@@ValensBellator no not the one I'm referring too. Those came after. The one I'm talking about was the size of a regular football, with spiral grooves on it and a Whistler on the side. Red and black split colors. Came out around 91' I think.
Nerf football was my first football I remember this one time my mom ran over my nerf ball with her car by accident and it was completely fine afterwards we could play in the house and in the bathtub and at the park. We appreciate you Fred. rest my brother.
The man that created the deepest ball our little arms could do. The deeper someone ran the longer the whistle would go. Those really helped kids perfect a tight spiral just to hear the ball.
I told him, "You're gonna have a lot of sore legged little kids running around." Haha, I'm glad he had the foresight to know that going lighter and softer was the way to go. Growing up my friends and I all had one and would take them everywhere. So many memories.
Thank you Fred Cox. You made my childhood recess sessions 1000x better than it ever would have been. I have memories of pick sixes against kids I hated and insane imaginary sideline grabs. Thank you man.
So apparently I have Fred Cox to thank for half of all the fun I had in my childhood...and about 90% of the times I got grounded. :-) Homework, shmomework. There's a game of NERF football that needs playing!
If we had rain and had recess inside, we'd play silent speed ball. Passing the ball around and if you dropped it you had to sit down til game was over. Also thank you for the vortex ball too!!
On any given Saturday afternoon back in the 70’s & early 80’s I would rush for 350 yards, score 15 TD’s(1 kickoff return, 4 rushing, 5 receiving, 3 throwing and 2 pick 6’s). I would also have 45 catches for 500 yards. I would have another 500 through the air, and another 200 kick return yards- we never punted and always went for it on 4th down no matter how far it was for a first. It was nothing to have over 1,500 all purpose yards on a Saturday. All with a NERF. It’s what made us IMMORTALS! AND THATS WHY WE LOVE THE GAME OF FOOTBALL!
A bike, a nerf football, a wiffle ball bat, a frisbee and a superball. That's all I needed. Perfect childhood. We kept taping the nerf up as chunks would get chewed off of it. Nerf footballs covered with ductape=awesome.
Since 91, he has receiving $200,000 a year in royalties until his death in 2019. Not a bad retirement. Rest in Peace Mr. Cox, you made us Minnesotans proud
I remember being a kid. Watching Ricky Williams on tv, and having my dad throw a nerf football to me in the house while he sat on the couch and I pretended I was in the nfl. I even put on some gloves (like winter gloves lol). Nerf was awesome.
The nerf football was my first touchdown pass ever. In middle school in P. E class, maybe a 20-25 yard throw. Ever since then, I've fallen in love with playing qb.
the best part about this is how every single one of the people they interviewed has a nerf anecdote to tell. from playing with them at the beach, which brother was better with a real football vs nerf, getting chewed up by the dog etc. this ball has had a profoundly positive affect on so many people and probably coming up on 100% of people in professional football. players, coaches, even the ball boys.
I remember as a kid I had a giants one and Steelers one. Me and my friends would play all day on Saturdays with those footballs in the front yard. Good times
You’re 10yrs old, it’s Sunday morning in the fall, you and your buds are just waking up from a sleepover filled with gta, Madden, and guitar hero. A mom makes you guys some breakfast, you all start watching a Sunday morning game together. Then halftime hits, you guys grab a nerf, run outside, and proceed to feel like an NFL player in your buddy’s front yard. It’s nerf or nothing, RIP Fred ❤️
When I was little, we'd always get the off-brand dollar store ones, but when our cousins/friends came with the nerf balls, I knew that there was something special to them. Never going to forget those fun times :)
I had many but I’ll never forget the weather blitz football. That commercial was so revolutionary and the other football where you could open it up and make plays with your finger. Good times!
Had no idea Fred invented that in my back yard. I grew up a die hard Vikings fan watched him every week. When the nerf came out our neighborhood group had one right away. It was the best because we played a lot in the winter and a regular ball was hard as a rock. It also floats for water sports. Thanks for the memories, Go Vikes!!!
I still remember the last Nerf football I had. It was a dark blue. It was worn out around the 'laces' and where I always grabbed it. It was kind of a light blue in those spots. That was 40+ years ago and I still remember it very vividly. I usually got at least one football for Christmas every year for well over a decade. I loved Nerf footballs! I had em in every different size, and color.
For sure ! For myself and the boys ín the sandlot , We all had óne or twó . I got one every Christmas and birthday . Thank you for the best tóy ever created ,
Inventions of that magnitude rarely go as smoothly for the inventor as it did for Fred Cox. I am glad it did, he deserves it (and so does his neighbor who sparked the idea).
I remember the ones that whistled,the light up ones and water ones. Those were awesome we used stick em in water buckets in the summer and play dodgeball with them.
So many memories of playing with nerf footballs in the house. Running down the hall after throwing a pass or kicking it around. R.I.P. Fred, you affected so many people and we’re all grateful.
My favorite was the one I got when I was around 10 I think and it was one of the ones from the series of NFL team logo ones so it had either a falcons logo or patriots logo since those are the two teams in our house we cheer for living in GA but my dad being from NE. Good memories. Definitely kept it away from the dog but he got into the backup foam football. Good memories.
My favorite was the whistler. My brothers, my friends and myself would play games of 500 for hours on end, just chucking the nerf ball as high and far as we could to get it to whistle the best.
It was a great invention taking a football making soft easy to throw also no worry about the ball getting deflated overtime plus you could beat the hell out of it and it would still be in good shape plus anyone could throw them plus you could use it for catching,punting and kicking as well.
My favorite football of all time was my Cleveland Browns nerf football lol and my friend had a bengals one so we’d have to take turns every other game. Nostalgia lol
I grew up kicking and throwing a nerf football . I used to dip it into water over night and let it dry up in two days . It would harden up and it would last longer . It wouldn’t fall apart or tear that easy . It could withstand playing a lot of football games . We would throw it instead of kicking off . I would throw it into the wind and get a good spiral and It would travel very far . I used to think I was Dan fouts . Man would fun days ! Thanks Fred Cox .
Wow! Never knew Fred Cox invented it. Killed a lot of time throwing these over in the sandbox. God bless you Fred. RIP...Viking legend. You, and Mark Mosely, the last two straight on kickers.
NERF - Never Ending Recreational Fun
Edit: Thank you @NFL Films for the love and thank you Fred Cox for the memories!
Nice
Ngl.
🤯
500th like
until the dog eats it
Jerry rice: nice invention
Barry sanders: I remember this
Chris colinsworth: I love this toy
Deion sanders: B O Y L E T M E T E L L Y O U W H A T
xD
Lol
Hi
Im dying🤣🤣🤣🤣
Owen Shores speaks likes a grandad lol
I remember when they came out with one that would whistle, we thought it was the coolest thing ever, lol.
Oh yea I remember that.
I had one too
Those were awesome too lol, didn’t they have tails?
@@ValensBellator no not the one I'm referring too. Those came after. The one I'm talking about was the size of a regular football, with spiral grooves on it and a Whistler on the side. Red and black split colors. Came out around 91' I think.
The vortex has the tail! John Elways threw it 110 yards lol
Shoutout Mike Trico for actually knowing who that was lol
Football Time I know haha football IQ right there fr
He’s so quick even with the acronym too bad he doesn’t know what is or who he is. Sad.
And Sean Payton
Tirico*^
Not surprised Mile Terico would know that
Freddie Kitchens looks confused lol "A nerf what?...is that like a cake?"
I didn’t understand when he said, “ ie or y.” It sounded like , “i-yee or waw.”
😂😂😂
He sounded out of breath just sitting there.
Legend has it, when he was asked why he took the Cleveland job, Freddie replied:
"Because Ohio still got steakums, and I can't risk losing out."
The Nimble Ninja that’s literally what I was gonna say lol
Wiffle balls and Nerf footballs made kids into neighborhood Cy Young and MVP Quarterbacks when I was younger
Damon M foreal man as a kid we had field day and I threw that 60 yards and won first place. Great memories
Exactly Damon!!!
Same
No joke
Hall of fame quarterbacks and recivers with those things.
Nerf football was my first football I remember this one time my mom ran over my nerf ball with her car by accident and it was completely fine afterwards we could play in the house and in the bathtub and at the park. We appreciate you Fred. rest my brother.
Bathtub?
@@teamrevenge5390 heck yeah when it wasn't a truck or boat day I was playing football by myself in the bathtub
He passed?
@@andrewpolosky yep
@@andrewpolosky yeah unfortunately bro
I had a nerf football R.I.P. to him🕊
Dog? 🤔
Same
@neo robertson well, there’s a bird emoji...
@@eddyzow maybe a seagull took it at the beach
neo robertson I think he was talking about Fred cox who died 4 days before this was posted
I wanna hear Deion's top 5 toys.
Same
I want Deion to narrate children's books or do audio books with adlibs
"I could clutch this. I could grip this and rip this sucker." - John Gruden
Bet he dreams he could do that to Derrick Carr.
what a Gruden Grinder
RIP Fred Cox ... many happy memories of his Vikings career and of course the Nerf Football.
saleen367 stfu no rip
Survival I don’t care stfu no rip
Squidward Tentacles wtf
Terrell Brown R.I.P
Julian Marta dudes trynna act tough lol
Gotta thank this guy for making not just mine, but millions of boys and girls’ childhood a fun. RIP
Fred seems like such a genuinely good guy. Really sorry to hear him passing. RIP
He was a great kicker for a long time, I remember him well. Glad he had such success.
Should be in the hall of fame
RIP, ima go cop a nerf ball right now for my guy Fred, rest in paradise
One time when I was a kid I punted one of these in the house and it hit my mom right in the face. One of the most terrifying moments of my life
That's hilarious! I love it
Then when she wasnt looking you put something in her drink to calm her down.😂😂😂
The man that created the deepest ball our little arms could do. The deeper someone ran the longer the whistle would go. Those really helped kids perfect a tight spiral just to hear the ball.
You will never know how many lives you've changed. Rest in Peace, legend.
RIP to the legendary creator of the NERF football.
I told him, "You're gonna have a lot of sore legged little kids running around." Haha, I'm glad he had the foresight to know that going lighter and softer was the way to go. Growing up my friends and I all had one and would take them everywhere. So many memories.
Thank you Fred Cox. You made my childhood recess sessions 1000x better than it ever would have been. I have memories of pick sixes against kids I hated and insane imaginary sideline grabs. Thank you man.
RIP to a 🐐🙏
So apparently I have Fred Cox to thank for half of all the fun I had in my childhood...and about 90% of the times I got grounded. :-)
Homework, shmomework. There's a game of NERF football that needs playing!
I have seen a lot of these NFL mini docs, but never have I seen all the head coaches being this excited 😂😂
R.I.P. Fred Cox, the man who brought happiness by a foam football.
I didn't know he had passed and when I found this video I literally cried
RIP Freddie.
If we had rain and had recess inside, we'd play silent speed ball.
Passing the ball around and if you dropped it you had to sit down til game was over.
Also thank you for the vortex ball too!!
I bet Blair Walsh would have killed to have one of these lol
@Harry Engel yeah wasn't he like 8/8 from 50+
Thank you Fred! RIP!
He passed away 1 week ago. Rest easy 🙏
Thanks for posting in remembrance of a great dude who bought kids of the 70s and 80s a great toy.
On any given Saturday afternoon back in the 70’s & early 80’s I would rush for 350 yards, score 15 TD’s(1 kickoff return, 4 rushing, 5 receiving, 3 throwing and 2 pick 6’s). I would also have 45 catches for 500 yards. I would have another 500 through the air, and another 200 kick return yards- we never punted and always went for it on 4th down no matter how far it was for a first. It was nothing to have over 1,500 all purpose yards on a Saturday. All with a NERF. It’s what made us IMMORTALS! AND THATS WHY WE LOVE THE GAME OF FOOTBALL!
A nerf football was the last gift my uncle gave me before he passed away. I wish I still had it
R.I.P. Fred Cox
I'm 57 and remember Fred Cox as a good kicker and now inventing a toy I played with. RIP Mr. Cox
RIP Mr. Cox and thanks for the memories.
Thank you, Mr. Cox.
My condolences to your family.
A bike, a nerf football, a wiffle ball bat, a frisbee and a superball. That's all I needed. Perfect childhood. We kept taping the nerf up as chunks would get chewed off of it. Nerf footballs covered with ductape=awesome.
Since 91, he has receiving $200,000 a year in royalties until his death in 2019. Not a bad retirement. Rest in Peace Mr. Cox, you made us Minnesotans proud
Always had a bite out of them for some unknown reason
A true legend! Thank you Mr. Cox for all the childhood memories
I remember being a kid. Watching Ricky Williams on tv, and having my dad throw a nerf football to me in the house while he sat on the couch and I pretended I was in the nfl. I even put on some gloves (like winter gloves lol). Nerf was awesome.
Gruden the John Daly of HC's just used the phrase "Grip it and rip it."
I can die happy
I always had the orange one with the black laces and tips. I kind of want another now
The nerf football was my first touchdown pass ever. In middle school in P. E class, maybe a 20-25 yard throw. Ever since then, I've fallen in love with playing qb.
Rip, to him he was a legend.
the best part about this is how every single one of the people they interviewed has a nerf anecdote to tell. from playing with them at the beach, which brother was better with a real football vs nerf, getting chewed up by the dog etc. this ball has had a profoundly positive affect on so many people and probably coming up on 100% of people in professional football. players, coaches, even the ball boys.
R.I.P. Mr. Cox. Thanks for your invention. Skol!
I remember having one that was black with rubber “spikes” on both sides of the laces. Miss it
The spiral model came out when I was a kid. I got one for Christmas and felt sooo cool
Legend.
I remember as a kid I had a giants one and Steelers one. Me and my friends would play all day on Saturdays with those footballs in the front yard. Good times
Fred Cox nailed kicks turned around and sat tf back down... Legend
this legend made my childhood so much fun. thank you 🐐👑
Greatest Christmas gift when I was a kid.
You’re 10yrs old, it’s Sunday morning in the fall, you and your buds are just waking up from a sleepover filled with gta, Madden, and guitar hero. A mom makes you guys some breakfast, you all start watching a Sunday morning game together. Then halftime hits, you guys grab a nerf, run outside, and proceed to feel like an NFL player in your buddy’s front yard. It’s nerf or nothing, RIP Fred ❤️
When I was little, we'd always get the off-brand dollar store ones, but when our cousins/friends came with the nerf balls, I knew that there was something special to them. Never going to forget those fun times :)
Thank you Mr. Cox for giving kids of all ages the greatest toy of all time. RIP, I'm sure you'll be invited to many NERF pick up games in heaven.
I had that orange and black one, RIP to a man that started my love for the game with throwing NERF footballs around. SKOL VIkes baby
Damn that's amazing. We all grew up tossing those things around
I had many but I’ll never forget the weather blitz football. That commercial was so revolutionary and the other football where you could open it up and make plays with your finger. Good times!
Just about every kid was lucky enough to have one of these rip sir.
what a humble man. Fred the goat
RIP..wish I had seen this long before Mr. Cox passed away...
Thank You Fred Cox 🙏🏽
Had no idea Fred invented that in my back yard. I grew up a die hard Vikings fan watched him every week. When the nerf came out our neighborhood group had one right away.
It was the best because we played a lot in the winter and a regular ball was hard as a rock. It also floats for water sports.
Thanks for the memories, Go Vikes!!!
Let's go VIKINGS , I'm gona go get me a couple of them nerf football's in his memory !!
I still remember the last Nerf football I had. It was a dark blue. It was worn out around the 'laces' and where I always grabbed it. It was kind of a light blue in those spots. That was 40+ years ago and I still remember it very vividly.
I usually got at least one football for Christmas every year for well over a decade.
I loved Nerf footballs! I had em in every different size, and color.
Man dad always said
"Want to NEVER have to work again? Invent something!"
Even on my 8th grade field trip we had one of these we had a blast
For sure !
For myself and the boys ín the sandlot ,
We all had óne or twó .
I got one every Christmas and birthday .
Thank you for the best tóy ever created ,
Inventions of that magnitude rarely go as smoothly for the inventor as it did for Fred Cox. I am glad it did, he deserves it (and so does his neighbor who sparked the idea).
Who would of thought nerf came straight out from MN. What a legend. Use to own a couple back in my child hood. 💯
AMAZING.....Never knew it was Fred Cox!
Had the purple one Fred is holding, the original ball. Wish I still did!
Fred Cox was one of my close friends grandfathers. I feel really bad for him :(
I remember the ones that whistled,the light up ones and water ones. Those were awesome we used stick em in water buckets in the summer and play dodgeball with them.
Born and raised a Viking fan. Loved Freddy the Foot
Rip Fred Cox I cant believe ur gone
Love this old man
such a pure guy
R.I.P.
R.I.P Fred cox you are a legend😢
That is so legit! Awesome documentary NFL Films!
Thank you sir for making my childhood fun ❤️
I grew up in Minnesota and remember getting his autograph as a kid.
Legend has it Parker Brothers encourages families around the world to own a dog.
So many memories of playing with nerf footballs in the house. Running down the hall after throwing a pass or kicking it around. R.I.P. Fred, you affected so many people and we’re all grateful.
Such great memories playing Backyard football with Netf football's.. I still got a few
My favorite was the one I got when I was around 10 I think and it was one of the ones from the series of NFL team logo ones so it had either a falcons logo or patriots logo since those are the two teams in our house we cheer for living in GA but my dad being from NE. Good memories. Definitely kept it away from the dog but he got into the backup foam football. Good memories.
Super Bowl LI in your house must have been fun.
Early 90s all i wanted for Christmas was a Turbo Football!
RIP Freddie
My favorite was the whistler. My brothers, my friends and myself would play games of 500 for hours on end, just chucking the nerf ball as high and far as we could to get it to whistle the best.
Recess football was the greatest time of my life!
He was my great grandpas roommate in college at Pitt when my grandpa played basketball there he sent him a original model when he invented it
what a great piece of history to share...thank you...
It was a great invention taking a football making soft easy to throw also no worry about the ball getting deflated overtime plus you could beat the hell out of it and it would still be in good shape plus anyone could throw them plus you could use it for catching,punting and kicking as well.
My favorite football of all time was my Cleveland Browns nerf football lol and my friend had a bengals one so we’d have to take turns every other game. Nostalgia lol
I grew up kicking and throwing a nerf football . I used to dip it into water over night and let it dry up in two days . It would harden up and it would last longer . It wouldn’t fall apart or tear that easy . It could withstand playing a lot of football games . We would throw it instead of kicking off . I would throw it into the wind and get a good spiral and
It would travel very far . I used to think I was Dan fouts . Man would fun days ! Thanks Fred Cox .
Rip to the legend we will never forget him he’s the all time best kicker
Wow! Never knew Fred Cox invented it. Killed a lot of time throwing these over in the sandbox. God bless you Fred. RIP...Viking legend. You, and Mark Mosely, the last two straight on kickers.
Rest in piece Fred