The Hidden History of the Football: From Pig Bladder to Perfect Spiral
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Ever wonder why the football is shaped like it is today? or why it has laces? or event called the 'ol pigskin This is the history of the football — from an inflated pig's bladder wrapped in leather to the precision handmade prolate spheroid they call "The Duke" in Ada, Ohio. You'll see how a chemist named Charles Goodyear, a frustrated Rugby shoemaker named Richard Lindon, and a Yale rule-maker named Walter Camp accidentally invented the modern game — and how legalizing the forward pass in 1906 forced that fat rugby ball to slim down into a spiral machine. Then, the opposite story: how an NFL kicker named Fred Cox made the anti-football — the Nerf — for safety, not precision. But here's where it gets interesting... almost none of this was planned. The evolution of the modern football is more accidental than deliberate. CHAPTERS: 00:00 The Pigskin Paradox 01:09 Before the Football: The Animal Bladder Era 02:16 The Shoemaker's Fix: Rubber, Lindon & The Accidental Oval 04:30 The Ameri
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