Depends if you mean football or football ? Because if you mean actual football then yeah it would get fucked up , but American style fake football it MIGHT be ok as long as nobody fumbled it and then stepped on it . Either way I would suggest that nobody tries this <| sep |> I agree . Sometimes I feel like the word exploitation is used by certain vegans to mean any use of an animal . It takes away from our message when we say it ' s wrong to use an animal without harming it at all . E . g . I have no issue with people eating a backyard hen ' s eggs assuming the hen was acquired separately from the industrial , chickculling industry , and the hen won ' t be killed when production drops . Sure , hens naturally eat their own unfertilized eggs for extra nutrition , but as far as I know , her health won ' t actually drop from not eating her own eggs , and as long as she ' s taken well care of , I see nothing wrong with it .