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At Ball of Champions LLC, we have been meticulously hand-painting officially commissioned limited edition “Game Balls” for Professional & Collegiate Football & Basketball for over two decades. We create gorgeous hand-painted trophy balls that both the Pros and Major Universities covet. We capture the “Essence of Sport” ie. World Championships, National Championships, Outstanding Individual Game Performances, Records, Milestone Achievements, and Hall of Fame Inductions. The "Real Deal"!
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It is a football presented to a player or a coach in recognition of an outstanding contribution to a victory.
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NBA “Game Balls” are awarded to NBA players for Records, Milestone Achievements, Recognition Awards (NBA MVP, NBA Finals MVP, Etc.), NBA World Championships, and Hall of Fame inductions.
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Yes, in addition to awarding an NFL player a "Game Ball" for outstanding play on the football field, NFL "Game Balls" are also awarded to Coaches, Players, and Teams to commemorate Super Bowl Championships, record performances, milestones, and other recognition awards such as being named league MVP. They are also presented to celebrate & commemorate induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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The tradition of awarding the "Game Ball" to a player, coach or team is over 100 years old and dates back to the earliest days of the 20th century. The oldest known "Game Ball" is from the historic Harvard vs. Yale football rivalry and dates all the way back to November 26th, 1903 when Yale defeated Harvard 16-0.
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Yes. Ball of Champions has overseen Official NFL Presentation "Game Balls" for over 2-decades.
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Yes. Official NFL "Game Balls" are naturally scarce due to the extremely low edition sizes. When you take into consideration there are tens of millions of NFL fans in comparison to the exceptionally small number of "Game Balls" in an edition, the true scarcity of the NFL "Game Ball" is put into perspective.
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Understand that it literately takes thousands of individual fine-tip brush strokes to complete 1 Official NFL "Game Ball".
When taken into consideration that roughly 10-12 "Game Balls" are awarded to NFL players across the league each week by various NFL Head Coaches it would be impossible to create & hand-paint more than a handful of balls in a limited edition due to intricate painting that each ball requires and the extraordinary amount of time it takes to produce 1 ball. Because of these factors only a precious few NFL "Game Balls" are created and owning one thus puts you, the fan, in a very exclusive club.
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Yes. Every Official NFL "Game Ball" comes with a Certificate of Authenticity that contains a detailed description of the "Game Ball" and the Certificate of Authenticity also displays the "Game Ball’s" exclusive limited edition number (Example: Limited Edition #1 of 12) which has been hand-painted onto on the Official NFL "Game Ball" itself.
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Due to the fact that the trophy game ball artwork is custom designed and hand-painted, the delivery window on an order can be anytime between 60 to 90 days. Once we have your trophy game ball ready to ship, it gets carefully packaged and shipped with a priority mailing service. We fully insure all of our packages and ask for a signature upon delivery. We charge a flat fee of $50 per item for shipping.
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All sales are final. Due to the nature of creating custom, hand-painted, limited-edition commemorative pieces combined with the extremely fluid monetary nature of the sports memorabilia market, we do not accept cancellations, returns or exchanges.
LIMITED EDITION FORMAT
Each officially commissioned game ball, helmet, or bat is meticulously hand-painted in a limited-edition format.
All of our art pieces come with a detailed Certificate of Authenticity which details the achievement, milestone or event being commemorated and contains the limited edition number that is hand-painted on the particular piece.
WE ARE THE REAL DEAL!
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CONCEPT
Awarding “The Game Ball” to an athlete for outstanding in-game performance has been a tradition in collegiate & professional football for over a century. The blood, the sweat, the tears from that grueling effort and performance is embodied in the “Game Ball” award. The achievement. The recognition. It is the link to that glorious day, that glorious moment. The link that lives on forever.
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LIMITED EDITION
Each officially commissioned football, basketball, football helmet and baseball bat is meticulously hand-painted in an extremely low-limited edition format with the limited edition number hand-painted directly on the particular piece.
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ONE OF A KIND
Each Presentation Trophy Ball, Football Helmet, and Baseball Bat is original hand-painted work (created) by a (highly trained) & officially sanctioned sports-artist. The finished work is accompanied by a comprehensive Certificate of Authenticity that details the event or achievement being commemorated and displays the unique limited edition number of the piece as well as the total edition size.
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TRUST
Ball of Champions LLC links fans directly to players and teams that they are passionate about and celebrates the triumph right alongside their favorite player or team.
Ball of Champions LLC takes the limited edition format very seriously and handles each and every limited edition trophy with transparency, honesty and integrity.
Full transparency is created around the entire process by presenting the limited edition number from the original work directly on the Certificate of Authenticity.