an udder disgrace

[Guest guest]

From the regular size adult cow you can make 6½ footballs. It is a rule in the

NFL that the home team must provide 27 footballs for every home game. Using

those numbers you would need 4.15 cows for every home game to get enough

footballs. There are 31 teams in the NFL and they all play 8 home games during

the course of the season. That means there are 248 home games during the year.

If you take 248 and multiply it with 4.15 you should get the number of cows

needed, 1029.2. Yes, just over 1000 cows are needed to supply the NFL with

enough game balls every year. "

On the udder hand, at cowsarecool.com, a web site created by the People for the

Ethical Treatment of Animals, the largest animal rights organization in the

world, it's claimed that " it takes the leather of 3.8 steers to make the 72

footballs used in every... NFL SuperBowl; it takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL

with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. "

 

PETA does not explain how they arrived at that figure, and they appear to be

over-estimating the number of footballs needed by the NFL in a year. So, we have

to decide who knows more about how many footballs are needed - animal rights

activists or a sports writer?

 

Update: Eye-on-the-ball reader John Beamish reports the current rule requires

more cows. The home team must now provide 36 balls for outdoor games and 24 for

indoor games. So, assuming our udder formulas are still correct, the NFL is

supported by 2,480 cows. Which is a lot of cows.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Oh, man!! I never, ever thought of this.

 

I'm wondering why they need 8 a game, and hoping they can reuse the

unused ones! What a waste.

 

I'm disgusted!!

 

Please tell me soccer balls aren't made of cows...

 

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