How a FOOTBALL is Broken In By “MUDDING” | Sports Dissected

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The celebrating wide-receiver who always throw the ball to the fans is this guy's worst enemy :)

As a kid I always wonder why the game bald looked different from the store balls even tho they were the same. This is why

That throw tho lmaoo. great video bro love the content

1-Brush 2-Shaving cream (remove w/ brush) 3-Leather conditioner (sit 40 minutes, avoid laces) 4-Heat gun 5-Mud (sit 18 hours, remove w/ damp rag & brush) 6-Brush (30 minutes)

I think it's cool that in a hightech world we still look to mud to make something better lol

seems like a job someone made up so they weren’t jobless lol an was like “nah dude you need me, i mud the balls”

i worked for the steelers and we had to scrub the new balls when they came in by hand with a brush for hours. Our hands would be stained orange for weeks

Ayo my boy broke in a whole new football to throw a duck like that 😂😂

I remember learning about this while watching a Bengals pre-season game. And the ball mudder (I think that's a good name for this job lol) said that their might be 32 different ways to do it based on each starting QBs preference. Cool stuff.

“It all about the girth, guys like the wider balls...” he tried to make it sound better and made it sound worse 😂

I have never felt more in touch with a sports content creator before. I constantly have these questions about sports and Sports Dissected is here with the in-depth answers. Awesome stuff COISKI!

This has zero impact on my life. Like literally, I've never even held a proper American football in my life, being from Europe... but it's nice to see people nerd out about a thing they're passionate about.

Back when I was a Qb in the 80's we weren't allowed to mud up balls in college. Let alone in the pros. Not even the kickers, or punters balls. This is why Romo fumbled the hold in the playoffs. New ball, no gloves, super slick! The NFL up until 10 years ago made you use new game balls. In the Super Bowl your screwed. Because they bring out new balls almost every down, so the balls can be taken out of the game, signed, and given to VIPs. By the second hslf all balls are usually broken in better. And you will see better passing, and catching happening. If you didn't have a gigantic hand as a Qb. You dreaded the new balls in a game. Consider also, that your center is usually sweating all over it as well. So now you have a wet, slick, new ball.

Fun Fact about the mud they're using. It is sourced from a piece of property owned by a small family that never let's ANYBODY source mud from their property, effectively monopolizing their mud to be the only mud bought for use in professional sports like baseball mainly but also sometimes in football. There's a documentary about them somewhere on YouTube.

This explains why at practice the brown balls were always better to throw with on the sideline

No way I thought they were just originally dark brown. A lot of effort man. Good stuff

Imagine putting all that work into a ball then Gronk spikes the air out of it

Y'all should take a tour of their basketball practice facility

Good stuff. Always interesting to see the processes and events that go into preparing sports teams.