A football is banana shaped ball made of pigskin with stripes going down one side of the ball. These stripes are used as grips for the quarterback or the person throwing the ball. Football sort of has its own cultural diversity. When you think of football, you might picture blood, sweat, muddy fields, and guys knocking the crap out of each other. It is more than that though.
Football is a diverse group of athletes that love pain and glory at the same time.
A football symbolizes all of this for it represents what the men are fighting over because the team with the highest score wins. Around the game of football, a football is sort of a sacred object that is admired by most. When you think of a football, you think of power and control over your own destiny because if you can outscore the other team than you can be victorious. There are many different types of footballs. There are footballs used in flag football, grade school football, high school football, college football, and the NFL that are all different in size.