Making the football

I followed the tutorial at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbzBq7vMm8M

I started by creating a hedra, and set the parameters to give me the football-like shape. I extruded all of the edges to give it shape, and used the tessellate tool so I could use spherify to make it rounded.

Finally, I used a meshsmooth modifier to create the football.