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Pigskin Roundup
Pigskin may refer to: * Ball (gridiron football) In Canada and the United States, a football (also called a pigskin) is a ball, roughly in the form of a prolate spheroid, used in the context of playing gridiron football. Footballs are often made of cowhide leather, as such a material is require ... (also a pigskin), a ball, roughly in the form of a prolate spheroid, used in the context of playing gridiron football * ''Pigskin'' (video game), a 1979 video game by Acorn Software Products for the TRS-80 * '' Pigskin 621 A.D.'', an arcade game released in 1990 by Midway Manufacturing * "Pigskin", the sixth song from the 2013 Hollywood Undead album ''Notes from the Underground'' {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ball (gridiron Football)
In Canada and the United States, a football (also called a pigskin) is a ball, roughly in the form of a prolate spheroid, used in the context of playing gridiron football. Footballs are often made of cowhide leather, as such a material is required in professional and collegiate football. Footballs used in recreation, and in organized youth leagues, may be made of rubber, plastic or composite leather (high school football rule books still allow inexpensive all-rubber footballs, though they are less common than leather). History Early balls In the 1860s, manufactured inflatable balls were introduced through the innovations of English shoemaker Richard Lindon. These were much more regular in shape than the handmade balls of earlier times, making kicking and carrying easier. These early footballs were plum-shaped. Some teams used to have white footballs for purposes of night practice. The football changed in 1934, with a rule change that tapered the ball at the ends more and redu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigskin (video Game)
''Pigskin'' is a 1979 video game by Acorn Software Products for the TRS-80 Model I Level II. Plot summary ''Pigskin'' is a football game with ten offensive plays and six defensive plays, and a player can either play against the computer opponent or another human opponent. In single-player mode there are five levels of difficulty. Reception J. Mishcon reviewed ''Pigskin'' in ''The Space Gamer ''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the la ...'' No. 30. Mishcon commented that "A super game for kids who will love plenty of scoring but probably not the answer for a real lover of football." References 1979 video games TRS-80 games TRS-80-only games American football video games Video games developed in the United States {{Amfoot-videogame-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigskin 621 A
Pigskin may refer to: * Ball (gridiron football) In Canada and the United States, a football (also called a pigskin) is a ball, roughly in the form of a prolate spheroid, used in the context of playing gridiron football. Footballs are often made of cowhide leather, as such a material is require ... (also a pigskin), a ball, roughly in the form of a prolate spheroid, used in the context of playing gridiron football * ''Pigskin'' (video game), a 1979 video game by Acorn Software Products for the TRS-80 * '' Pigskin 621 A.D.'', an arcade game released in 1990 by Midway Manufacturing * "Pigskin", the sixth song from the 2013 Hollywood Undead album ''Notes from the Underground'' {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
