The league is putting a leather ball with synthetic laces into play for Week 2 of the preseason and according to NFL Network's Albert Breer, "a number of active, Pro Bowl-caliber quarterbacks ...

How the NFL Football Got Its Shape. News. By Dan Peterson published 8 September 2010 ... Later versions covered them in a leather skin, stitched together by laces.

Creative Extrusion & Technologies is a Brockton-based manufacturer dating back to 1952 that has made the laces for every NFL football for the past three decades.