Tournament Histories

Tournaments have been a favorite format for players of electric football to get together and compete against each other for several years. I am not sure when or where the first formally organized tournament occurred but in 1995, Miggle Toys, the maker of Tudor Games Electric Football, made a decision that would forever change the course of the history of electric football.

“In a contest open to the hundreds of thousands of Electric Football players around America, the competition challenged Electric Football fans to set up their ultimate offensive play and ideal defensive adjustment and then send videotapes of their creations to Miggle Toys. A panel of judges selected  the four best entries  and brought the winners to Chicago  to play for the Tudor Super Bowl of Electric Football Trophy. 

The response to this event was overwhelming. As Miggle Toys received hundreds of videotapes, the national media covered the game and its loyal followers. Newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Sporting News and Chicago Tribune wrote feature stories, while ABC’s Good Morning America Sunday displayed the game on a Christmas special. SportFan Radio’s Kate Delaney probably summed up the excitement that Electric Football fans felt when, during an interview with Landsman, she declared “I LOVE YOU!”” – Plugged In!, Spring 1995

The First Annual Super Bowl of Electric Football took place in Chicago, IL at Micheal Jordan’s Restaurant on Saturday, January 21, 1995. Download the Spring 1995 issue of Plugged In! to read all about this historical event and visit our NEFGM Library – Plugged In! section to download all the issues that cover these Miggle Electric Football and Super Bowl Tournament Events.

I started attending some of these events in 1999. Here are 2 Preservation Project Booklets that I have created one of which that contains some of the rules and other information from those events and another that list every tournament and award winner form each of these conventions and tournaments.