who introduced you to this hobby?

[the System]

My story began in 1970 when my friend Joe Jenkins showed us his Superbowl III set. Soon all the boys in the neighborhood wanted a set. But the only set that any of our parents was the 500 set. Soon Joe, Donnie, Gary, Alan, Mike, and myself formed a league. The way we played, we broke the NFL into 4 six team divisions. Each would take a team and play a round-robbin to determine the divisional winner and runner up. As soon as all of the divisions were played out, the 8 teams would meet in a playoff. This went for 2 seasons. I won the first year by beating Joe, 49ers 28 - Jets 10. The next season saw Joe beat Donnie, Jets 21 - Steelers 7. After these 2 seasons we moved to another city, but I got a AFC 620 game for Christmas. Since then I have played a solitary league of some kind.

[The Rookie]

I recieved a super bowl game when I was 7 years old for christmas by my parents.I played with it until the switch broke and keep getting more and more when they would break normally for christmas.

When I was 11 or 12 I got a job in the local barber shop sweeping the floor for a dollor a day.
I saved and save until I bought every team .

I had to play solitare because we lived in the country .

My biggest feat was playing a 14 game schedule and the playoffs keeping stats for each game.

The Dallas Cowboys beat the Oakland Raiders in the super Bowl 27-17

I would give alot to have those stats from the season.

During that season my set broke and I had to use a ruler the tap the field to make the players move.

[GrandMasterKC]

my crew battled against an entire family of EF'rs. They were tweaking and making neck rolls before we knew how to coach. We resolve fights by playing EF back then we glued pennis and domes on the players base....now that I think of it..how the heck did we do that ..Hey weighted division in the 80's I was reintroduced to EF in 2005 by Coaches Ed.Roche(Where are you ) Joe.Grecco(EF's Tom Landry), and The Great Coach RaiderMan(NHFL Invite 06)...then they introduced me to the EF World....not to forget my good friend Coach Jack.T"The Ironman"

[styx]

i think i was six or seven , my uncle had a old gatham all-star game with blue and red figures, it was awesome ,i watched him and my older brother play until that x-mas rolled around and i got my own game ,it had the bears an cardinals ,i was sssssssssssssoooooooooooooooo speechless,i knew it had me .

[46defense]

my parents bought me my first set when i was 8 yrs old,it was a 500 board with the yellow and white men that were all one piece.one of my sisters would write whatever number i want ona piece of paper then tape it to whichever player i wanted to have that number.the next set i received was from my cousin,it had the lions and cowboys that's when i was really hooked.from then on i received on every christmas a football set,a coleco hockey set and a afx or tyco race set(tyco sucked).i started playing all these games with guys in my neigborhood who's parents had bought them either a football,hockey or racing set.we started a football league, we had 8 guys and we played clean up to i was in 9th grade in high school,that ended when i discovered all the fun things you could do with girls did'nt find my way back to electric football until one day back in the mid to late 80's i was at work and i was reading the chicago sun times and saw this ad about a electric football convention at a hotel in downtown chicago,i could'nt beleive people still played the game.so i showed it to my wife and ask her if she would go with me,so my wife and 6 yr old daughter and a niece and nephew went to the convention,it was held by this company called miggle.when i first walked i could not beleive my eyes all the different displays guys had showing there electric football stuff,it was awesome!!!.this where i first met a one mr.reginald rutledge,he had a modal of the metro dome stadium in minnesota(remember that reg)it blew me away.it was there to that i met a fellow named dirk and boy did he love the cardinals at that moment i knew i wanted to get back in the hobby,so bought a few items from guys.my wife was also blown away by the items that were being sold,that's when i ran into a fellow from my hometown named terry i had not seen him in years.he introduced me to a couple of fellows named edger downs and frank johnson(and he also tried to sell me some of the ugliest figures that he painted into bears i had ever seen in my life,tudors ugly paint jobs looked like a picaso compared to these,my wife whispered to me if you by those things i am going to slap you in the back of your neck!!!)from there on i was hooked and back in the game,began to make friends with some of the most helpful and wonderful people a person could ever meet.and every year since then, the list of great friends in this hobby continues to grow.so i want to say thanks guys you are all my family!!!!

[sweetka]

Conned me into getting the game in 1969. My parents also purchased some additional teams at my request. My brother talked me into the whole thing. I swear to you all I boiled my first base in 1972 because the prongs got harder that year. Anyways, he went in played in the league over near Mumford High School are in Detroit. I never played in that League but Jim Davis did. My brother lost interest after a few games but the game stuck on me like glue. I just loved the challenge of manipulating the reeds to make the men run correctly. I played in the league near the Mumford area on Littlefield Street. I was about ten then and most of the players were adults. I learned a lot and started my own league at 14 and it ran for 25 years before Jim, Eric, and I helped to become a part of the Great Lakes project. It was Tony Johnson's idea after running the inaugural Ann Arbor summer League. Tony, Jim, Chuck P, and L, Shawn, Greg, Simmie, Pat, and others were charter membersf. The rest is what it is today. I think I stopped playing the year I got married cause I was whipped! I think I play more out of habit now than before but the past year is probably the most fun I have had with leagues due to the great people I play with. They are all classy people top to bottom because they all know that life is more important than hobby.

[canadatabletopgames]

when my uncle received a CFL electric football game. I used to play with him


Benster

[Electric Coach]

My aunt bought my first electric football game. She didn't know what she was doing. She just knew that it had something to do with football. I have been turned out ever since.

Maurice

The Electric Coach

[PraiseDaddy]

I remember asking for one for Christmas. Think I saw one in a department store. That Santa guy came up big. I was so excited and LOVED IT. I was 7 or 8 yrs old and knew nothing about improvisation or tweaking. Just a happy camper. Simply got the guy who ran the straightest and he was the RB. Played with my brothers and a lot of solitaire. Seems like I got one
about every other Christmas till I was about 15. I do seem to recall the bases with the metal tops with the magnetic football. Good times!!

[jwm8592]

As a kid growing up, football was life in my neighborhood. That's pretty much what we did all year round. I was probably 6 yrs old and saw a commercial on tv. Begged the folks for the game, and whoa and behold on Christmas day the 500 was under the tree. Best present I ever received, in the context of how much & often it was used. The players were the gorilla men, white & yellow figures. We also had know idea about tweaking, like others have said, we just found the guys that ran the fastest and they carried the ball. What fun it was!