It was December 2016, in Los Angeles, my teenage daughter and I went to the local mall one morning as we did frequently during this time. The mall was open, but all of the stores inside were closed until 10 AM, except for a coffee place where we would have breakfast sometimes.
Sitting there in the empty mall, we started talking about how cool it would be to have a small football to throw around and how we could run pass patterns across the mall and over the open areas three floors below.
I was wearing a beanie, and my daughter had a hair tie, so I took off my beanie, bundled it up, and we used her hair tie to fashion it into a ball. After throwing it around for a while, we were sitting there talking and as we looked at the top of the beanie, the crisscross pattern of the stitching reminded us of the end of a football. That was the day BxB BeanieBall was born. We ran home and stapled together some material and created the first BxB football.
Fast forward a few years: we have added several key partners, including Edgar (Paco) Jiménez, who has been a key partner in the development of the soccer ball as well as many other ideas and prototypes. And also three time Pro Bowl NFL star Shawne Merriman as our official spokesperson. In addition, we have obtained a patent, trademark, and now have production model footballs available for sale.
We look forward to producing many other versions of our product as we grow our business.
-Michael
