I want you to think back to your childhood and imagine the toy you treasured most.

The game you spent hours playing or just your favorite way to have fun.

As a child I was a loner and I really enjoyed sports.

As a kid growing up in Minneapolis in the 1970s, Paul Dixon loved following the Minnesota

Vikings and the twins. He'd stay up late into the night sitting by a tiny transistor

radio just listening to baseball games. And when he wasn't listening to the games,

his world revolved around his electronic football set.

It's a replica of a football field and you plug it into the outlet and when you plug

it into the outlet you have you know 11 guys on each side you know replicating a football

team and they kind of buzz along on the field so it's basically a football game that is

being played on a smaller field.

Paul would spend hours imagining that he was the manager of the Minnesota Vikings.

He was analyzing plays and directing his team to victory.

But like most of us as Paul got older, he stopped playing.

I guess you could say it just kind of got pushed to the side for whatever reason because

life gets in the way you know how to child got married, start working and didn't allow

myself enough time to have individual genuine play.

Adult Paul was now working several very serious jobs until by happenstance a toy buying

job opened up and that job transformed my life.

And the reason why it transformed my life is I mean okay come on you're an adult and

you're a toy buyer.

Think Tom Hanks in the movie Big.

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