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Looks like Beenutt Pac 12 or a Combo of Tudor Fab 5 and Pac 12.

Yes, they are fun to watch.

Yes, I certainly hope so!! I have long said that a bases performance is dependent more on the figure that it is placed on and the conditions under which it is tweaked, such as the game board used in the tweaking process and even the number of players that are on the game board when you are tweaking. I have bought non-Tudor pre-tweaked bases from a couple of people on a few occasions. I was never satisfied with them and felt that the Tudor bases that I had tweaked myself were certainly just as good, if not better. However, there have been several people who have developed a good "side gig" tweaking bases for people, including now Tudor Games. But again, that kind of goes back to the "instant gratification" society that we now live in and not really wanting to take the time to actual learn how to do something that can be bought and paid for.

Good morning!! I would like to welcome to the NEFGM Board of Directors, Ron Mango. Ron is a long-time player, solitaire coach and painter of electric football figures. He is very active in the areas of hand-painting teams and figures, designing and building his personal game day stadium experience and is now into his 100th season of playing solitaire electric football. He recently accompanied me to the Deep South MFL's playoff weekend to learn more about the high-level league and tournament competition of the game and hobby and to visit with a long-time collector of electric football games, teams and figures. He was also very instrumental in donating some items to the "Art of the Buzz" Exhibit that we had last year and participating in the opening reception for this exhibit as a guest speaker and presenting a painting demonstration workshop. Please join me in welcoming Ron to the The National Electric Football Game Museum Board of Directors.

Yeah, didn't take before pics, wish I had. I have a couple of others that I did though and will post pics later sometime. sometime.

I have made out regular season schedules for people at times, just because it is something I like to do. The hardest are ones where not all divisions have the same number of teams. or when there are an odd number of teams.

Yes, I have a lot of old game boards that i am just now getting to and to work on, fixing switches, banging out dents, removing rust and redoing the graphics on with vinyl adhesive backed field covers and framing graphics.

Awesome!! All very good ideas. Thanks for sharing!!

I do not know or have any information regarding sales figures. But I can fairly confidently say that they are in no danger of going out of business any time soon. What I have noticed is a shift in the products and services that they are now offering. For over 50+ years (since 1967) Tudor's man source of sales was in offering pre-painted teams which required maintaining a large amount of inventory that may or may not sell and depended largely on accurately predicting which team was going to be most in demand in any given year and in what uniform combination that team was going to be wearing that season, and placing orders for those teams 4 to 6 months ahead of time. Doug Strohm's creation of the Uni-forms was supposed to be the solution to address this issue but that was not fully embraced by the majority of Tudor's customer base which were still demanding pre-painted teams in all the various new uniform combinations and alternate uniform combinations that NFL teams were introducing every year. That and the worldwide logistical shipping nightmare's that Covid-19 created, made it difficult for a lot of small businesses like Tudor Games to survive. I don't think that Tudor Games under Doug Strohm was ever really in any danger of going out of business, but it was becoming more difficult to offer products and services that were going to produce a minimally acceptable profit and with a quality that most of their customer base was demanding. What Bryn Nutt acquired from Doug Strohm in his acquisition of Tudor Games was a large amount of inventory that was not selling and not of the quality that people had grown accustomed to getting from the brand that is Tudor Games as the one and only major brand of Electric Football Games and Electric Football Products to have survived for nearly 75 years. What Bryan has been able to accomplish in the short time since his acquisition of the brand that is Tudor Games, is the ability to address the issue of providing the teams that his majority customer base is demanding with both NFL and Collegiate Licensing by offering a good quality custom painted team service (albeit not as fast as people are wanting in this "instant gratification" society that we now live in) and in partnering with ITZ Bases to satisfy the demand for better quality bases and custom tweaked bases that is so demanded by all participants of the game and hobby, whether it is in league and tournament play or solitaire play. AND in bringing back the annual National Conventions and Tournaments that people have been wanting for a long time and not just catering to one particular group of highly competitive players of electric football but that is all inclusive of every area of the game such as the solitaire player, the collector, the artist and the general hobby enthusiast.

That is Way Cool!! Thanks for the pics and sharing. Plenty of people here to help and give you advice!!

Very Cool!! Nice Pic!!

That's Awesome!! I believe Bryan is finally getting caught up from his initial takeover of Tudor Games and the Christmas Holiday Shopping Season Rush. I have noticed that he is getting more active again on Facebook and with providing good Customer Service to the patrons and supporters of Tudor Games.

Makes perfectly good sence. I like it!!

I know most of you guys on here aren't on Facebook. But if you are The National Electric Football Game Museum has partnered with Tudor Games to rename "The Electric Football Community" - "The Tudor Games Electric Football World" https://www.facebook.com/groups/2274095646253222/

I would have to check my records, but I did have one high scoring game where the 1966 - 67 Cowboys beat somebody with a high score in the sixties. Don't remember who the opponent was. What I do remember most was that it was a very long game because then I was using a play count method of timing and not including Kickoff and returns, or extra point attempts in the play count.

No Guys!! LOL I was getting the same error message y'all were getting. I know I didn't ban anybody. But a word of warning "DONT PISS OFF THE MODERATOR!! i.e. ME" Just kidding!! I will issue you a warning before anybody gets banned.

Yes, noisy game board is more than likely a loose motor or just on a hardtop surface and needs a towel or some other type of padding underneath it. I used to use brake fluid, back in the day, to strip paint but then a lot of people now, say use LA Awesome from the Dollar Store. Personally, I do not strip paint any longer, I just spray paint over them with white primer. Kyron or Rustoleum.

I did contact Bryan Nutt and make him aware of it and he it got fixed, but he was not aware of it until I brought it to his attention. Thanks to Billy O'Connell for making me aware of it. It may have just been down for general maintenance but at any rate it got fixed, thankfully.

Yeah, tried to get my 3 Grandson's interested a while back. Bought them one of the small portable games Miggle sold, but they don't live close and haven't even been able to see them in 5 years. So, I doubt very seriously they even play the game or even still have the game anymore.

Very Cool.

Yeah, the cumulative weight distribution.

Very Nice!!

Yes, a very interesting part of NFL and professional football history.

I usually just have the TV on and playing in the background, usually on the History Channel, about the only thing i watch on TV anymore. American Pickers is my Favorite. I love that they are bringing a lot more focus and attention on the Nashville, TN and Middle Tennessee areas with their store in Nashville and their Colombia Motor Alley facility in Columbia, TN and the fact that Mike Wolfe has a home in Leiper's Fork, TN. All within a 15-to-45-minute drive from where I live, the home of the Museum and the area of the state that I grew up in and am most familiar with.

Yes. It started probably 20 - 25 years ago as the popularity of the Miggle Toys / Tudor Games Conventions and tournaments grew, and more and more local league and regional tournaments were beginning to gain popularity. It also corresponds with the time that more small companies such as Buzzball, FootballFigure. net, and ITZ bases were beginning to produce electric football teams, figures, bases and custom game boards in competition with Miggle /Tudor for the electric football game market. The main reason for the added weights was because coaches were beginning to increase the board speeds, custom posed figures were becoming unbalanced, and added details such as muscle tone sculpted with "Green Stuff' epoxy resin sculpting putty were being added to the figures, more coats of paint on the figures, and details such as name and number decals, Facemasks, glove and shoe decals, towels, neck roles, long hair and dreadlocks, etc., etc..., were being added to figures increasing the weight of the figures. This added weight to the figures and the increased board speeds lead to the need to add weight to the bases just to keep the figures from falling down all the time and making it more difficult to run and complete plays. Of course, with anything like this where people start taking it to the extremes, standards have to start being set. At first the added weight was 3.2 grams maximum but had to be increased to 4.0 grams for people to eventually accept that as the standard weight limit. Many people are now challenging that limit to where the standard will probably have to be raised again to either 4.5 grams or 5.0 grams. The only reason I know all this is because it was 25 years ago that I rediscovered the game and hobby, was exposed to a lot of it by traveling to different areas of the country participating in leagues and tournament and experiencing it firsthand.