚡🏈♾️

"Bo vs. the Boz" (Raiders vs. Seahawks, 1987) Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️

Seems that Gerald Riggs wouldn't be accumulating any yards without a potent offensive line. What are Johnny-Freeport's blocking schemes? Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

I wrote this in an earlier post. If you've already read it please forgive the double posting. 😃 I completely agree. 😃👍 I'd start with page 23 of the Unforgettable Buzz and work my way forward in time (Norman Sas and the Model 500 for innovation). Maybe Eddie Gluck and the G-1500 (for innovation) would be my second nomination (Chapter 12). Lee Payne gets my third nomination (page 241) and then Albert Sung (page 245 bottom of the page) for painting. Then, I would go to the Tweak and Plugged In and do a bit of name counting. Someone whose name appears 100 times has a better chance than someone whose name appears 20 times, etc. Then I would count How-to videos posted on Youtube. Posting video of a game wouldn't count unless it illustrated a point. Just my two-cents. Enjoy the Journey T43. ⚡🏈♾️

Wow! Great paint! 😃👍 Nice thin lines on the helmets and pants. Do all your players ride on the Rookie double clips? How many teams do you have? ✨🎉You have the Orange Bowl and Liberty Bowl field covers. 🎊✨ Do you have magnetic field covers for all the Bowl Games? Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️

Long live the Tudor 620. 😃👍 My 620 hangs on the wall. I play on an Ultimate Field with two motion generators and probably always will (until a better field comes along 🥰). I have three Ultimate Fields just in case I outlive my current field. 🪦 Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️

😃👍 Let me know when the cards are available for sale. Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

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I completely agree. 😃👍 I'd start with page 23 of the Unforgettable Buzz and work my way forward in time (Norman Sas and the Model 500 for innovation). Maybe Eddie Gluck and the G-1500 (for innovation) would be my second nomination (Chapter 12). Lee Payne gets my third nomination (page 241) and then Albert Sung (page 245 bottom of the page) for painting. At one induction per year I probably wouldn't make it to Reginald Rutledge for over a decade. Enjoy the Journey T43. ⚡🏈♾️

I've never met Reginald Rutledge. I'm not sure about his disagreement with Miggle. I have watched his biographical video on Youtube and I have some thoughts. I ran across this editorial in the first issue of Crackin' Plastic. I don't think a Hall of Fame, or a Brick and Mortar Museum, is really a priority for a hobby that, "...Is losing the race with Father Time." I'm assuming you are speaking from personal experience with the MFCA Hall of Fame. Please, don't let it keep you awake at night. Life is too short and you have so much to share. The important thing is to have fun and Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️

I didn't mean I watched teenage boys. I was a teenage boy and I dreamed of playing in the NFL and going to parties as the parties are portrayed in North Dallas Forty and in Any Given Sunday. I also dreamed of being Captain Kirk. Enjoy the Journey T43. ⚡🏈♾️

In the Spring 2010 Issue of the Tweak, Chris LeMay, Chris Markham, and Al Dunham wrote an interesting article on how to play Solitaire. Chris Markham offered this option: I'm more like Chris LeMay. He wrote: Just about everything I've read in this Forum has been covered in one issue or another of the Tweak. To see all the stories in the Spring Issue, https://nefgmorg.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/tweak-issue12.pdf Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️

Remember the Titans is still my favorite. Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

That's all I took time to watch. (And Star Trek.) Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️

I'm not certain, but I believe I understand the problem. All plastic should be primed before painting. (Everything should be primed before painting.) The plastic could be gray plastic or black plastic, or just about any color and the color of the plastic won't influence the color of the paint applied. Before Beenutt, Tudor primed their players and this results in the whole figure and the platform being white. Including the bottom of the platform. Priming should make the figures worth more (hence $8 --> $10.) I believe Jay has a valid point. I believe this calls into question the expertise of Beenutt and his painters. In a very short time a feckless acrylic paint will rub off the plastic. Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️

In the Unforgettable Buzz, Shores and Garcia wrote, "Gotham's new game was called the NFL Big Bowl Electric Football. It was the most stunning electric football game ever made. Surrounded on three sides with the gigantic double-decker grandstand, complete with overhanging roof, the Big Bowl looked a lot like the new stadiums in New York and Washington. ...(T)he Big Bowl was going to be a near perfect match with the stadiums opening in Atlanta and St. Louis. Gotham's stadium concept was almost as complex as it was ingenuous, requiring nearly 40 interlocking pieces of cardboard... Gotham's rather ordinary 3-D players almost seemed to be an afterthought, swallowed up by the majestic bowl. Heck, a kid could put plastic green army men on the field and it would still look good. (page 219) "Boys who had to punch out and painstakingly assemble the many pieces of (Gotham's) Big Bowl on Christmas morning may have uttered less optimistic adjectives. Was the Big Bowl worth the extraordinary effort? For most boys it was. The sheer scale of the game made Christmas memories for a lifetime." (page 229) I wonder what Reginald Rutledge got for Christmas? 🤔 Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️

Welcome to the Forum. Go Wildcats! The paint on both teams looks great. Who did your field cover? Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

Also, I think I understand another point of confusion. The weak 67 Big men that I was talking about are the Electric Football 67 Big Men 11 that are offered on the Tudor web page. These are the cheap imitations. I really like the original 1967 Big Men (from 1967) from 57 years ago. There you go! Explore, try, and learn. That's the real ticket. Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

Ocher. Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

My solitaire league's minimum weight is now 5 grams. T43 ⚡🏈♾️