Football Toys Of Olde: Super Toe
3 Comments Published by Alex January 30th, 2007 in Games, Sports. Share This
Back in the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons—and that would be the early/mid ’70s—the Christmas toys were simpler, less fragile, and occasionally dangerous. One hugely popular toy line was the Super Jock action sets; they had a version for baseball, basketball, hockey, and of course, football.
The idea behind all of them was to pound on the little toy jock’s head, which would swing a bat, slap a puck, shoot a basket, or in the case of Super Toe, kick a field goal. As you can see from the list of memories from feelingretro.com, an unsurprising number of kids managed to destroy their houses with these things.
Take that, Wii!
I used to love my Super Toe! I don’t think I destroyed any houses or furnishings, but I’m pretty sure I beaned a couple cats.
I still have one of these, well, it’s at my dad’s house, and my nephews and neice absolutely LOVE it!
I was just remembering some of the great Christmas gifts in the past and Super toe came to mind. My friends and my self had fun and we tried to see whole can kick the longest field goal…Poor super toe head..