The Long Island Electric Football League was originally formed in 1972 by a group of friends in the Long Island area of New York. They have recently moved to The Villages of Florida.
Most of the information about this league can be found on the Forum of Tudor Games and you can follow along with it in the Strategy and Gameplay section of that forum.
About This League
December 2025. Happy Holiday! NEWS: The Long Island Electric Football League has Moved to the Villages in Florida. We are planning our next move to play. Thanks for the visit the Long Island Electric Football 67-Big-Men League. LIEFL, NEW YORK’S BEAST OF THE EAST IS A PAY FOR PLAY WELL ORGANIZED LEAGUE.There are no weak teams in this league PERIOD …
The LIEFL was officially formed in 1972. OVERVIEW: We are literally one of the most documented, dated and articulate record-kept historic leagues in the world, with an incredible history. We haven’t seen otherwise on the Forum or Worldwide.
Our main mission is to preserve the integrity and history of the LIEFL by building our own version of what we think serious “Advanced Play” should look like. Proud to be in the National Electric Football Game Museum, our rich tradition and history features using all 32-NFL teams using Tudor Games 67-BIG MEN custom decaled and painted uniforms in Home/Away. We use a combination of Tudor TTC player bases on the line, rookie bases both single and double clip for offensive play, and most recently adopted several I T Z player bases drafted into the league along with Tudor’s 600 Series Model Game Boards throughout the league. Some of our bases are historic and more than 50 years old.
We love researching all of the leagues around the world, and Solitaire coaches, and how their rules suit them. In the LIEFL, we believe the fun begins when a coach knows he has the chance to collect a nice paycheck by winning the phenomenal LIEFL Tournament of Champions at the end of a seven game season. Like it or not reality is, $money brings great and hefty competition. That worthiness, stiff and heavily vetted competition is intense. This year Legendary coach Ed Viggs shinned, earning $5,000 by winning a thriller in 2024 LIEFL Super Bowl XIX, when his Wild Card and Cinderella NFC Green Bay Packers upset the Las Vegas Raiders 24-18!
The vetting process in the league puts the best 11-men on the field through an incredible game changing annual draft. Our “Kaizen” philosophy is that when you put 32 ultra competitive and vetted teams in a league seeking constant improvement, it should mean that because of the process, NO team is safe in any game, making the competition fierce. That is the aim of the league.
In theory Win or Lose, Kaizen is the master of process improvement and excellence. We are constantly in motion improving and testing our draft players against proven warriors in the league, hunting to find the best potential player bases in order to perfect the game and league. The Kaizen process has been incredible. This 2025 season after four draft rounds, we replaced 30 player bases with higher performing bases through the draft.
RULES: The LIEFL has strict organized standards. There is a whole world of ballers out there beyond the Tudor and Miggle World of respected coaches who are legendary as well. You don’t have to be part of that Tudor Miggle World of competition to be a great coach. We have mixed up the competition with many leagues who have the same passion and high standards for the hobby as us.
So many hobbyists out there are still unaware of the Tudor Forum. We feel we have a hobbyists duty to get the word out there that electric football is alive and well internationally.
2024, will be our final season, and 10th straight seven-game format season after playing ten 14-game seasons. The “BEAST OF THE EAST” consisted of a solid ten or more highly skilled, organized, and former athletes.
Now Commissioner Billy O’C will decide what to do with this historic league. Why follow when we can lead? We are proud to ONLY play for $$$ money through league dues and sponsorship with our own worthy international Rules and Regulations! It is what makes the league so competitive. Playing for money sets a professional standard as a hobby. A payout absolutely fuels the competition, and it keeps competitive coaches committed and coming back for more year after year!
ADVANCED PLAY: One could argue that REAL “Advanced Play” is when the game has no aides to assist a coach to make a play, other than the Yellow or White Tudor kicker to pass and kick field goals, which YOU as coach controls, the players have their own patterns of performance throughout the league.
HERE’S THE DEAL FOR US. SKILLS: This league is old school. We have watched all the rules videos on YOUTUBE talking about advanced play with passing sticks, etc. That is awesome for Solitaire play, but for league competition, it doesn’t play out. The coach has to be able to juggle skills with player performance in a variety of ways that are more in tune with live football. As you know, it takes pure skill to hit a guy on the fly with accuracy from beyond 30-yards with that Tudor passer and foam football without any aides! It is that type of pure talent and football knowledge, and play calling with these plastic figures though, that one might consider the definition of advanced play. We noticed in many videos that many coaches do not use goal posts or even the foam football that are all part of the fun in the game, to treat the game like a real game.
The LIEFL prides ourselves on having great competition in a high-performance, high-stakes, fast-paced league, with NO-game stoppage for turns or runs, or stopping a game for defenders to turnaround and chase receivers after a play, it interferes with the natural continuity of a play. There are NO timing countdowns or long setup delays, NO calling or announcing pass or run, NO passing sticks, NO dice, NO over-sized weighed down figures or aides to pass in a game, and NO stops on a kickoff to give any team an unfair advantage. We are a ONE-STOP 35-second set up, fierce and fast paced league! Where in realistic football do they call run or pass to the opponent before a play? The only stop in this league is to pass the ball using a coach’s own passing skill with the Yellow or White Tudor Passer, and this year’s new setup rule of 35 seconds down five seconds from 2023, will impose lots of stress on coaches. The playmakers will rise to the occasion with witty coaching under the extreme pressure of the clock.
Every league should have their own rules, respectfully. In the LIEFL, nothing ever obstructs or interferes with the natural continuity of a play, or speed of a game. In other words, we let these “plastic minds” on the field make those decisions as soon as the start switch is clicked! We feel that is what the game is intended for, for the actual figures we prepare to do their job, without any human excellerants or aids in a league that produces high quality players who compete. Sometimes it feels like they have minds of their own, and they talk to us through their performance in which we trust!
There are so many great leagues around the world. To keep a league going and make a league great, with committed and skilled coaches, we have a great payout, which without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt, fuels competition in the league beautifully. That payout is the ignition switch and part of the dealmaker and dealbreaker, which has sparked our longevity as a league in its purity! In the LIEFL, these gritty playmaking coaches study the competition, can face the test of speed, performance, pressure of the clock, and they MUST have a strategic game plan that is functional and executable! That is the Long Island Electric Football League!
Everything in the league is voted on! We may agree to disagree on rules, but see how your league goes in intensifying the competition by putting the money on the dotted line! It changes everything, especially your DRAFT!
A Play for Pay League
One of the unique things about the Long Island EFL is that it is a “Play for Pay” league. League Commissioner Billy O’Conner submitted this Outline for how a league of this type can be successful.
Pay For Play League
To have a successful electric football league it takes excellent leadership and organizational skills, someone who truly has the passion to run a successful league, and someone who can create the nucleus of success in your league.
Before taking another step, the most important combination to a successful League is commitment and follow through action. Without true commitment by its coaches and commissioner how can a league possibly succeed? If people in the league can’t trust the people who run the league, your league will fail.
Central to your league’s success is fantasy of success vs. action and follow through success by its members. As a league, the organizer has to have the savvy to keep things together. This person should be the glue to forming the league, running the league, and performing as a league. Nothing happens without someone taking a leadership role, and while it may be uncomfortable at times that person will represent the hub of your success.
Members should live within a 25 mi radius to ensure that the league runs on time every week, preferably one solid day of a few hours, which would be subject to the number of teams and coaches in the league. Determine how long your games will be.
In the LIEFL our regular season games are 30 minutes with no timeouts and playoffs are a regular 60 minute game with two timeouts per half for each team. It has worked better than good!
The league will thrive on competition with a strong vetted draft, collaborative decision making by all members which should always be subject to debate and ruling and overruling arguments with a simple coin toss.
Step One: Determine what you want out of your league. Invite real coaches who are about the tradition of the game, and or advertise your league on the Tudor Forum, Facebook, or any social media platform to build your league by determining how many coaches your league can handle.
Determine how many coaches there will be through a registration process and determine a fee for each coach to join. That number should officially be transparent to the penny of how much is collected and how much goes back to the league for future accessories.
NOTE: For example, with ten coaches who paid dues, the LIEFL this season has a registration fee of $300. We also have a sponsor who contributes $1,000 or more. Our Super Bowl XVIII Payout in 2023, went to our SB Champion in the amount of $3,200 dollars. All members voted to only pay the Super Bowl winner, not the runner up. The entrusted Commissioner is responsible for the payout to the winner.
If your league doesn’t work out you are responsible for refunding your coaches their registration fee in its entirety.
Step Two: Once you are grounded as a league, name the league and post the league on your information outlet, posting should be transparent. Keep a running email list of your coaches and keep them informed at all times. Determine what game boards will be allowed and delegate who would be responsible for bringing game boards and where will you all meet. Figure out a seven game season and pilot a first year that will be easily managed and successful. In a league of ten, four game boards work great!
NOTE: This is the LIEFL’s eighth season using a seven game format along with a strong playoff tournament consisting of only the best teams. We are a strong island!
Official Rules MUST be developed and agreed upon through fierce debating with the majority ruling the body.
For example, in the LIEFL, we immediately agreed and voted that there would be no countdowns in our league, no passing sticks or posts, no dice, and or anything that would interfere with the raw talent a coach needs to pass in a game using the Yellow or White Tudor Kicker/Passer. We use goal posts and a foam football.
There is one ruling body and that is the clock during a game. Also, there is just ONE game stop allowed during a single play, and that is to pass. We do not stop the game ever on a running play or passing play until the player with the ball is either tackled or runs out-of-bounds. Both offense and defense must be set within the boundary of the league setup time using an established set of rules. For Example, 40 seconds, or 35 seconds to setup. Also, there are never game stops for players to turn and chase receivers on any play whatsoever. The natural continuity of the play is paramount and should never be interrupted in the league which has a fiery pace!
Your league has to settle these arguments before you play.
Step Three: Debate and determine how many teams will be in your league, the types of “size and style” figures, a uniform code with home and away uniforms that will be acceptable in your league, and finally, confirm the player base types allowed in the league.
Step Four: When you are ready to launch your new league, much has to happen. We don’t acknowledge any league that doesn’t keep a log of historic information and or statistics. A league can call itself whatever you want, but coaches love to see the stats. What is a league without officially kept standings, records and statistics that all coaches play a role in keeping. For example, in the LIEFL over the lifetime of our historic league, we have Rushing, Receiving, Kick Return, and All-Purpose Yard Leaders. We keep a roster for every team, with every player’s name, with Touchdowns, Tackles, and Awards for the lifetime of that player. See all this on the Tudor Forum.
In Summary:
-Choose your coaches wisely so that you create the right synergy and positivity for your league.
-Coaches who quit should not be able to return to the league unless there’s an emergency
-Have a time and location agreed upon for games in your league
-Avoid any cancellations
-Establish the right to expel or remove unruly coaches (voted on) in your league.
-Have a registration Fee
-Have a ruling Body in the event your rules are pressed in the league among coaches.
-Have a body that keeps accurate statistics to measure the growth in your league so that you may implement a draft.
That is the basics. There is so much more.
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