The MPFL (Miniature Professional Football League) by Anthony D. Burgess

This is an update to a previous blog post published in March of 2024.

ELECTRIC FOOTBALL and the
Miniature Professional Football League (MPFL)

ELECTRIC FOOTBALL is the tabletop sports board game of American Gridiron Football first created and developed by the toy company of Tudor Metal Products Corporation and its Owner / President Norman Sas sometime in between when he first took over the company from his father, Elmer Sas, in 1947 and when the game was introduced to the toy and game market in 1949. Continue reading “The MPFL (Miniature Professional Football League) by Anthony D. Burgess”

NOT!! your Traditional Tabletop Sports Game

Game Play Action from a game of solitaire electric football circa 2024

When Electric Football was created and introduced to the toy and game market in 1949, it was marketed as a tabletop sports game of American Gridiron Football. It was unique from other tabletop sports games in that it had 22 individual miniature “action posed” football figure “players” that would all move independently of each other when the electromagnetic motor mounted underneath the metal game board playing surface, was activated, setting the whole thing in motion.

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