Coach Shawn

I should have noted that the figure above is from Tudor’s model 500 from 1964. These figures came attached to their base. I have always loved the sideline view that represented the stands, but uniquely also showed the team benches full of players. Really wish I still had that.

When we started out on our Electric Football journey we created and gathered together many items to aid in this pursuit. Some of what we did is now laughable compared to what is now available. But those old items still hold a special place in our memories and we consider them treasured relics. If you have such items please post pics to share your experience. I will start with my only surviving EF figure from my first Tudor field. It probably was my dad’s field but he allowed a very young me to play with it and thus it did not survive long. Next is my homemade Championship trophy used in the “Magna Bowl” between my brother and myself.

The 10 yard marker with down indicator has always impressed me with its simple practicality. That scoreboard is impressive as well. I like that it has a “play” clock using 15 plays per quarter.

Looking back through my old Electric Football papers I found the rules my brother and I wrote for our Championship game. I had to laugh when I read section four regarding when and why time stoppages were allowed. I added the yellow arrow and under lined the funny part.

An incomplete pass leaves the Lions with time for just one more play. From the five yard line the Lions try a run through the #3 hole. It looks like the RB will make it perfectly following his blocker but the UJ LB comes in and stops the momentum and the D-lineman makes the tackle to preserve the Union Jacks win! FullSizeRender.mov

The Lions then hit this pass. IMG_2601.MOV

The Lions need to score but luck gives them three run plays in a row. Now with 4th down and 2 1/2 yards for a first down they again get a run play, but Barry Sanders comes through big. FullSizeRender.mov

The UJ then drive 76 yards to score again and take the lead 12 to 6 at the start of the 4th QTR. This was a White pressure stick pass. IMG_2597.MOV

3rd QTR: The Lions get on the board with a Blue Pressure stick bomb covering 50 yards! IMG_2619.MOV

The Lions then get picked off as the UJ safety just out runs the Lion receiver. IMG_2589.MOV

A few plays later The Union Jacks score on this 5 yard white stick toss. IMG_2618.MOV

Defending Champions, the Detroit Lions, facing the London Union Jacks. 1st QTR (10 play Quarters): The Union Jacks go three and out after two sacks by the Lions Looper. The Lions then also go three and out. 2nd Qtr: the UJ start moving the ball through the air. Kurt Warner under pressure hits his TE with this white stick pass pass! A TD being prevented when the far side safety comes across the field to make the tackle. IMG_2617.MOV

I have now played two solitaire games using the “Primary Receiver “ rule as I outlined in the initial post. I like it, at least for my solitaire league and it will now be part of my solitaire rules.

I could not find a prohibition on using invisibases in the tournament. Could anyone confirm that they would be allowed. I am trying to get a team ready for next year and would like to know my options.

I thought you did a great job. Your comments were on topic and focused on the game.

Without pics of your boards condition it is hard to say. from your comments I doubt you could fix the current board but maybe you could replace the wood board with a new board and put it into the Gotham frame.

Backwards movement is another technic to get opponents out of the way. You can’t do it the whole game ad your opponent will figure it out, but you can usually get s few critical plays in before he does. i use this on sweeps too. The WR has a backwards base and the CB will chase him leaving the side open for the sweep…just know what his looper does. So sweep inside his loop or go wide around the looper. Or just have a strong TE block the looper if you can. I added a drawing of one version of this sweep.

Yes , LOL sorry. Good catch. The RT moves back.

In our league tweaking skills have continued to improve and as they did we changed certain rules to meet the new standards. Currently we are confident in our receivers and have little hesitation in going for the longest stick passes, in our league this would be the Blue Pressure Stick. The greatest deterrent to passing is the speed and placement of the defenders. We have developed several ways to get short passes open. One method I use for Slants across the middle is to sub out my DE with a DE that has a backward base. I then use one of my pivots to angle the receiver to slant to the back of the D-line. So when the board starts the DE will move backwards and this draws defenders across from him forward across the line creating a vacancy the receiver slides through. See my terrible drawing.

Nice pictures. I am glad you’ve been able to preserve your boards and the boxes! Thanks for your efforts to answer my question! I get what you are saying about pulling out your EF stuff being enjoyable as that it what started this how inquiry. I decided to make a list of all my boards. I have 10 boards (9 Tudor and 1 Gotham).

So the play just creates itself in a way. pass plays are much the same…just use your pivots to angle the receivers you think have the best chance to get open. This is harder than you would think as I use stick passing so the receiver needs to find a nice gap in the device coverage.

IMG_2549.MOV IMG_2549.MOV No cards. The offense must figure out how to work the pass or run from the setup they are in. Now the Offense can pivot two players. On a run this usually means pivoting the ball carrier so he is aimed at the target hole. I decide which player will be the ball carrier by determining which player can hit the target hole and has the best odds of making positive yards. in this video I rolled a R6 which is a sweep to the right. Looking at the def setup I saw it was stacked on that side. So obviously I should use a timeout to go the opposite direction, But the RB on the field does not turn in a way to make that play. So that left doug Flutie the qb. Luckily he has a dial base so I did a QB sweep left and pivoted the TE to block the looper. It worked great. ps: the def gets no pivots.

Interesting. I bought my board second hand with nothing else, no players or accessories. here are some pics of my board.

I have a Miggle Super Bowl board but I cannot find a Model number on it anywhere. I believe it would be somewhere in the 600’s as it is larger than the model 500’s.

LOL. Love this.