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 ...

Asics and Mizuno will stop using kangaroo leather in their football boots as the sports equipment industry’s last major holdouts abandon a material beloved of elite stars such as Pelé, Diego Maradona ...

At that time, he said, leather patches on hats or ... to get game-used footballs from high school football teams and create patches to place on ball caps. Sperle and his wife, Katelyn, who is ...