Norman Sas, electric football inventor, dies at 87
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Norman Sas, a mechanical engineer who created electric football, a tabletop game with a vibrating metal field and unpredictable plastic players that captivated and frustrated children and nostalgic grown-ups for decades, has died. He was 87.
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When Sas took over the company in the late 1940s, he was set on using the technology to create a football game. It was introduced by Tudor in 1949 and, with the flick of a switch, sent its tiny players vibrating haphazardly around the field, a felt ball in one of their hands. For children of that era, it was unlike anything they'd ever seen.
''You had your own NFL right there on your living room floor,'' said Earl Shores, a writer who interviewed Sas for his forthcoming book on electric football, ''The Unforgettable Buzz,'' which he wrote with Roddy Garcia.
The game could be infuriatingly slow and its players' movements nearly impossible to predict, but its popularity endured. Shores still plays occasionally with his game, which he received as an 8-year-old on Christmas morning 1968
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One of the greatest games ever invented! RIP, Norman.
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when they sold their house!!
But this was the best: Munro Hockey Master
