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Why do footballs used "in the college game" have stripes on them?  Watching the '69 Texas vs. Arkansas game for the umpteenth time, I noticed the balls did not have the white stripes, but they do now.  As a result, just about every pass looks a little wobbly on tv.

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5 minutes ago, idahorn said:

Why do footballs used "in the college game" have stripes on them?  Watching the '69 Texas vs. Arkansas game for the umpteenth time, I noticed the balls did not have the white stripes, but they do now.  As a result, just about every pass looks a little wobbly on tv.

don't you even do the google bro?

Why do college footballs have white stripes?

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The Traditional Football

The college football is the older, more traditional ball. Back in the mid-1920s, every football was made with white stripes. Then, in 1941, the NFL switched the color of the ball to white with black stripes for visibility during night games, according to Rick Walls, an Eastern Region Coordinator for the National Football Foundation, in an ESPN Magazine publication. As stadium lighting improved, the NFL began to seek alternative football colors, notes Walls. Wilson, the company that supplies the NFL and most colleges with their footballs, then made a prototype without stripes. Since night-game visibility wasn't an issue, the NFL chose to use the stripe-less ball to distinguish itself from the business of NCAA football.

 

 

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17 hours ago, Hurtlocker said:

... the business of NCAA football.

You fucking heretic! NCAA football is not a business! NCAA involvement in sports is based on the purest of motives, not on any disgusting profit. Take your lies to some other forum, sir. Fie, sir, fie!

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