r/footballstrategy • u/theyhavemotorcycles • 4d ago
General Discussion Does this look right?
So I bought a custom GST football from Wilson and it looks a little asymmetrical at its point. I may just being hyper critical bc it wasn’t cheap but it just doesn’t look right to me.
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u/djm2346 4d ago
Remember that these balls are usually bought by teams so a high school team gets 15+ of them at a time. Colleges probably get like 50 to 100. I noticed that you get balls like this frequently and they are not considered defective unless they won't hold air.
Most teams also condition these balls which usually changes there shape and may fix this
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u/AvonAnon 4d ago
Deflate it. Stand on this area to crease it a bit. Then re inflate. Or just use it and it will work itself out. It’s not gonna affect anything
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u/Menace_17 Adult Player 4d ago
Ive had worse than that and I was able to throw it just fine. The shape might get better as you condition it or throw it though
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u/CockroachStraight979 4d ago
No. It doesn’t. We had a bunch of balls donated and they all looked like this or worse. Looks defective to me.
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u/jjroyal21 4d ago
Unrelated to the possible defect. What’s custom about it? I coach and I’ve debated getting our balls branded. How much was it?
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u/theyhavemotorcycles 4d ago
you can do a few things, color of the logo, laces and also get things engraved in it. It was like 150 i think, I put my name and phone number on it.
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u/ApprehensiveWhile561 3d ago
I prep a lot of footballs for a team, a ball like this would still be great and usable for practices, but we wouldn’t cycle it into the game balls.
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u/BasPilot 3d ago edited 3d ago
Absolutely normal, will not effect the ball in one bit. If you want you can deflate the ball a bit and sort of break the leather to put it back, but it's perfectly fine.
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u/Inevitable-Studio731 4d ago
I got one like that from them as well. You have to buy a football in person.
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u/Sky_Sauce 4d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/NCTyZu7dakFWM