in the 70s, Toys of the Seventies

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Commentor Name:	Bart Starski
Comments left:	Back in the 70s and early 80s in southeastern Wisconsin we had an intra-neighborhood Itza ball league. When there weren't enough folks for football, we played a made-up game called "Hit the Light" (the "light" being an ordinary streetlight), which was sort of a hybrid sport between between golf, horse, and dodgeball. As I recall, the original Itza ball was pink and very rubbery. It's wasn't particularly tacky. It was easy to grip and easy to throw because it had dimples, it was relatively small, but because of the rubber it had some weight that enabled it to fly straighter in the wind relative to the vastly inferior Nerf football. On the other hand, if you got hit in the face with a bullet spiral thrown from point blank range or any time when the weather was approaching freezing, you would be very sad indeed! And that happened occasionally, sometime intentionally, sometimes not ... Although it lasted a long time, at some point our original Itza ceased to be. We soon discovered that it could not be replaced (this was back in the late 70s or early 80s). The "new" Itza footballs produced at that time time were a hybrid between the original Itza (inflatable rubber) and Nerf, with a "softer" outer texture and a lighter weight overall. Definitely not as nice. I'm guessing these are similar to the "G2 Pro" balls discussed above ...
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