You can't hurt babies or old people." It all started with a simple foam ball, but the addition of the NERF football changed everything. Minnesota Vikings kicker Fred Cox invented and introduced ...

And, just as likely, the ball they will be tossing around during that championship matchup will be made of foam. Introduced in 1972, the Nerf football has been a mainstay of gridiron challenges ...

Hasbro has found another intriguing way to take back possession of its Nerf brand ... that contains smart foam pads. Originally designed by Utah’s XO-Nano to measure football helmet impacts ...

It is so easy to throw and catch. I also liked the Nerf Turbo Jr. Football. It is about the size of a regular football, but it is light and made of a foam material, so it is squishy and doesn't ...

The Nerf football actually represented a bit of a technical change for the product line. Parker Brothers made the original Nerf balls by spinning foam on a lathe and cutting it with a piece of hot ...

Nerf has long shifted its focus to dart guns ("blasters") away from its classic products like foam footballs – and they've put out some great products along the way. With their fall line ...

and footballs, then moving into the category that is its biggest seller today, blasters that shoot foam darts and balls. “Nerf became a brand that’s bigger than a blaster and bigger than a ...

He was invited back for a tryout in 1963. Cox invented the Nerf Football in 1972. The foam-filled football helped “young people everywhere to play with a soft and safe ball that behaves similar ...

Fred Cox figured he spent about 10 minutes developing the essential concepts behind the Nerf football. Nearly 50 years later, he was still receiving annual royalty checks of more than $200,000 for ...

Who else had a NERF football? And with that, the NERF (which stands for Non Expanding Recreational Foam) football was born. Since that time, NERF footballs have become the best selling football of ...