BALL

[shrimpnsave]

Does the new ball have a secret engine inside so it can go where it wants



or is it full of puff...

[outsider]

It's too round

[George Dawes]

well talking about Adidas and these footballs



just incase you never knew, its intresting this i was told of this story a few years ago about the Three Stripes vs Puma story

The creators of Adidas and Puma were brothers...and Nazis.

Adolf "Adi" Dassler started and Rudolph "Rudi" Dassler started a line of sports shoes in Germany in 1924. They both joined the Nazi Party when Hitler rose to power. Rudi was drafted to fight in WWII and was captured by Allied forces. American soldiers suspected him of being a member of the SS (Hitler's paramilitary force), and Rudi was convinced that his brother, Adi, had ratted him out.

Due to irreconcilable differences between the two brothers the Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory fell apart in 1948. Adi went on to start his own line of shoes, "Adidas" (based on his name, Adi Dassler). Rudi started his own line of shoes, "Puma", named after the German word for "Panther".

-> http://www.omg-facts.com/view/Facts/2915

there is other links out there going into more detail about the story it's a very interesting read and theres still people who still live in there home town today who work for Puma & Adidas in the rival factory's and employee's have been known to have been sacked for socializing with rival workers


this link goes more into detail --> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/08/busin ... SHOES.html

[Keith]

didn't one of them have a son called Robert?

















He was also known as Bobby Dassler.

[scar]

There's a Taxi outside waiting for someone by the name of Fitton.........