While the common belief is that electric football was invented in Pratts kitchen, the truth is that it was developed by Gunther Burkhaulter of the Gestapo in 1942 in a little town called Sindelfingen, which is just a grenade's throw away from Stuttgart, Germany. Yes, electric football was used as a tool of torture to get information from the prisoners. 2 hours of watching the little guys spin around in circles was enough to crack the toughest of men and reduce them to a mound of sniveling jelly! Eventually it was banned as being inhumane by the Geneva Convention in their 1949 revisions
