Comments on: Norman Sas, inventor of Electric Football, dies at 87

By: footballchic777

footballchic777 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:00:48 +0000

I played this with my grandpa when I was a little girl….loved it!

By: vikings69

vikings69 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:07:08 +0000

Mr. Sas

Thank you for all the contributions. RIP

VMGTOYZ
President
Gayla Beck

By: inallsincerity

inallsincerity — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:57:06 +0000

RIP Mr. Sas. I still have mine from the 1979 SB, Dallas Cowboys vs my favorite team: Pittsburgh Steelers. It still works too. I even have some of the generic players that I painted with Testors paint in the color scheme of my favorite college team at the time: Michigan Wolverines. I must say, I did a damn good job on those helmets too…HA!

By: randolph32

randolph32 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:53:09 +0000

I hated this game, it was just plain stupid…there was an NFL Hall of Fame Game called FOTO ELECTRIC FOOTBALL, with a light bulb. Each player (2) would put a play down upside down and you’d pull back a card that revealed the light, AND then you’d know when the player was tackled, pass completed, etc.

Didn’t have intimacy of vibrations, but much more realistic.

By: klownboy

klownboy — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:52:24 +0000

I remember my brother and friends playing electric football through the middle of the night on weekends. Rest in peace Norman…

By: godofwine330

godofwine330 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:37:56 +0000

My favorite memory was when my brother and I got the game (me born in 77 and him in 78) the electricity hardly worked. We found it easier to unplug it and bang with our hands on the game to simulate the electric effect. We got hours and hours of fun out of a broken game.

We didn’t have video games as a kid, and being children of the 80′s (basically) we were creative. Our mother got the game for us and we played it from like 87-90. I can still picture us banging on the metal making the little men move. When we got Tecmo Superbowl electric football was pushed under the bed never to be played with the same vigor again, but those memories will last a lifetime.

By: johnnythek1

johnnythek1 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:03:31 +0000

My favorite memory was when two opposing linemen, whose arms were raised up to block, would lock arms and then whirl around together in a demented dosey do dance. Definitely the game of choice for the generation raised on Monty Python.

I also enjoyed pretending to be the P.A. address announcer: “He’s at the 30, the 25, now back to the 30, now to the 50, run out of bounds after a backwards run of -35 yards. Wait! He’s fallen into the carpet! This doesn’t look good, Jim!”

By: fwippel

fwippel — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:31:04 +0000

As crazy as it sounds for my children and their generation, I loved this game.

I had one as a kid, and absolutely enjoyed playing it. The vibrating field, the little felt footballs, and trying to keep the ball-carrier protected from the defense. I passed many a cold winter day with this game, while waiting for Sunday’s NFL games to roll around.

By: joetoronto

joetoronto — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:56:32 +0000

I remember my buddy having one back in the 60′s, we played that friggin thing till it died, great game.

A couple of decades later, “Sratomatic Football” came out and my friends and I would always see the sun come up while we were playing, that’s how good it was.

RIP, Mr Sas.

By: pcoisma

pcoisma — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:17:56 +0000

American jets cant be seen, American might has have NO need to prove. Be seen by AMERICA! Make America uncomfortable.

By: bluestree

bluestree — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:24:17 +0000

Mine had the qb that had the control fin on the back for aiming your passes ( I was career o-384 with no td’s) who was also the kicker. And yeah, you teased the little plastic tabs to make players (either the guard who was in a three point stance, or tackle, who was in a hulking two point) drift in one direction while you steered the qb. My running backs, with their perpetual stiff arm, never got the feltball.

By: warhol63

warhol63 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:26:33 +0000

Great memories of a great game. Had the Rams/Cowboys version as well and my brothers and I would play for hours on end. Never could control the movement too well but that was part of the fun.
RIP Mr. Sas.

By: fatguystrangler

fatguystrangler — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:24:18 +0000

My dad bought me an electric football set at a Farmers Market 20 years ago. When he hooked it up and showed it to me, I didn’t know what to think at first. We played it a few times, and I put away Sega’s Joe Montana Sports Talk Football for awhile. It was goofy, but did the trick.

By: deanok

deanok — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:11:59 +0000

I remember playing my buddies and made it to the championsip game only to lose the game while going in for the td my running back reversed course and vibrated all the way to the wrong end zone with a blocker trailing close bhind to insure the loss i was crushed and so was the game .

By: hoopjack

hoopjack — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:34:39 +0000

I had the Rams Cowboys one also.
I grew up a Redskins fan, but always had a soft spot for the rams, go figure:)
Great game, great memories.

By: apcsteel

apcsteel — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:27:32 +0000

Electric football still their are tournaments around the country for a chance to play in the super bowl which is held in las vegas evey year. Google eletric football and find out the details.

By: victorycruz

victorycruz — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:06:20 +0000

Must be before my time, I was born in 82 and got into football in 87. I was into anything football related, I even had a John Elway hand held game that had the field already on the screen and when u turned it on u had a mini player on the screen and was extremely hard to play, then came the Tecmo Bowl days. I never came accross this electronic football, but if I had my hands on it in the 1980′s I would’ve been down to play.

By: hkemp99

hkemp99 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:03:01 +0000

I owe this guy for a very happy part of my childhood. Thanks, Mr. Sas!

By: td40

td40 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:42:48 +0000

No strategy. Turn it on and hope for the best

By: briang123

briang123 — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:41:50 +0000

In retrospect, that game really, really sucked and a total waste of time and money.

By: bishopdon

bishopdon — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:40:36 +0000

On second thought , I had the Rams , Cowboy set also. Rams were blue jerseys whith White pants..
did anybody use that stupid clock?

By: cuffhimbanano

cuffhimbanano — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:32:38 +0000

Let’s keep things in perspective. We only loved this game because it was about the only thing at the time.
You can live in denial or accept the fact that Madden 2012 in 1970 would have been way way way awesomer than electronic football.

By: bradygirl12

bradygirl12 — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:28:17 +0000

I had the Rams vs the Cowboys version. I loved that game! Still have it in the attic.

By: xxbomberxx

xxbomberxx — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:15:55 +0000

I heard they took hours organizing his funeral but once it started everybody just ran together in a big pile smashing into each other. Norman wouldnt have had it any other way. R.I.P

By: lakermetskins

lakermetskins — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:04:42 +0000

My electric field always died, so we had to tap the field to emulate electricity- very easy to cheat by tapping hard. Real fun stuff.

By: bishopdon

bishopdon — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:46:17 +0000

Always like to take apart the control and just touch the wires together.Had the NFL chamspionship set(before NFC) Cowboys in white and Giants in dark.. Much better when the footballs were made of felt before they made them out of foam rubber. great game RIP.

By: mjkelly77

mjkelly77 — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:28:25 +0000

I had the game in the early ’60′s, before it got fancy. You’d bend the filament under the player in an effort to get him to run an end around. It really was a lot of fun. Wonder what they’re going for on ebay?

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:24:38 +0000

We acquired Tudor Games and the entire Electric Football line of products in February 2012. This classic game will be integrated into the digital age! Stay tuned for some great hands-on sports retrotainment You’ll see Electric Football back in stores soon and online now. http://www.tudorgames.com Mr. Sas was a true gentleman.

By: dikhurtz

dikhurtz — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:22:36 +0000

I always liked to turn the control dial for the vibration on high and watch the players bounce off the field onto the floor. Oh, and never could complete a pass on the first try, always had to do two out of three. Great game !!!!!I guess on a comparison basis that would be like Mcnabb and instant replay

By: delshofner

delshofner — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:47:54 +0000

For all of you youngsters with your Madden this, and your XBox that … us old-timers grew up playing with plastic statues on metal field that vibrated to make them move. No, seriously, that was the game! And we actually thought it was super cool.

The QB was way taller than the rest, and was also the kicker (only one with moving limbs). You had to toss or kick a little felt football and there was zero control on those things.

The coolest part for me, was that the players came in just white or yellow. So me and my Dad would spend hours painting the red and blue on the white ones for the Giants, and forest green on the yellow ones for the Packers (who were the biggest rival in the early 60’s). They also came with number decals, so I looked through them and put the right numbers on the OL guys, WR’s, etc. Anyway, it seemed way cooler than board games.