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Very Good!! Absolutely 100% correct.

The Commissioner of the LIEFL, BIlly O'C, has become a really good friend or mine and is very supportive of the NEFGM so much so that I asked him to join the Board of Directors of the Museum. He was kind enough to donate one of the teams from the LIEFL (Tennessee Titans) to the museum. One of the things that I love the most about the write ups of this league are the game action photos with the graphic enhancements and the videos that they have made. It is to him, and I am sure other members of the LIEFL, that I owe for taking the VHS tapes donated by the Deep South MFL and converting them to digital media so that I could download them to the NEFGM YouTube Channel. If you have ever checked into having this done, you know how expensive that is. Billy also created this cover photo for the National and International Brotherhood of Electric Football Facebook Group. Personally, I wish more of the competitive leagues would but the time and effort into recording the history of their leagues that the LIEFL does. This is the stuff that makes up the history of the ELECTRIC FOOTBALL Community that is so vital to the history of the game and hobby and without which the museum would just be a bunch of old game boards hanging on the walls.

I do have to agree with Jay. I never have cared for the Uni-forms. They are OK but take a great deal of patience and don't look that great IMO. I have done a couple of teams of them. But just not that satisfied with the result. I prefer to paint my own teams and have used Tudor's decals. Tudor's decals are not the greatest quality either. I mostly paint reproduction and replica "Tudor Classic" teams using 67 Big Men and Haiti Repro figures, but I don't use decals. They are all hand painted. You can find many of them posted in the Showcase - Photo Gallery section of this forum. I have also done a lot of logo-less teams just the uniforms. Here's are some examples of those. Can you recognize the teams they are supposed to represent without the lgogs? Hint late 60's NFL and AFL teams.

They sure would be easy to paint and decal. Figures with pre-painted skin tones. Silver helmet. Sleeve and Helmet decals.

Like all your ideas. I am open to any and all suggestions. I am really thinking $100,00 to get started, and that is just to secure a lease for a commercial building for one year. There are several locations that come up around here where I live, that is for rent or lease that would be suitable to get started in. I got "Raiderman" Paul Bartels to draw up a basic floor plan for a building last year that was 4500 sq ft. and with the cost of building materials at that time, we estimated it would cost $900,000 to build it and that was just for the building, it does not include the property. Ideally, I would like for it to become part of another museum, such as the National Museum of Toys and Miniatures in Kansas City, MO or the Stong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. The success of the "Art of the Buzz" exhibit that I did in the Pryor Art Gallery at the first of last year did indicate to me that an EF Museum could be a viable permanent museum exhibit and tourist attraction somewhere. Some of the other options that I have around here are the Tennessee State Museum and the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in Nashville. The Pro Football Hall of Fame did an Electric Football exhibit in 2001 and read somewhere not too long ago that someone was able to get a display of electric football in the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame at one time. I do have the advantage of having worked in some of these museums (Tennessee Sports HOF, PFHOF, and the Packers HOF) during my career as a museum exhibit fabricator and installer as well as many others around the country. That is the job I retired from 4 years ago. Another option that I am looking into is becoming a part of a local city or county Parks and Recreation Dept. since part of my concept for the museum does include an interactive play area for people to experience playing the game. Have I ever mentioned that I am not dead set on it being located here where I live? I am open to relocating it anywhere in the US as long as a building can be provided and there is someone who is as passionate about preserving the game and its history as I am who I can trust to be responsible for its upkeep and day-to-day operation. I got the artifacts if you got the place to put 'em!! What more can you ask for?

Most Regional ELECTRIC FOOTBALL Leagues and Regional and National Tournaments use the Tournament of Champions (TOC) Rules or some variation thereof regardless of whether they are using pro teams, college teams, high school teams or fantasy teams. Localized leagues may have their own set of rules, but the TOC has pretty much become the standard on the highly competitive league and tournament circuit. I am not sure of the exact numbers but there are generally 30-40 coaches that regularly compete in the TOC Series of Tournament Events. The other major competitive circuit is the Miniature Football Bowl Championship Series which has a larger membership with local and regional league competitions and then an annual National Championship Tournament at the end of their season. There is a lot of cross membership and participation with many of the same coaches playing in two, three or even four leagues at the same time. I used to participate in several of these levels of competition and still enjoy going to watch some of these games and seeing many of the people that I have gotten to know through the game over the years at these events. However, the level of competitiveness just gotten way more serious than I like, taking the fun out of playing the game. My main focus now is on the collecting and hobby side of the game and playing solitaire. And of course, trying to build the National ELECTRIC FOOTBALL Game Museum into an actual physical museum that people can come to and learn more about the game and experience playing the game.

My goal from the very beginning of the creation of The National ELECTRIC FOOTBALL Game Museum has been to build a physical location to house the artifacts, collections and media library archives of the museum and to provide a place where people can view displays and exhibits featuring the artifacts and collections of the museum as well as learn more about the history of the game and experience playing the game firsthand. In the four years since that time, I have been able to create and build a very successful virtual museum with a worldwide audience on the internet. nefgm.org The question I get asked more than any other is if this is a place I can come and visit. The answer is yes, the temporary location of the museum which is housed in the bonus room and a spare bedroom of my house is always open to anyone who would like to visit if you are ever in the area (Spring Hill, TN in the area 30 miles south of Nashville just off I-65). But it is not the permanent location of my vision for the museum. Therefore, I have established a building fund in honor and memory of one of our founding members of the NEFGM Board of Directors to solicit and accept donations to help us with this fulfillment of this vision. Please click here to learn more about this opportunity.

Yeah, I don't know the real reason why not allowing the QB to be a lead blocker became illegal in electric football, other than most QB's (mostly in the professional levels) just don't do it. That is my biggest beef with a lot of the rules that leagues and tournaments have come up with is that they have made a lot of things illegal that aren't illegal in real football. I understand every level of competition has to have rules and if you are going to play at those levels you have to abide by those rules. I don't play competitively any longer because of some of the things that have been taken out of the game that should not have been. Solitaire is the only level of electric football where you can devise any way to play the game that makes it more fun and exciting for you, yourself. It's your game, your rules. "Just have fun and play the game".

So, if you really think about it, basically every play in electric football starts after the snap of the ball and the quarterback already has the ball in his hand or in some cases has already handed the ball off to another ball carrier so it only stands to reason that at this point every player has already completed their initial movements in the progression of the play. My question then would be, should you also allow the defensive players to be well into their initial reactions to these key moves by the offense?

Terry43, since you liked that one so much, here is another one for you. 2772512.pdf

Obviously, when the game was invented, it was just a kid's game to be played causally among friends and family for fun and entertainment. I doubt very seriously, Norman Sas or Lee Payne had any idea that it would become one of the most popular competitive sports games that it is now. What is even more amazing is that the same basic technology that was invented to power the game boards and give movement to the players has virtually remained unchanged for 75 years. Sure, it has been tweaked and improved upon by many others, but it still goes back to that original patent for a "Vibrating Propelling Device." 2167985.pdf

Here is an example of a team roster created by Reginald Rutledge. 1967 Green Bay Packers Roster.pdf

I have toyed around with basing the weight of players on the following scale: 1 gram = 60 lbs. A long time ago, Reginald Rutledge came up with the idea of a weighting system called Cumulative Weight Distribution that is based on 1 gram = 50lbs. I have always thought this was a more realistic way to create a team and weight players. Cumulative Weight Distribution.pdf

You might try this one: info@theunforgettablebuzz.com or through this website Playland In Photos: Ocean City Amusement Park Memories (earlshores.com)

The best way to assess potential merchants and people doing this is to join the many facebook groups related to electric football and get reccomendations There are only a handful of artist that I personnally reccomend and that is only because I have seen their work first hand and have known them for many years. As far as pricing, there is always that old thing of you get what you pay for. But at the same time just because you are paying someone $300 for a fully detailed team doesn't mean you are going to get $300 worth of quality. Custom painted teams with all the detailing aren't cheap. Unfortunately there are those in this game and hobby who will take advantage of you. I can connect you with Kyle. I will send you a private message.

Yeah, I thought that looked kind of cool. Better than some of the other designs I have seen people come up with. Personally, I am very traditional. I just want a "green grass" football field without all the distractions on it.

Yes. Flashing is usually the first thing I do to a base, The only pliers I use are smooth jaw flat nose pliers. The only thing I am trying to do is get them to run relatively straight.

Agreed!!

Merry Christmas to you!!

Don't think Gridiron Dudes is the same as Gridiron Uniforms. I have seen some of his work, mostly way back when college teams.

Yes, I met them in Philadelphia in 1999 when they were just beginning to do the research and work for The Unforgettable Buzz and then in 2014, I met Earl Shores at the Tudor Convention and got a signed Directors Cut copy of The Unforgettable Buzz. I don't think I have his email. and neither one of them are very active on FB. Neither the Unforgettable Buzz website nor Facebook page has been updated in years. Nothing that I have ever read goes into that much detail about the manufacturing process. Roddy Garcia did donate a large amount of information regarding electric football to the Library of the Strong Museum of Play, in Rochester, NY that one could go to and do some research, which I do plan on doing some day.

I know there are several other artists doing the cutom painted teams for Tudor. Todd Stroud, I believe is one, not sure who else is doing them. I don't think Bryan really realized the volume of demand that would be generated by offering this service. I am sure it will slow down after Christmas. I do think that this was a much better option to satisfy the consumer demand for the many new, alternate and throwback uniforms that NFL and College teams are now wearing and the unpredictable popularity of particular teams that Uni-forms was supposed to be the answer for. Hopefully all will get worked out and Tudor is able to contnue to produce a great product with outstanding quality and customer service for many years to come.

Kyle Nutt is the son of Bryan Nutt, current owner of Tudor Games. Kyle has been painting teams and figures ever since he was just a young boy. Here is a display of college teams done for his Dad, several years ago. Here is a Kansas City Chiefs Dark Jersey team done for Tudor Games. I do keep a file on my computer of teams and figures that Kyle paints and I will be posting more later in this thread. Here is a video that I created featuring Kyle and his work for the "Art of the Buzz" EF Art Exhibit Display that I did last year.

Man!! I absolutely love the graphic enhancements that you guys do on the photos.

Not sure but the black may be a painted or powder coated finish. Personally, I like the brushed aluminum finish better. We used to use a lot of brushed aluminum in the exhibit cases we built when I worked for the Museum Exhibit company.