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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.

The switch problem is a very common issue and easy to fix by just replacing the switch. Same thing happened to me when I was 13 or 14 years old. I won't go into specifics, but I learned a very valuable lesson about dealing with things electric that made me realize I probably should not choose electrician as my career goal. I have learned now in dealing with vintage electric football games that the most common issue with the switches is that the "W" connector inside the switch simply wears out and gets broken, the wires get broken loose from the connection that they are soldered to, or the inside of the switch just needs a good cleaning. Sometimes it is just that the wiring that attaches the cord to the motor gets broken. Of course, now it is much easier to just get a Tudor Games Field motion Generator or aftermarket vibration generator or even a whole new electro-magnetic motor with the electrical cord and switch already attached. AND you can also just take the motor off an old beat-up game and replace the motor on a better condition vintage game. Right now, I have 40-50 vintage game boards that I am working on in various stages of condition issues and repair issues that need to be corrected as well as ones that simply need the graphics restored or redone completely.

I don't know if Bryan and Tudor Games will, but I am working on an outline for that very thing. An "OPEN" tournament. It is not a new concept and has been done before. The "Bama Blast" in it's early stages was an "open" tournament. The was once an "Eric and Dave's Open" Electric Football Tournament. Even as we speak I am working on a museum sponsored NEFGM "Open" ELECTRIC FOOTBALL Tournament. There have at times been tournaments that have been setup with a 3.2 grams or less division and a 4.0 gram maximum division. I think these were Buzzball and MFCA sponsored tournaments. There have at times been discussions of Beginner" and "Advanced" Players/ Coaches Divisions Tournaments When you start going beyond more than 2 divisions Yes, you start getting into that area of dividing the game up into too many sustainable divisions. As an example. I ran the Solitaire Coaches Points Challenge competition which had 4 divisions. "Box/Stock" "3.2", 4.0" and "Unlimited". Box/Stock and 3.2 were the most popular with the greater number of participants. 4.0 only had a few participants and Unlimited had only one participant. You can find out all about that competition by reading the "Solitaire Illustrated" and "SCPC Gameday" publications, avaiable with downloads in the NEFGM Library section of the nefgm.org website. The SCPC was the one and only competition, to date, to ever crown a "Solitaire ELECTRIC FOOTBALL National Champion". It had a good 5-year run until intetest in it finally faded out. The biggest issue in electric football and in sponsoring any kind of tournament is having a good "Universal" ruleset that will be accepted by everyone in the game and hobby. BELIEVE ME. I HAVE TRIED. It is impossible. I mean just look at all the hundreds of different ways and variatiobs that solitaire coaches have come up with to play the game. When setting up a tournament, league or any competion, you will never please everybody. Either the dates don't fit individual schedules, or the location is too far away, or the rules and style of play "isn't the way I want to play". The best you can hope for is to be able to set up an event that will generate enough interest and draw enough people to, to make it successful and hopefully be able to make it sustainable for several more years to come.

Shawn. Got to get recovered from Cataract Surgery first, A 4–6-week process that is just beginning. I have plans to do a lot of stuff after that!! LOL.

Awesome Shawn!! I remember that team!! Love the additions. I should paint more. I love painting that team and the original AFL Denver Broncos Gold and Brown w/ the vertical striped socks.

Awesome Story!!

Very Cool!! I used to work for the museum exhibit company that produced the graphics for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It was my job to crate and ship the graphics that they have in their entrance area of that year's Hall of fame Inductees. It was always a rush to get them to the Hall the week prior to the Super Bowl. I worked on a lot of their exhibit displays there. I've got pics somewhere. I will have to see if I can find them. That company was also the one that did the complete remodel of the Hall of Fame exhibits I think in 2011 or 2012, the exhibits in the Lamar Hunt Super Bowl Gallery and several more exhibits. My biggest thrill was putting the cleats that Gale Sayer wore when he scored the 6 touchdowns in one game in an exhibit case.

Nice!! Well glad to see you found the game and hobby again!! Enjoy!!

Did you go last year??

I understand all the reasons for not being on Facebook or even wanting to be on Facebook. But that is just the times we live in. It is very expensive and takes very expensive video equipment to video or even live stream events on platforms other than Facebook. To live stream an event on Facebook Live is very easy. Basically, all you need is a cell phone with a long battery life or a supplemental power supply. Anybody can do it and there will be plenty of people there doing it. I will probably do it. But honestly these live events are extremely boring unless you are actually there and actively taking part in the tournament or other events outside of the tournament. If someone does actually take the time and make the effort to record a video production of it, it takes many more hours to edit and produce a quality video production that is even a good short 15-to-20-minute highlights production of it. I have asked my stepson if he could do it, since he works for a sporting event production company in Nashville that does the AEW (All Elite Wrestling) recorded TV shoes, Live TV shows, and pay-per-view events. He is actually the head videographer and production team leader that produces these shows. BUT he is extremely busy with that and more than likely won't be able to. So more than likely if you are not on Facebook you are not going to see anything live and it more be several more days or week before you see anything on it.

Obviously not taking place the same time, it did last year, because that should have been last weekend. I really do not know. but the contract with them was between them and Doug / Tudor Games. Don't think that transferred to Bryan /Tudor games. Bryan has alluded to there being more tournaments in the near future. but no other plans beyond Tudor-Con 2024 that I know of yet.

No. I don't know the weight. 1984 I don't think the idea of restricting weight was even thought of. Might have been, but I don't know.

Yes. Same thing with most FB Buy& Sell Groups. This is the link to Miniature Football Buyers & Sellers Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1593901380873991/

Well, all mine are!!! And yes, they still run in the opposite direction or straight for the sideline when they smell the goal line with absolutely no one around them.

Hey, if that if that is what it would take, would love to get you there. Those pics are from over several years, not exactly sure when, but definitely some from 1999 Bama Blast and 2005 Miggle Convention in Pittsburgh. Pics are from a pack of photos donated to the museum by David Nickles and the Deep South MFL. Man!!! That was 25 years ago!! LOL. With Jerry McGhee on his ECU Pirates Big Board.

Posted on Facebook 2/3/2024 Deep South Miniature Football League (DSMFL) Scrap Jones Hey Coaches, I’ve been looking for a way to finally gain the edge on yaw for the playoffs…………… That’s right i went back and found my 1984 running back base off of my Steelers. Yep, yaw in trouble now!! And it still runs. Anthony D Burgess Awesome!!! It’s way past time that weighted play get the respect it deserves. Just as base tweakers are respected so also should weighted base makers be as well . It is a skill and it’s more to it then guys think and there is a rule for weighted bases/players and it’s this……. Weight MUST BE UNDER THE BASE ONLY! Magnets CSN NOT BE USED AS WEIGHT! One player on ONE WEIGHTED BASE! NO HOUSE PANTED MEN!! There is no 3.0, 4.0,etc limit on your players weight, only that that player can run/ function in a football manner and not be a slow/sluggish moving type base. 3.0, 4,0 IS NOT CONSIDERED WEIGHTED. Visually you shouldn’t be able to tell a weighted player from a none weighted player. You can’t have and shouldn’t have guys who do not play weighted speak on or give any instructions or advice on this subject as they simply don’t qualify and lack the experience. Weighted coaches take as much pride in their weighted team as TTQB passers do in their skill. A weighted coaches training camp is a closely guarded secret, think of it like a top secret recipe. Now weighted bases are fast, strong and extremely consistent, they don’t fall over yet to find that balance of speed and strength is ant art within itself. Scrap Jones Anthony D Burgess, I hadn’t thought to look at it that way until reading your comment. I think theirs something to that. They say that David Nickles used to run a tournament just like what you’re talking about and people came from all over the country. Maybe it’s time to bring it back. Anthony D Burgess Scrap Jones Yes David Nickles did have something it was called the Bamma Blast and it was awesome…… What destroyed it was people pleasing and lack of morals and character. The Bamma Blast is the reason why I no longer compete in tournaments, when pleasing others and cliques are more important than integrity, more important than fairness and right I can not be a part of such a thing. I was told that I was so far ahead of everyone as an excuse for not doing the right thing SMH IF THE BAMMA BLAST was to return I’m not sure if I would participate in it. James L Shealey We played at 6grams in the old Ga EFL high speed hard hits our most feared player was a woman Ms Andrea Hubbard a very beautiful lady who looked like a model Jeff Priest Seen razor blades under platform before lol. Every once in a while, you get an interesting discussion on Facebook

Me too!!! Christmas 1997. 1996 SB XXXI Patriots and Packers, Wife no more (I kind of think electric football had something to do with that. LOL). Game board turned into a combo Tennessee Oilers / Tennessee Titans field. Teams repainted to something else, I think WFL Birmingham Americans and Memphis Southmen. My wife now (married in 2000) is much more accepting of my EF addiction. I certainly couldn't be trying to build an ELECTRIC FOOTBALL Game Museum. If she wasn't. Check out the article in the Spring 2001 Plugged In! 2001-spring-1.pdf (wordpress.com)