Since the mid-1980s, I've owned Electric Football, which is a essentially a vibrating metal board painted to look like a football field. Switch it on, and watch in dismay as your little plastic running back nudges forward a half inch before doing an about-face and flutters toward his own endzone. Good times.
While surfing the Internet to learn more about this classic boyhood game, I came across this video, which I hope will lighten your mood this NFL Sunday as you fall farther behind in your fantasy and pick 'em leagues.
This article appears in Oct 22-28, 2008.