He notices his skin turning a browner shade but thinks it's because of the sun being so bright out. He runs onto the empty feild and starts up his practice on the tires and the tackle dummy. Each step he takes he notices his skin gets darker and more brown. After a couple of minutes he notices he's gotten a little bit rounder and as a feeling like he's lighter? He keeps going though, even as his equipment has started become loser. He looks down at his gloves as his hands seem to have come closer to his shoulders. In shock he looks at the rest of him but by then it's too late! He's only 4 ft. tall and still shrinking, his skin now a brown leather with little bumps! He starts to throw off his equipment, and finds most of it is already fallen off. His helmet falls to the ground and rolls toward the 50 yard line. He see's himself swelling up more and more, his limbs starting to shrink up into his body. For some reason as he shrinks he has this feeling that he's full of air, that he's not human anymore! In horror his hands and feet gently slip into his new leather body, as he see's the words inflate to 9 pounds appear on the side of his belly button right next to a black rubber hole! His horror continues as laces show on his side and what was his feet become a tip of a football with a white line across. His other side says nfl and the words wilson appear, as he feels his head grow to a point. His eyes start to dissapear and become bumps, as he wobbles there for a moment. His mind slowley erases as his insides become air, and for a moment he feels that he is at peace. That he was meant to be a football. Finally the wind blows gently and it makes him teder then fall and rock back and forth. As he lays there a shiny new leather ball the old man walks up and grabs him. "you are far better at football now, dear boy!" And walks him into the equipment room and places him with the other balls there. And as the football team runs in for practice the old man fades away. They pick him up and....