who introduced you to this hobby?

[5-13 Studios]

whether as a kid, or recently, who ORIGINALLY introduced you to this hobby? my dad use to paint college teams when i was a kid, then finally (after a couple years of badgering), he bought me my first set, i must have been 7 or 8 or 9. it was a superbowl set with the steelers and the rams. so, i give credit to my dad for introducing me, how about you?

My older brother and our cousin, who were about 15 at the time. I think the year was around 1971. They had a Tudor model 500 with the big 1-piece men (figure and base was all 1 molded unit). I think the figures were white and yellow.

[Franny-j-boy]

I give credit to a friend who had this game and everyone was fasinated when we saw his game. I too,begged my mom to get me my game, and I also got the superbowl game,but only mine was in 1977. I recieved the Cowboys and Broncos when I was nine and played it with all my friends around the neighborhood. I was lucky to have a great neighborhood to grow up in with many athletic kids. Many were a few years older than myself.
Frank

[TVsCHACHI]

Coach Kevin Thrower of the Mount Washington EFL.

[beenutt]

I remember going over to a friends house when I was about 5 or 6 years old. He had a Falcons/Cowboys electric football game in his room. I thought it was the neatest thing I'd ever seen. I remember playing for a couple of hours and my mom having to pull me away from it. I asked for an electric football game that year for Christmas and about every Christmas after that for about 10 years!

beenutt

[FORU2HATE]

The older kids that use to stay on my parents block had a league and we would watch them play every week. I saved and saved til I had enough to get my first board it had the gaints and broncos in it..I still got the board

I was only about 5 or 6 years old - I watched my older brothers play Super Bowl III - Jets vs Colts. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. A few years later, I had saved up all my money, filled out an order form, and sent away for some teams of my own. The only problem was that an 8 year old didn't know you can't put silver dollars, quarters, and several pounds of miscellaneous coins in an envelope and mail it with a single stamp. When it was returned, I got in big trouble, and was not allowed to play the game for some time. I have been hoarding boards and teams ever since......

[O-schemer]

A friend of mine had the Steelers/Rams and Cowboys/Broncos fields. He got me started playing and my first field was really small. I found it at a yard sale with white and silver teams. My teams had rookie bases and two qb bases, which were really fast.

My friend couldn't stand me playing on that small board so he gave me the Cowboys/Broncos field and teams. We have been best friends ever since.

[WEIRDWOLF]

My dad brought home a box of stuff from an auction as he almost always did every Saturday. In the box was an old 500 field with the flat silver and blue metal men. My nephew and I played with it for ever. We used markers to make arrows on the men so we knew which direction they ran since we had no idea at 8 years old how to tweak the metal (yes metal) prongs (actually strips clear across) to make them go any other direction.
It was my first introduction to ANYTHING that had to do with football.