The New York Times reports that Norman Sas, the inventor of electric football, has died at the age of eighty-seven. I like this comment from Mr. Sas’s wife Irene: “It wasn’t just something you turned on and it vibrated. It was something you did with your little men.”
I remember spending a small part of my early adolescence attempting to play electric football. It was a total waste of time, not even exasperating enough to be funny. This thirteen-second clip from The Simpsons gives an accurate picture of the “game.”
[That last set of quotation marks are for what Garner’s Modern American Usage calls “so-called-but-not-really.”]
Friday, July 13, 2012
Norman Sas (1925–2012)
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Indeed, the game's outcome consisted of little more than the players ending up deadlocked along the sidelines. Now, Power Play Hockey, on the other hand...
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Now that game looks cool.
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