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From the Hoosier Gazette-electric football article
http://www.hoosiergazette.com/2004/O.../sports001.asp By Jed Wilcox, THG SportsFloyds Knobs man has used electric football game to accurately predict seven of the last eight Super Bowl winners
Friends used to make fun of Floyds Knobs resident K.C. Duke’s obsession with electric football, an outdated game that reached its peak in popularity in the 1980s where players run, pass, and kick their plastic teams down a vibrating metal football field with hopes of outscoring their opponent. Little did they know that Duke’s passion would turn into a gold mine, earning him hundreds of thousands of dollars last year. The 38-year-old Duke, a drawing teacher at Borden High School, has played electric football since the late 70’s. He got his first board with two sets of players for Christmas one year as a middle schooler, and instantly fell in love with the game’s hard-hitting action. Over a period of years, Duke purchased hundreds of sets of players, so he could field the starters and backups for every NFL franchise. To make the game even more realistic, Duke still repaints each team every year if they alter their uniforms so that his electric players match real NFL players and changes their numbers to those of a team’s regulars. If an NFL team trades a player, Duke trades and repaints that player with their new uniform in his own league. Eight years ago, Duke decided to change things up and instead of playing teams week to week during the regular NFL season, he would play his entire electric season in July to see which team won the Super Bowl, and then compare the results with those of the real NFL season.
Duke repeated his actions in 1998 and 1999 and came up with the same result; the Denver Broncos were the Super Bowl Champions of both leagues. This time he was able to determine Denver’s opponents for those two games—Green Bay and Atlanta. As a matter of fact, Duke’s electric league has accurately determined the participating teams and the winner of that year’s Super Bowl every year except one. In his electric league, the St. Louis Rams won Super Bowl XXXVI over the Tennessee Titans 34-17 while the New England Patriots beat the Rams 20-17 in real life. “I don’t know how that happened. The Patriots were clearly better than the Rams that year,” says Duke. Due to his success at determining the Super Bowl champion in the preseason the last several years, Duke decided to take the risk of a lifetime last August: he maxed out his credit cards and took out a second mortgage to place a single bet—that the New England Patriots would defeat the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl XXXVIII. Duke’s wife Doris nearly divorced him for putting the family in financial jeopardy and his friends and family thought he had finally lost his mind, but Duke’s electric league predictions came through for him once again, with New England winning 32-29.
I tried to get Duke to reveal who he believed was going to win this year’s big game, but he remained tight-lipped. “I have already bet on the game, and I don’t want a flood of bets screwing with the odds. All I will say is ‘think AFC’,” said Duke with devilish grin. To contact K.C. Duke with questions about electric football, e-mail him at kcduke1@yahoo.com To purchase electric football merchandise, go to http://www.miggle.com/store
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EM-F-er [ěm -f-er] –noun-abr-slang: Electric Miniature Footballer 1. a person/hobbyist/gamer who creates a representation of American Football in a small or reduced scale for competition or show. 2. the majority of forum users on the website, www.miniaturefootball.org —Idiom 3. One Bad Em-F-er, negative shout out; pertaining to weirdwolf: There goes one bad EM-F-er. I mean he can’t play and ain’t never win nothin’!  
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