It really was the worst - Remembering Electric Football

It was irritating, noisy, it hummed and vibrated, it even had an adjustment nob that just made its irritating hum change pitch, temporarily. The "player" figures had about twenty rubber flagella that were "designed" for their mobility. The most any moved, if at all, was in a slow half circle. The game always seemed stupid and frustrating; it always outlasted our attention span by it's just being noisy and doing nothing close to the game it perpetrated to be on its box. It gave our young minds a hint of what was in store us when had to deal with government bureaucracy in the future. m/r

Remembering Electric Football
JACK CASHILL Dec. 25, 2013

Every other Christmas, in the guise of Santa, my kindly father would place under the tree a game that held an oddly wondrous appeal both for him and for us. The game was called simply “Electric Football.”

I say “oddly” because Electric Football may well have been the single worst game ever created. The “every other year” was a necessary interval to help us forget just how bad the game really was.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/remembering-electric-football/#CUBDFE6TO8Dz1oab.99