Tyler Gibson carries a tote full of turned, non-inflated footballs to the quality control area to be inspected at the Wilson Football Factory in Ada, Ohio.
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Wilson Sporting Goods said around 120 footballs will be used in Super Bowl LVII, WDTN reported.
All NFL footballs are made by hand in the Wilson Football Factory in Ada, Ohio.
Ada, Ohio has a population of 5,941, according to WDTN.
Around 120 footballs will be used in Super Bowl LVIIFootballs wait to be stamped with the opponents' names for Super Bowl XLVIII at the Wilson Sporting Goods football factory in Ada, Ohio.
NFL footballs are made by hand in the Wilson Sporting Goods factory just off Main Street in Ada, Ohio.Wilson Sporting Goods worker Michelle Burkett throws excess leather from the Horween Leather Co. factory after cutting quarter panels for an NFL football in Ada, Ohio.
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"I had a couple guys around, and I go, 'Can you believe we're standing in here, making the game balls for the Super Bowl right now?'" Wilson plant manager, Andy Wentling, told WDTN.
"There was 12 of us. Nobody else in the world is doing this, and we're in a little factory three blocks off Main Street."
Leather for NFL footballs is cut out by hand with football-shaped templates.Wilson Sporting Goods worker Loyd Conley cuts leather from the Horween Leather Co. factory into quarter panels for an NFL football in Ada, Ohio.
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Once, the oval-shaped leather panels are cut out, they are stamped with the Wilson logo by hand.Loretta Hicks stamps the Wilson logo into footballs at the Wilson Sporting Goods football factory in Ada, Ohio
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Footballs are constructed inside out, then steamed, and reversed with a steel bar, making the process one of the most physical jobs in the factory.Jim Gatchell turns an NFL Super Bowl LI football right side out at the Wilson Sporting Goods factory in Ada, Ohio. The ball is first placed into a container where it is steamed and then reversed with the use of a steel bar.
After the oval-shaped leather panels are attached, worker hand stitch laces onto the footballs.Adam, from the Wilson football factory in Ada, Ohio, laces a football.
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The Wilson Football Factory puts up an interactive experience at the Super Bowl where fans can see footballs being made.A miniature Wilson football factory is seen at the NFL Experience during a preview tour of Super Bowl 50 official fan attractions Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, in San Francisco.
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Fans can watch workers hand-stitch footballs and ask them questions about how they are constructed as part of the factory's NFL Experience booth.Lacer Barbara Gray laces a football at the Wilson football workshop in the Super Bowl Experience, the NFL's 'interactive football theme park,' ahead of Super Bowl LVI.
