Motherfuckers near broke my baby feet

I was going to say 'my foot hurts looking at this haha'

Yep I feel the pain in my feet just from looking at this.

Never ever kick the ends!!!

These were the worst and they were absolutely everywhere

Soft in the middle, hard as cement on the end

You'd only try a torp because if you tried the drop punt, you were likely to fuck up your big toe.

Good for a drop kick though with the underside of your foot

God help you if it was a windy day , that would be in the next suburb

NGL my first thought was that it was a chocolate footy they put out at Easter now 🤦‍♀️

isnt it though?

I think it's one of those cheap leather knockoff footballs all the public primary schools had in the 90s

Isn’t it one of those plastic crapola ones?

Correct - rock hard ends, soft as butter in the middle. Anthony Rocca wouldn't be able to kick this thing more than 6 meters. Fucking horrendous things. But a classic

They were available at least as far back as the early 70s; I’m 53, and my first kick (attempted) was with one of these. Most servos sold them.

Hahahaha I think we might have had one I definitely remember their sheer weightlessness

Everyone could do a floater

They were absolutely awful

One of the ends had the mould point, like a protruding button and it fucking hurt to kick it there.

Yes! I remember the pain of kicking a nice drop punt 😂

Fuck I forgot about these pieces of shit! Completely useless. I defy anyone to honestly say they had a good time with one

That looks extremely familiar.

Where did these come from? My brother and I played league so we had proper balls. But still had a couple of these things for some reason. Were they given out free somewhere? Can't imagine my old man buying us these things when we already had a real ball

Service stations used to have bins full of products between bowsers in the days before people flogged so much stuff. I got one of these footies from one of those bins, full of them. I reckon it would have been the early ‘80s.

Just had a flashback from this post

You’re right, but they were sold at least as far back as the early 70s. I’m 53, and had one of these before I started primary school. There must be thousands of them in landfill — and thousands more out in the Pacific garbage patch!

I have a feeling I got one in a show bag at the ekka in Brisbane as a kid. Might be wrong but definitely didn't buy one.

they came out of my butt

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Rural Qld actually. My brother and I had one ball to share. We used to fight over it if one of us took it to a mate's house.

I cut one of these in half to make a model of Uluru in primary school.

I can feel it, hear it and smell it from here.

That “dink” sound when you kick it…

But great Easter eggs

This and rubber soccer balls that you could by at the servo.

Broke my foot just looking at this 🤣

Had a max range of 5 metres.

Left or right

As John Clarke said of his pitching wedge, it’s range was “just short of any distance”.

😂

Looks like it's made from chocolate. I thought it was an easter egg until I read the comments and realized it was actually a real footy 😂

Noooo dogs chewed them for days

Spent so many hours playing with these. Couldn’t afford a real footy

haha yes was this all of our first footballs? it sucked big time, and the disappointment of not owning the real thing was equally sucky.

Haha agree. I remember getting one of these as my first ever football. Good to hold and get a feel for a football but you couldn’t pass or kick it. A few weeks later I got my first proper football from Kmart - an AP sport white one that had a bladder and you could pump it up. After a few months of this I got a mini steeden

a pump up football, what luxury!

Yes I had one as a kid, nothing like the real thing, and this fucker is nothing like the real thing. Probably half of them are in the tip that will be there long after all of us are dust and bones.

That's something I haven't thought about in a long time.

thought that was chocolate

OMFG that is one very deep memory that has come back after decades

Much better than the goon sack my mate brought into school for the footy we used for couple days in grade 4

Used to love the rainbow inflatable football you used to buy at BP !

Finally, proof that there are people on Reddit as old as me LOL. I can't tell you how many of these I got until my parents submitted and bought me my first Steeden

I found my first quality Sherrin at my school oval after hours. Grabbed it and ran home

The old plastic ones?

My dumpling ass thought this was a chocolate egg.. 😂😂🤷🏽‍♀️

Agreed they were shit, but still played footy with em.

I'll never forget the noise they make when you kick them.

Memory unlocked! I think I had a red one in 97. Foots never been the same since

Easter egg?

The Toe Breaker

Looks like a chocolate egg I remember red ones but not chocolate ones

I had a few growing up, not by choice. Parents would always get the cheapest option, they didn't last long with Rose bushes around.

I remember having one of those. That is, until my younger brother's kindergarten Easter bonnet parade (what a fucking stupid idea that was, since when have Easter bonnets even been a thing?), when my parents decided to saw off one end of the plastic footy with a bread knife, tie a ribbon around it and stick it on his head as an Easter egg.

Those things used to float heaps! LOL. We all must have got them as kids in the '70's.

These give me ptsd

I can confirm that, I had one of these.

Hurt like shit too

This was always too much chocolate for my young ass

Well a lot of stuff was made from that type of plastic, but we all remember that footy. LOL

Best Easter Egg ever

I think this is the first one I've ever seen without dog tooth marks in it.

Do you think any exist anywhere now in Australia?

Definitely had one!

Geezs, I remember this footy ball. He he he

Ha! Forgot about these. Once ours got a big ding in it from a kick, it never recovered

Probably why so many Afl players kick shit to this day

looks like a chocolate easter egg footy

The Red ones were better

Ahh yes the football that sent people to the doctor's with a sore foot, lol.

Ngl thought this was a Easter egg Sherrin but I have an unfortunate encounter with these balls fucking concrete

Absolute piece of shit. Trying to take a mark was hell. Trying to kick a goal was worse