Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Which company is the official supplier of footballs for the NFL?"
...The official football of the National Football League, is made by Wilson Sporting Goods. Since 1941 every point scored in the NFL has been with a Wilson football. The official football is called “The Duke”, named after Wellington Mara, the beloved New York Giants owner who started as a ballboy with the team in 1925. Back when Mara was a young boy taking in the game from the sidelines, the Giants players dubbed him "The Duke" and years later, the NFL game ball took on this nickname too. According to a history of “The Duke” by Wilson, the NFL first used the ball in 1941.
