"You really should be thinking about something made out of foam rubber ... Recreational Foam) football was born. Since that time, NERF footballs have become the best selling football of ...

Cox liked the goalpost but not the dense football. He told Maddox, “You’re gonna have a bunch of sore-legged little kids. What you should look at is some kind of foam rubber.” The NERF ...

Of course, he's right, but Nerf footballs have been a staple of young football players for decades ... "I have no idea why foam rubber came to my mind." Good thing it did.

He and partner John Mattox, a local entrepreneur, took a mold of a full-sized football and injected it with soft foam rubber material. The result was the Nerf football. "The weight was right," Cox ...

Editor’s note: In 1997, Bob Fulton interviewed Fred Cox, the legendary kicker for the Minnesota Vikings, about the lasting success of his invention, the Nerf football. Fred Cox spent 15 ...

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 ...