Trivia About the Leading Sports Manufacturing Brands

Every time we go to a sports shop for a football boots purchase we think of the materials, the features, the price, and the brand. Over the years there has been a significant increase in the number of football equipments specifically the football foot gears. Needless to say, there are brands that still stand high among the rest. These brands have already established their name in the sports industry that marketing only plays a small role in their ever growing profit. Here are some trivia about the major players in the sports equipment manufacturing industry.

Adidas, a German-based sports apparel manufacturer that specialises in sports footwear like football boots, bags, shirts, watches, eyewear, and other sports and clothing related goods is the second biggest sportswear manufacturer in the world. Adidas' revenue for 2009 was listed at €10.38 billion and 2008 €10.80 billion. Many thought that Adidas is an acronym for "All Day I Dream About Soccer" but is actually formed from "Adi" a nickname for Adolf, and "Das" from "Dassler". Adolf Dassler is the founder of Adidas and registered the company on August 18, 1949.

Puma, another global brand known for their football boots originated in Germany. There are more things in common between Adidas and Puma aside from the range of products they manufacture. Their founders are actually brothers who used to work together in producing sports footwear. They established a company together producing and selling the same. In 1948, the brothers split their business because of a growing rift between the brothers. The original name of Puma is Ruda - from "Ru" in Rudolf and "Da" in Dassler.

Nike is the world's top manufacturer and supplier of athletic shoes like football boots, sports apparel, and sports equipment. The original name of the brand was Blue Ribbon Sports and was founded on January 25, 1964. It officially became Nike in 1978 and was named after the Greek goddess of Victory. The brand is famous for its slogan "Just do it" and its Swoosh logo. The founders of Nike were a track athlete and his coach - Philip Knight and Bill Bowerman respectively.

Another strong competitor among the sports apparel global brand is Asics. Their footwear is ranked among the best in the world. Asics is actually the acronym of the Latin phrase "anima sana in corpore sano" which translates to "a healthy soul in a healthy body" or "a sound mind in a sound body". The company was established on September 1, 1949 under the name panmure Co., Ltd by the founder Kihachiro Onitsuka.

It's actually a good thing that these manufacturers come face to face with their best products. It is in such way that we get to have the best football boots any football player could ever dream of.

Informative NFL Trivia

NFL History

The National Football League or more popularly known as the NFL is the biggest professional American Football league. It originally was formed in 1920 as was called the American Professional Football Association which was later changed to the American Professional Football League a year after. Its name was changed yet again to its current name a year after that. The league started with a mere 11 members but has evolved to 32 teams divided into 2 conferences with 16 teams each. This in turn has resulted in a flood of NFL merchandise available such as mini NFL helmets. The long history of the league has thus resulted in some amusing and interesting NFL trivia.

NFL popularity
American Football has been the most popular sport in the US since 1965. The NFL has the largest per-game attendance of any domestic professional sports league in the world, pulling over 67,000 spectators per game for every one of its two most recently completed seasons, 2006 and 2007. However, the National Football League's overall attendance is only about 20% of that of Major League Baseball, due to MLB's 162 game schedule.

In a sports poll completed in 2008, the NFL was the favorite sport of almost as many people (30 percent) as the combined total of the next four professional sports - baseball (15 percent), auto racing (10 percent), hockey (5 %) and men's pro basketball (4 percent). In addition, Football's American TV viewership numbers now surpass those of other sports. In addition, independent studies suggest that the average global viewership is just over 100 million, with the vast majority of whom are U.S. viewers.

The NFL logo
The old NFL logo with 25 stars was used between 1970 and 2008. It was replaced with a new logo, which contains 4 stars, for the 2008 season.

The Super Bowl Trophy
The trophy a team is given for winning the Super Bowl is called Vince Lombardi Trophy; Lombardi successfully the Packers to multiple NFL Championships in the 1960s.

NFL Players
Intriguingly, former Charger Defensive Lineman Ernie Ladd also managed a career in professional wrestling.

NFL Teams
The Green Bay Packers are not only the sole NFL team that is publicly owned by the community and fans. It is the only professional sports team in the United States with such a distinctive ownership arrangement. The Packers had the honor of winning the first two Super Bowls ever played, although at the time they were not yet referred to as Super Bowls. The

Berg Payne is an avid sports fan on the verge of being a fanatic. When he is not at the game, he can be found meticulously going through his vast collection of NFL merchandise which makes up for just a fraction of his popular sports memorabilia collection.