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[dogwood30]

Hello everyone my name is Mike Veliky. I live in Boonton NJ and have been playing EF for 40 years off and on. I have played nothing but my own solitaire leugue for all this time. I am currently in my Super Bowl 44 playoffs.

I started playing in 1967 with my first Tudor board the NFL 500 model which featured the Packers and Colts. This game had one of my favorite scoreboards of all the models I owned. Remember those thin dark blue and gold team names. They were great even though they were hard to take care of. The fever was on.

Soon after I got my game I showed it to my buddy down the street and before long he had his own game, the Tudor model 600 I believe with the Giants and the Browns. I was jealous because he had a bigger field than mine but at least we shared each others teams and played for hours upon hours.

I remember ordering my first team from Tudor. It was the Cowboys ( I'm a Cowboy fan ) in their dark uniforms. I think a team cost about $1.50 back then. Imagine that. I saved my allowance every week until I had enough to buy another team. I was a fanatic over this game. I started lookig for odd jobs to earn extra money so I could buy more teams. I remember weeding this guys garden for a whole day and made 10 bucks and immediately bought like 8 teams. After about a year I had every NFL team in both their home and away uniforms. Then came Super Bowl 1. I remember buying the Chiefs and Raiders as my first 2 AFL teams. We used to play the AFL teams with the NFL team that most resembled it. Then the 2 leagues merged and their were more teams to buy. I can't tell you how many game boards I had but my favorite was the NFC 620 with the light blue endzones. That is my brief history for now. I will continue my story in future posts. Thanks for having me. My nickname is "VK" so you all may refer me as VK. Thanks for having me and taking a look.