Electric Football? Elton John - Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player Elton John and the early seventies, a time when toy companies were hopelessly designing high tech products such as the incredible "Electronic CFL Football" by Coleco. This game reminded me of that good old joke/card game called "52 Card Pick Up". You know you'd challenge you friend with "hey, wanna play 52 Card Pick Up?" and he'd say "sure". So you would rifle the deck of cards around the room and say "Ok, pick them up!" Well as you can imagine this one usually ended up in a brawl of sorts but the Electronic CFL Football defied all human sensibility. There was no joke, no skill, no real entertainment. The scaled down, regulation, CFL playing field was this colourful metal board surrounded by a rim. Each team had the standard 12 players. You would spend about 10 minutes lining the players up, then the team on offence would turn the board "on". At this time the 110 volts of raw electric power would be altered to vibrate this playing field and make a noise mush like rocks in a glass blender. You would sit and watch in fascination as these player moved randomly around the table until...play stopped due to someone going off side, the ball went out of bounds or your player ran into your own end zone. This retarded football was usually out for about three plays each and we lost interest. Keep in mind three plays each took about 3 and 1/2 hours! I guess when you are a pre-teen you are still fascinated by bright colours and a game that plugs in, cause other than that this one was useless.