So it really took an MIT grad to come up with electric football ... If we could come up with some football figures and get them running against each other, we’d have a football game.’” ...

When the “Tudor TRU-ACTION Electric Football Game was released in 1949, it “brought a realism to sports toys that had never been seen before,” Earl Shores and Roddy Garcia wrote in “The ...

Hasbro has teamed up with the NFL for a series of football-themed Transformers. The action figures can all transform into helmets representing the four teams included in the collection.

Got all that? First and foremost, electric football is based on the game of football. Coaches use plastic figures known as players, which are mounted on bases with prongs, to run offense ...

Electric Football was simple. One metal playing field and 11 plastic figures on a rectangular stand ... and the metal would vibrate them into action. The "players" would rumble all over, caring ...