Electric Football Passer/Kicker patent description
 

Found this while searching the google pages under electric football. Thought it was interesting.

Title:
Passer and kicker for electric football game
Document Type and Number:
United States Patent 4306720
Link to this page:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4306720.html

Abstract:
A vibrating surface type simulated football game is disclosed in which high accuracy passer and kicker figures have calibrated passing and kicking ranges on the playing surface corresponding to actual player passing and kicking ranges. Pockets formed in movable members of the passing and kicking figures enable free exit of the projectile upon movement of the member against a fixed stop. The passing and kicking movable members are rotated by the player to various compressed positions of a coil compression spring each corresponding to a calibrated range of the projectile and released to move the member against the fixed stop position to provide highly accurate trajectory of the projectile.

Sounds Like...
 

...the old catapult QB that Air Jimenez was deadly accurate using. Also looks like they hadn't updated the patent on the current plastic version or maybe that's a different one altogethere.