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No, no, no...

What you really need to do, is go out and get yourself some tanks of Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide.

Then fill the ball with about 80% nitrogen, with oxygen comprising most of what's left, and then the CO[sub]2[/sub].

If you really want to be precise, you should get a bunch of other trace gasses in there too. Not sure where you could get the right mixture though...
 
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FindlayBucks said:
I had this same problem once....undo some of the stitches and put in a bunch of lead fishing weights (the big, old school ones) until you get up to about 9 pounds. It says to go up to 12, but that sonofabitch will hurt like hell trying to punt it with any more weight in it.
Don't forget to stitch it back up, I almost lost an eye when one of the weights came flying out when I was catching the ball.
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That's just stupid. You can't throw a spiral with all that weight shifting around. There's only one real way to fill it to 12 pounds. The volume of a youth sized football is approximately 590 cubic inches. Water weight for that amount of volume is around 21 pounds. Too heavy. The weight for gasoline is about 0.74 that of water weight. Close enough. Now, you fill the ball with exactly 12 lbs of gasoline. That will still leave you with some sloshing around, and will still make the ball fly like crap. In order to distribute the weight evenly, you must heat the gasoline until all the weight is distributed evenly. Note: Do NOT try to heat up the gasoline before placing it in the ball, that would just be ridiculous.
 
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I was reading this article inthe Sports Magazine the other day and saw an advertisment for just what you need. It seems that they now make premium air, you can get it at the local oil change place. They inflate tires to 35 pounds, so it shouldn't be any problem getting a football to 12.
 
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That's heavier isn't it? I mean, it's liquid afterall, and air is.. well.. air.
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I looked it up in Wikipedia. Air is a gas.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I tried the gasoline approach - but had to get a new football and darn near a new grandson.

Finally settled on whipping cream. Worked great indoors, but as soon as we went outside in this heat the spiral went to hell.
 
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This reminds me of a prank some guys played on a kid many years ago. This high school kid worked in the kitchen of one of the local bar/restaurants. One day a few of the bar patrons were sitting there, bull shitting about whatever. The kid came out and asked the bartender if he could leave early that day, something about his car needing an oil change. The guys overheard the kid and one of them asked how long it'd been since he changed the air in his tires. Having never heard of such a thing, a blank stare was all he returned. The rest of the guys took the ball and ran with it from there, telling the kid that his tires would last a lot longer if he periodically deflated them and then re-filled them. They even got him believing that he should use a hand pump to re-fill them, since everyone knows they make better air. Well, the kid left, rode his moped home (he lived 4 or 5 miles outside of town). No one saw him for a few hours, but when his dad got home, he was out in the driveway, still pumping the first of four flat tires.......
 
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AJHawkfan said:
This reminds me of a prank some guys played on a kid many years ago. This high school kid worked in the kitchen of one of the local bar/restaurants. One day a few of the bar patrons were sitting there, bull shitting about whatever. The kid came out and asked the bartender if he could leave early that day, something about his car needing an oil change. The guys overheard the kid and one of them asked how long it'd been since he changed the air in his tires. Having never heard of such a thing, a blank stare was all he returned. The rest of the guys took the ball and ran with it from there, telling the kid that his tires would last a lot longer if he periodically deflated them and then re-filled them. They even got him believing that he should use a hand pump to re-fill them, since everyone knows they make better air. Well, the kid left, rode his moped home (he lived 4 or 5 miles outside of town). No one saw him for a few hours, but when his dad got home, he was out in the driveway, still pumping the first of four flat tires.......
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:lol:

in high school there was a girl we would get to beleive all kinds of stuff about her car... we told her that she needed to put summer air in her tires and take the winter air out. We would also have her check the blinker fluid and muffler bearings as well.
 
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Now I'm really ticked!

I just went to Kroger to do a propane exchange for my barbecue grill. They tried to give me a tank that was heavier than the one I took in. If it is full of gas it should be lighter, right?

Freakin morons.
 
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