After retiring from the league, he would throw the ball with kids in his neighborhood. He noticed a problem: The footballs weren't the right size for their hands, and the laces and leather felt ...

a ball made out of 92 panels: 12 pentagons and 80 hexagons. The Original 92s were crafted out of Italian leather and hand-sewn together. Wheatley calls them the most expensive football on the ...

Leather arrives every week from the ... inserted and the football is laced together by hand. A football’s shape is not actually a ball in the spherical sense of the word, but a prolate spheroid ...