#Football Factory

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On doit être comme les n*, d’une certaine façon. Des n* blancs. Des Blancs pauvres. De la merde blanche. Nous sommes une minorité, nous sommes soudés. Peu nombreux. Fidèles, loyaux. Le foot nous donne quelque chose en plus. La haine, la peur nous rendent différents. Et on est issus de la majorité silencieuse, ce qui fait que les connards qui nous dirigent n’arrivent pas à nous repérer. Nous partageons la plupart des idées de la masse, mais nous les avons adaptées pour nous. Nous portons un peu de tout cela en nous, sans étiquette. Nous sommes haïs des riches, et intolérables aux socialistes qui se la jouent charitable. Nous menons notre vie, nous n’avons pas besoin d'aide sociale.

Football Factory (1996), John King

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Melotober - Day 13 - Stones + Gems

What's with all the rocks..? I don't want to talk about it.

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Untitled by Benedetta Falugi

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55. Futball Faktor – Nick Love (2004)

Máté: "A legjobb film a futballhuliganizmusról. A Huligánok c. film Frodóval szerintem szintúgy élvezhető, de ez a film a karakterek tényleges motivációit, és a huligánok szociológiai sajátosságait sokkal jobban bemutatja."

Nem tudom ez a film mennyire mutatja be valóságosan a futballhuliganizmust, gyanítom, hogy azért nem teljesen, mivel pl. focit egy másodpercig nem néz benne senki, kb. csak az érdekel mindenkit mikor és kivel lehet legközelebb bunyózni "foci" címén, ami amúgy engem a sok trágársággal és erőszakosággal együtt nagyon lehozott most az életről. Tipikusan olyan emberekről szól ez a film, akikkel sose akarok találkozni és bár a végén megvolt a lehetőség egy pozitív(abb) befejezésre (aminek nagyon drukkoltam), ez sajnos elmaradt.

imdb link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385705/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_futball%2520fak

Következő kedvenc film: 54. Capote

[sendpseuds]

yesterday was searching through terrible penis euphemisms and today it's the worst ways to refer to a blow job

lockerroom talk is gross and hilarious

[smandmoree]

Happy birthday to the following: Carlo Ancelotti (Football manager - Real Madrid); Pol Espargaro (MotoGP rider); and Rafael Leao (football player)! 🎉🥳🎂🎁

May you be respectively gifted with life’s biggest joys and never-ending bliss. Wishing both of you a wonderful time ahead.

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Unleashing the Extraordinary: 20 Captivating Party Styles and Occasions

Introduction: Get ready to unleash your inner party animal as we descend into the realm of celebration and merriment! In this blog post, we’ll explore 20 extraordinary party styles and occasions that will ignite your imagination and surprise your guests. From wild and adventurous themes to elegant and sophisticated affairs, prepare for an unforgettable journey through the world of parties that…

[footballmanageraddict]

Wonderkid Factory | Part 16 | The Jürgen Klopp Park Era Begins

#FM24 #WonderkidFactory Part 16: The Jürgen Klopp Park Era Begins. Exciting times at #Mainz05 as the club moves into a brand new stadium, defends its maiden #Bundesliga title and gets its first taste of the #ChampionsLeague. Read here:

The small city of Mainz, on the outskirts of Frankfurt in western Germany, wasn’t accustomed to throwing huge parties. But you wouldn’t have known it as seemingly the entirety of its 220,000 population took to the streets to celebrate their heroes lifting 1. FSV Mainz’s maiden Bundesliga title in 2038. The city’s streets flowed with Pilsner and the parties went on for what felt like weeks. The…

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Origin Story of The Big Game Football

This weekend is The Big Game. If you are a football fan you are well aware that the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles will kick off at 6:30 pm on Sunday, February 9th and all eyes will be on the field. If you are not a football fan, you might be a fan of the commercials that make their debut during the game. Either way, the entire game will be one that will be the highlight of the…

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The Football Factory (2004) Movie Review

The Football Factory – Movie Review Director: Nick Love Writer: John King, Nick Love (Screenplay) Cast Danny Dyer (Outlaw) Frank Harper (Silent Night) Tamer Hassan (The Double) Roland Manookian (His House) Neil Maskell (The Kill List) Dudley Sutton (Cockneys vs Zombies) Plot: An insight on the gritty life of a bored male, Chelsea football hooligan who lives for violence, sex, drugs &…

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Sherrin football factory c1950

[aboudalhaj]

Help My Family Escape the Devastation in Gaza

🚨Urgent Appeal 🚨

I am Abdullah Al-Hajj, 25 years old. I graduated from high school with big dreams of earning a university degree, but life took a different turn. Due to the difficult circumstances we faced, I couldn’t pursue my academic aspirations. Instead, I joined my brother in the field of chemical manufacturing, and I quickly learned the craft. It became the primary source of income for our family. Through this work, I was able to get married and start building my own life.

But everything changed when the war broke out in Gaza. The relentless bombings destroyed not just our workplace, but also every hope and dream we had built. The factory that had provided for our family was reduced to rubble. I found myself struggling to provide for even the most basic necessities—food, water, and medical care for my pregnant wife, who is expecting our first child.

As the war intensified and the destruction spread to our neighborhood, we were forced to flee to a safer area. We found shelter in a makeshift tent, which barely protected us from the scorching summer heat or the bitter winter cold. Life in the tent has been harsh, and survival has become a daily struggle.

My younger brother, Bilal Al-Hajj, always had big dreams. From a young age, he aspired to become a professional football player. Recently, Bilal graduated from high school and enrolled in university, determined to balance his education with his passion for football. His dream was to play for one of the major football clubs, a goal he had worked tirelessly toward for years.

But the war shattered Bilal’s dreams as well. The harsh realities of our situation—the struggle for food, water, and basic medical care—have made it impossible for him to chase his passion. The war has not only destroyed homes and buildings but also ambitions, hopes, and the future we once envisioned.

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Wilson worker Lindsey Kiene cuts leaf-shaped panels that are tapered at both ends. These will be sewn together to make the iconic oblong shape of the football, a key feature that reduces the ball’s wake and drag.

Step Inside The Factory Where The NFL’s Footballs 🏈 🏈 🏈 Are Made

Few Have Seen Inside Wilson’s Facility where Dozens of Expert Craftspeople Meticulously Put Together a Product Whose Design Hasn’t Changed For About a Century.

— By Terry Ward | Photographs By Christopher Payne | February 9, 2024

What’s more American than cheering as your football team sends a long bomb tightly spiraling toward its end zone target? It’s a tradition that stretches back to the late 19th century.

While today’s “pigskin” is no longer made with the pig’s bladder of football’s late-1800s origins (all pro and collegiate footballs are now constructed from cowhide leather with synthetic rubber interiors), the shape and dimensions of the NFL football have remained the same for roughly 100 years.

Sewn Footballs are sent down this conveyor to the lacing department at the Wilson factory in Ada, Ohio.

Leather arrives every week from the Horween Leather Company in Chicago. The leather is stamped to give it a pebbly feel, and tiny W’s are embossed on the leather to ensure authenticity.

NFL and NFC names are stamped in foil on leather panels before being sewn together.

That the design from a century ago still perfectly suits the needs of today’s sport is a kind of “historical accident,” says Dr. Rabindra Mehta, chief of the experimental aero-physics branch at NASA Ames Research Center. “Compared to a baseball, a football is a more aerodynamic shape by design.”

Footballs are made from four individual panels of leather, leaf shaped and tapered at both ends, which are sewn together inside out. Next, the leather is steamed so that it becomes soft enough to turn right side out. An air bladder is then inserted and the football is laced together by hand.

A football’s shape is not actually a ball in the spherical sense of the word, but a prolate spheroid: oblong, with pointed ends that make it easier to grip. This shape and the way air flows around it helps the football to travel great distances.

The panels move to the stitchers, like Stephen Brownlow here, who sew the panels into halves and then sew the halves together with heavy brown polyester thread to make an inside-out football. Sewing them inside out makes the seam invisible and more durable.

Characteristics of the football’s surface–including the pebbling of the leather, the stitching of the panels, and the laces themselves–also allow airflow to stay attached longer and minimize drag, compared to something spherical like a baseball ⚾️.

Picture a baseball traveling right, with air traveling past, moving left—this would be what’s called laminar flow, where air travels in a regular, smooth path. In a controlled environment (like a wind tunnel) the airflow would go straight left until it meets the ball, where it bends around until it reaches the “far side” of the ball (this point is called the “apex”). Then the air returns to traveling straight left, past the ball, without touching that far side of the ball 🏀 ⚽️ .

When this happens, there’s a pressure difference between the front and back of the sphere which results in drag, the force that slows the ball down as it’s flying through the air. Golf ball manufacturers tackle this on spherical golf balls by dimpling the ball’s surface to help airflow stay attached longer, reducing drag, therefore letting the ball fly farther.

Keaton Miller, a turner, has the strenuous task of turning the ball right side out. To make the job easier, they use a steam box to loosen the leather and a pneumatic hammer to make the pointed ends more pliable before it is reversed forcibly by hand on a metal pole.

Left: The turner finishes by rolling the seams on the pole to flatten them out. An experienced turner can do this in about 30 seconds.

Right: These Wilson GST balls, the official ball of over 180 NCAA programs and 54 high school football state associations, are ready for lacing.

The thin layer of air on the ball’s surface is called a boundary layer, and a turbulent boundary layer creates turbulent flow—where a football’s design shines. Air meeting a football, with its textured surface and curved shape, would flow around the ball, staying attached longer to its surface than it can on a baseball’s. If the air is flowing left (and the ball is moving right) the air will move up, left, and down along the football’s bowed surface.

While the air may not hug a football’s curves all the way across, airflow does remain attached past its apex, resulting in a minimal wake and less drag. On a baseball, the air only makes a connection on half the ball, creating more of a wake and drag.

Drag can be “challenging to predict, particularly in odd-shaped objects like a football,” says Anette (Peko) Hosoi, Pappalardo professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Drag depends on the shape of the wake, which, in a football, can vary depending on such factors as its orientation through the air, the velocity at which its thrown, and surface roughness.

Left: Nicole Tedrow, a lacer, inserts a polypropylene bladder into the ball and pushes a nipple through a small hole so the ball can be inflated. The lacers use an awl to pull the laces through the holes and close up the football.

Right: The final step is molding. Nearly completed footballs are placed inside a pressurized chamber that molds them to the correct, uniform shape, removing any residual lumps, crinkles, or rough edges, and inflates them to their correct pressure at 12.5 – 13.5 Psi.

Density of the surrounding air–a function of air temperature–also affects the boundary layer of a football and in turn its aerodynamics, Hosoi says.

“Warm air is less dense than cold air. If the air is less dense, there is less drag, so footballs may fly further on warmer days,” she says, adding that the phenomenon has been well documented in baseball, which clocks more home runs during hot and humid weather than the contrary.

A tight, spiraled throw wobbling not at all is indeed a thing of beauty, no matter the weather around it.

”The axis of the spin is aligned with the direction the ball will go,” says Mehta, likening it to the way a bullet flies. ”That’s what the quarterbacks are really good at doing.”

Left: These are the actual footballs that will be used in Super Bowl LVIII. The official balls are waiting to be stamped with the winning team logos pending the outcome of the AFC and NFC Championships, and shipped out early so the teams will be able to practice with them.

Right: These cut brass dies were used to emboss the Super Bowl LV logo in 2020.

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funniest fact i live in the city (and sort of local area) where cadbury’s is from so my year 2 school trip was going to cadbury world 😋😋😋 7 year old me was so lucky