Tudor, inside its game instructions booklet, displayed full-color photos of all the NFL teams depicted as electric football players, painted in replica uniforms, in home and dark jerseys.

The electric football league kicked off its first event here in the Kansas City metro area. ... we are able to paint the men detailed figures with 3D figures and that kind of thing,” said Schmidt.

Norman A. Sas, 87, who invented the popular vibrating table-top game called Tudor Electric Football, died June 28 at his home in Vero Beach, Fla.

Long before the days of "Tecmo Bowl" and "Madden," Electric Football was king. Norman Sas, who invented the game in 1948, recently died at the age of 87.