The biggest football game of the year is on February 4th! Even though we don’t know which teams are headed to the Super Bowl yet, we do know one star of the show: the football.
The Wilson Football Factory in Ada, Ohio, has been supplying the National Football League (NFL) with footballs since 1955. The factory employs 120 people who make between 3,000 and 4,000 footballs each day. “Every ball is made by hand,” says Dan Riegle, the Wilson factory manager. “It’s a craft.”
The biggest football game of the year is on February 4! We don’t know which teams are headed to the Super Bowl. But we do know one star of the show. The football!
The Wilson Football Factory makes the footballs used by the National Football League (NFL). The factory in Ada, Ohio, has made them since 1955. It employs 120 people. They make between 3,000 and 4,000 footballs each day. “Every ball is made by hand,” says Dan Riegle. He’s the Wilson factory manager. “It’s a craft,” he says.