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 ...

Annual sales of the Nerf football peaked at 8 million in 1979, but the toy continues to be a popular seller today. Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg via Getty Images Undoubtedly, Jimmy Garoppolo and ...

Eventually, the toy football became known as Nerf, and the rest is history ... frozen grass surface of Metropolitan Stadium when the weather turned cold. Named one of the 50 best Vikings of ...

After his football career, with the help of Minnesota entrepreneur John Mattox, he invented in 1971 the Nerf football, a foam rubber toy which is still popular today. He got the idea while a ...

Fred Cox, a former kicker for the Minnesota Vikings and inventor of the Nerf football, has died at age 80. The Vikings announced his death on its website, saying it happened Wednesday. The ...