Gaelic footballs look similar to that
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ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
⚽ is also an Adidas World Cup match ball.
The difference is that the design was streamlined and iconic enough to be timeless and become the football design in public mind.
Before the Telstar footballs looked like this:
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That said volleyball to me, but maybe there’s a size difference?
teft@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That’s cooled it’s named after the Telstar satellite. There’s a high school in Maine that’s also named after the satellite.
psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Wow, I had no idea! I just looked through the list of World Cup balls, and they only used that design, like, twice. But what an impact! I assume they had to get fancy afterwards because every ball started to look like that, so now it looked almost boring. Wild!