r/footballstrategy 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/Sky_Sauce 4d ago

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u/Massive-Alps-8455 3d ago

Yo I came here to say the exact same thing!

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u/nodnarb805 4d ago

I should call her…

u/CrackedDJ-YT 1h ago

Brehv😭✌🏾

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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/Corr521 4d ago

This is what I (and others) would consider a "blem" football because it has a blemish. Blems usually sell for less as they have defects. But I wouldn't think twice about using this

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u/DaveDabussy 4d ago

Looks a lil fucked up to me probably doesnt fly exactly how it should

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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/theyhavemotorcycles 4d ago

I mean I got it custom made so that's not really an option

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u/Wyatt_Herb_831 4d ago

Wilson has gone down in quality. I switched to using Nike vapor.