On Friday, July 20, 2012 9:22:42 AM UTC-5, MickeyMoop wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:19:29 DM UTCRM-42, Don Stockbauer, Don Stockbauer wrote and Malick continued filming and the caravan moved on and the fickle finger was fated to stimulate daleks across the Liffy: TISH YOU SPOKE FRENCH
> > Who is this Kubrick fellow? He was no Ben Jonson,
> >
> > Dr. Gottlieb would meet fierce resistence. I believe my boys could brush him aside with no trouble.
>
> "As Friday's Times reported, Norman Sas, inventor of the Tudor tabletop electronic football game, died late last month, at 87.
> "In 1963, I had one of those games. It kinda worked. Kinda. Nah, it never worked. Still, I spent many winter hours at it, forcing it to work, at least in my mind.
> "I made it the Giants vs. the Packers, applied the correct jersey numbers to the metal-based plastic players.
> "I ran the Giants out of a two-back formation, lined them up as Allie Sherman would.
> "It probably took 10 minutes to set up all 22 'players' after every 'play.'
> "Then you would turn on the switch and the players would vibrate in all directions, some would just immediately topple over, but some actually would block straight ahead all the way to the end zone - even if they were on defense.
> "I used to 'fix' games so that No. 16, Frank Gifford, would 'catch' a pass in the flat then 'run' for a touchdown.
> "But there was something that caused No. 16, once it reached the 10-yard line, to turn and 'run' in the opposite direction.
> "Didn't matter. I would set it all up again, this time a long pass, No. 14, Y.A. Title, to No. 85, Del Shofner, who would 'catch' the felt football I inserted under his arm, then fall over and spin in a circle, like Curly in 'The Three Stooges.'
> "Thanks, Mr. Sas. It sure beat homework." - Phil Mushnick, New York Post, July 15, 2012
Football makes me vomit.