Football or pigskin?

hey Sal the football is often called pigskin but is it true that it is made out of pigskin how was it made and why great question Joe and the simple answer is that no current footballs are no way coming from a pig now the the word pigskin are the notion that the footballs are made out of pigskin does have some historical relevance if you go back far enough people did not have footballs like the way that we look at them today the easiest access to a ball that you could make is actually taking an animal bladder and inflating it up and playing with that and so this is what a cow bladder if you were to inflate it looks like and people would actually play rugby which is the predecessor of football with that inflated cow bladder or potentially a pig bladder well then they realize well they could make it even better they can still have this kind of inflatable balloon and you can imagine before we had rubber especially vulcanized rubber it was hard to have these nice inflatable things animal bladders were the easiest things that people found but I said okay maybe we could make this a little bit more durable if you take that that pig or that clap cow bladder and you were to inflate it up literally just like a balloon and then you were to cover it with some type of animal skin and that could could have been pig skin or it could have been leather so you cover it up you cover it up with some type of skin to make it a little bit more to make it a little bit stronger and then you would tie up you would so it at the seams but what gives its its its inflate ability is that animal bladder on the inside now once we get into the mid 1800s and of course we're in the midst of the Industrial Revolution we have good year and he comes up with vulcanized rubber and people realize well that's a much more reliable and and in some ways just just less shady way of creating it the inside the inside bladder for football so today footballs you literally have a rubber bladder that's the thing that when you blow air into it it expands so that is the rubber bladder and on the outside you have leather so on the outside of that football you have leather and then these seems that you see these are where the leather is sewn together but what keeps it airtight is that rubber bladder that is inside the ball and as you put air into it it expands and puts more and more pressure and fills out the leather but the reason why the leather doesn't collapse is once again it has that rubber bladder inside of it that is full of air so modern footballs neither the outside is the outside of made out of out of you could say leather so I guess cow skin and the inside is made up of a rubber bladder so no pigs are involved