What is the craziest thing you did while playing or setting up to play a game of EF

[46defense]

i remember as young lad watching some of the older guys playing electric football,some of the crazy things thay would do,for instance.i watched a guy put powder all over his board and set it up to play outside on his porch in 30 degree weather.he said that the powder was snow on the field and playing outside in the cold simulated playing in the elements.can you say coo-coo.also watched this same guy pour water over his board with one of those water buckets with a spout with holes saying it was raining on the field,and wanting to plug it up but his dad said that he must have lost his mind and would not let him plug it up.if he had i was going to be outta there real fast!!!!.i also watch a guy break the arms off the de figure of the fab five figs and glue 2 of those long matches that he had cut down to the figure for arms,this way it acted like a battering ram.the matches still had the sulfer on the end that could be lit.and one guy that he was playing got so mad at him for having a figure that did this to his offensive line,lit the matches on his figure so that he could not use it anymore.the thing is he lit them while the figure was on the board and moving in game action. those were some crazy times back then.so guys tell me some of your crazy happenings in your electric football lives.

[GreenBayGlenn]

I'm not sure what playing a game of "ELF" is all about, but them's fighting words if you are making fun of the little dude with the pointed ears that is the unofficial Browns mascot! LOL!

...where his head is!!!

My 1987 BRONCOS were playing Eric Harmon's RAIDERS. Bo Jackson dominated the season up until that game! Bo got stuffed by the Orange Crush 3 straight scrums in a row and unjustly got smacked off the field by his Coach, crashing into the wall and reappearing on the field sans cranium. The Maddenism that comes to mind is: "The bad news is, his helmet came off; the good news is, his head wasn't in it!" That wasn't true in this case!!!

We tore that room apart looking for the head and even years after he moved out of his parents' house, he said he looked everywhere in the empty room and still couldn't find it.

Every game Bo played after that, he wasn't the same. It just seemed like something was missing.

[5-13 Studios]

Originally Posted by GreenBayGlenn

I'm not sure what playing a game of "ELF" is all about, but them's fighting words if you are making fun of the little dude with the pointed ears that is the unofficial Browns mascot! LOL!

the brownie! that was the official mascot in the 40's and 50's. and wouldn't you know it, art modell phased it out in the mid 60's.

i don't know how crazy it is, as much as it's silly, but when i was young, i inherited my dad's 500 board and figures, as well as having a super bowl set with the steelers and rams. over the next couple of years my team collection grew to about 12, and the motor stopped working on the 500. i got the bright idea at that time, that i wanted to use the super bowl board for the super bowl only, and proceeded to set up games and TAP the 500 board throughout the entire game (with a super bowl board that worked perfectly well in the closet:rolleyes: ). i made it through about 6 or 7 games before i decided to just play a super bowl. i can't remember exactly who played, but i did not own the saints at that time, so probably i probably put the browns in with someone, maybe the giants, and actually played the game on a working field.

A lot of the things I could disclose on this subject are not fit for public consumption. To coin a popular phrase... "You had to be there." That's all I have to say about that.

What I can say is much milder in comparison......

As a (very) young kid I used Elmer's Glue to stick a firecracker to the back of a Standard (think old big players molded to stands) RB figure. I cut the fuse short too! I set up both teams in Kick formations w/that RB as the KR. I lit the fuse and turned on the board. I wanted to see if he could make it to the End Zone before going BOOM! It didn't quite work out the way I planned. GO FIGURE! He didn't make it to the other end zone.... due to more than one reason. He got hung up around his own 40 or so, locked up w/his blockers and the KO team in a sort of scrum. The KR and quite a few other players (on both teams) never made it to play another down.... for obvious reasons.

In retrospect, it was a very stupid stunt. I could have injured an eye from the flying debris. No one was in the room but me. I was bored and I always was one to hold science experiments. Which is dangerous when you do not have the ability to grasp the possible consequences. Again, it was a stupid stunt. But I did it... once.

-Mike Pratt

[bigdawg43]

First all of the players had to have names. My mothers white pages and elmers glue too care of that - boy she used to be mad to find half of the phone book gone.

We had the cold weather games with the flour on the board but they had to be played outside on someones porch, of course, in the cold.

We used an aluminum foil football and you could always tell when the receiver caught the ball. I think the funniet thing was using the paper football for field goals. We would stack our men on top of each other at the line and hope that someone would throw it off course -- ahhhhh-- good times, good times!!!!

[The Rookie]

5-13
I understand completely
I had my field break down on many times as a kid
I would use a pencil to hit the board real fast to the men move until I got another board.

[GreenBayGlenn]

I remember in the fifth grade bringing my players to school and my friend would bring his teams and we would tap the wooden desktops to move the players. I thought this guy was rich because he had all the teams! I couldn't believe it. I thouht I was living the good life when I ordered my first team, the "blue" Minnesota Vikings in 1969. That team was very popular then, and I just had my heart broken when Lombardi retired from the Packers, so I was on the Viking bandwagon that year.

I learned the fine art of "board tapping" at school but easily used that "new skill" to tap out several games when I broke the switch on my own board at home!

[Treks1]

A few years ago I was on my way to River Rouge, MI to play a game in Detroit City League, which on a good day is about an hour away from me. On this summer day, ALL lanes of the highway were closed, so I had to take a Detour that literally took me all over God's green earth, So after finally getting there just as I am getting off of the expressway I realize I left me team at home.

You learn a lot about yourself in this hobby......

[46defense]

steve now that's funny!!!!