who introduced you to this hobby?

[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.

[GUTTMANN]

For 4 years I kept asking Santa for a "Slot car" track.....Raiderman received that instead of me, still don't know why? LOL
1978, Vikings/Raiders appeared under the tree. I was sooooo ********ed, I payed more attention to my clothes and I "boycotted" that game. The next morning, curiosity got the best of me. Ever since then, I wondered, what would've happened if I actually received the slot cars......
Mike

[Raven maniac]

I was introduced to the game by a cousin at the age of 7 or 8. We played with guys that just went around and sometimes some went straight. I think that was around '78 or '79. Now to the hobby we play now. I'd have to say Coaches S. Carter, and Smitty. Without ever seeing a DVD I was introduced to this new world order of EF. Thank you gentlemen for the hobby!

My dad was the one who introduced me to the hobby. I was at my grandpas (my dads dad) and we found his old electric football board. I thought it looked awesome and my dad ended up buying me a super bowl set. I still have my dads old board and my first super bowl board even tho niether of them work any more.

[RavennaAl]

Who, you ask? Why, it was that bosomy, blonde, floozy they used to have on Saturday afternoon wrestling, that's who! There I was, sitting in front of the TV watching Pat Patterson, Pepper Gomez, Mr. Saieto, Kenji Shabuya and the rest of those guys when she pops on the screen and says "We'll be back right after this" and then the next thing you know, there's a commercial for an electric football game. That was nearly 40 years ago, and even today I'm still getting hornswaggled by a pretty face with cleavage.:rolleyes: :o

[jeff]

Great topic! I learned from my next door neighbors. My parents must seen how much I liked ef that they bought me a set for Christmas , I ws around 10 at the time. Next thing I knew the whole neighborhood was caught up in the fever . We had 15 coaches in our first league, and every season after that we had atleast 10 coaches. We never finished a season , but sure had some good times.

[Pirate Rick]

i remember....my best friend and i were looking at the sears catologue for something as a gift and saw the superbowl game and thought it would be cool.. we got it and shortly after had purchased all the teams from tudor and played every weekend for 3 yrs before we graduated and moved on

[Anthony D Burgess]

Well in 1970? My family moved to another part of Alexandria Va . Once there I made new friends one of them MC ( Mike Carr ) .

We would hang out , and would play football with anyone who would let use play , and let me tell you , MC was a hell of a full back and safty , I loved running behind him .

Then one day while I was at his house , 1 block over , he pulled out this football board . Man I was hooked . There was no information on how to play it so as children we put our heads together and played it the way we thought it should.

We then played in a league in our area , ( one stop pitch and pass weighted ) . Man if it were not for MC showing me this game I might not be playing it today .

Thanks MC , I hope you and your Cleveland Browns will do well this season . Love you man and Thanks .

It was a cold blustery day,

A young boy goes downstairs to savour a bowl of Captain Crunch and wacth the morning film funnies! There on the dinnning room table was a Montgomery Wards or Sears cataloge! While crunching away and devising my 20 page Christmas list I saw a game? It was a game unlike any other. It had my favorite teams on the box "The Pittsburg Steelers vs. The Dallas Cowboys"
Now, I already had more AFX racing cars sets than any one child should have. In a moment of devine inspiration, I negotiated the ultimate deal. With the grace of a baptist minister, I ascended the stairs. I gently tapped on Mama's door. I waited for her acknowledgement and said, "good morning mama". I want to show you something! BOY, DON"T YOU COME IN HERE TO SHOW ME ANY TOYS! Fearing for my life, I swiflty descended the stairs and began to assemble my AFX track. It ran through the front room, curved into the dinning room. Now that Mama is up, Ill get her attention again. She said to me, "Sean Robert Carter, if you don't get this mess up out of my living room, I'm going show you something!". For several weeks I baited the hook. I would have that football game. I must get it under my tree. That year must have been the best year for selling the superbowl game. I konw for a fact that she searched high and low and couln't find the game anywhere. I over heard some private conversations while doing my secret Christmas Recon. Too make a long story short, Christmas came and under the tree was this great big Coleco board with poles on the side. What the hell was this? This was not the Steelers vs. The Cowboys! How could she make this mistake? Was my mother tripping? This was a game for special children! Where was the board I showed her? It would have been better not to have told that there was no Santa Claus. I could have at least cussed him out for this blunder! Little did I know that I had what we would call "The Big Board" Everybody else in the neighborhood had painted teams,but me. I could chage my figures at the waste. You could maneuver your ball carrier with a magnet and that magnet was strong enough to pull other figure towards the ball carrier. Mom had discovered a big hit. Everybody loved the board and it became the prime board for most games in the neighborhood. Fortunately for me, Tudor provided an order form and I gladly spent my allowance and paper route money accumulating teams. Sadly, all was given away in 1984 when I went off to UMCP. In less than 6months, my younger cousins had completly destroyed what took me a decade to build. O' by the way, My mom introduced me to electric football! Happy Mother's Day MOM!

[Treks1]

I don't recall the year but I can remember the time vaguely. It was Christmas time and I was 3- 4 years old and we were making the yearly visit to the grandparents'house in Detroit (I lived in East Lansing at the time), apparently my Mom bought the game for my older brother Gary, as I was too young for the recommended age. But that did not stop me from busting open that box, I think it was a Superbowl set.....it was awesome. It kinda became my present and the rest is history.