If there was such a thing as an Electric Football Hall of Fame, Full Color Electric Football would serve perfectly as the Hall’s virtual tour guide. The photos are beautiful and they capture the essence of so many baby boomers’ Christmases and childhoods.
— Greg Eno, Journalist, host of The Knee Jerks podcast
The NFL’s Toy Story
Full Color Electric Football is the NFL’s Toy Story in High Definition! It’s an epic all-photo journey through the history of America’s most iconic sports toy. Christmas morning memories come to life with every turn of the page.
Christmas Dreams On Every Page
Over 250 stunning images display the full legacy of this great toy. NFL games, NFL teams, catalog pages, rule books, production photos — all as never seen before. In addition, all the best items from toymakers Tudor Games, Gotham, Coleco, and Munro, are featured. As they were, and how kids imagined them to be. The result is a colorful collage of NFL dreams in miniature!
Full Color Electric Football is the second book from the writing/design team of Earl Shores, Roddy Garcia, and Michael Kronenberg. It’s the follow up to their acclaimed The Unforgettable Buzz (2013). This time Shores, Garcia, and Kronenberg combine NFL history, toys, and American culture into a seamless visual display that transcends all the individual elements. Not only does Electric Football become the stuff of our dreams, the game becomes art.
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Praise for Full Color Electric Football
More than a nostalgic nod to a much loved game, Full Color Electric Football deftly documents the rise of pro football, the equally innovative (and competitive ) path of iconic toy companies like Tudor, whose evolution changed their game as much as, say, the no huddle offense shifted the NFL’s gears. I have been playing electric football since I was four (I’m now 59), and am proud to say my late brother and I convinced our folks to put more than a few of the Incarnations of the game beneath our Christmas tree. Even so, I learned a lot about that which took place in the companies’ respective “huddles.”
These stories are recounted by the authors in a brisk, informative fashion. (Think of your favorite team’s offense when it’s clicking.) You don’t have to be a dyed-in-the-wool fan of this game to enjoy it. Three of my best friends proved this the other day. Trust me – you’ll return to this book again and again.
— Reuben Jackson, author, poet, Host of Vermont Public Radio’s Friday Night Jazz, former Curator of the Duke Ellington Collection at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC
I can’t say enough about this book and what joy it brings to me as I look through the beautiful photographs of fields, teams, box artwork and ads that not only trace the game of electric football but the history of football itself! The artwork on the old fields pictured in the book not only capture the game, but the outside frame of the field from each new year expressed the artwork of those times.
The photos in Full Color Electric Football show brilliantly all the beauty of these games and bring back memories not only of the electric football game I had as a child, but memories from watching the NFL on TV throughout the years and all the exciting unforgettable games that were played. Electric football allowed me to replay those games on my living room floor and gave me the chance to keep my heroes playing long past their actual retirements.
Full Color Electric Football is nostalgic, beautiful, memorable and interspersed with historical facts about electric football as well as the history of professional football. This books real beauty though, isn’t necessarily what’s on its pages, but its what those pages bring back to life from your memory. Times with friends and family, great games, losses, wins, forgotten hobbies, life events and simpler times. If you had the game as a kid or if you didn’t and are a football fan you will want this book close at hand and I guarantee you will find your smile growing with every turn of the page!
— Lynn Schmidt, Electric Football “Coach” since 1968, National Administrator for the Miniature Football Coaches Association