Do football teams get to use their own footballs?

Each team supplies the footballs they use, although they are made by the same company and to NFL specification. Each team is responsible for inflation its own balls. And there are different balls for kick offs and field goals and Point-afterTouchdown.

In baseball, the home team provides the umpires with enough balls for the game; the umpires mud the balls before the game to make the baseball less slippery when throwing.

I believe in tennis the tournament provides the tennis balls.

Golfers use their own balls that meet USGA spec. Each golfer marks his ball, usually with a felt pen, to identify it.

Thanks. Do you know if it is theoretically possible to use the same baseball for the whole game, if nobody hits a homerun or foul ball into the stands, or are there regular switches?

@LostInParadise

In baseball they switch the ball out ever so often, even if there are no home runs or foul balls into the stands. Just through the regular course of play the ball is going to get worn, damaged and dirty, so as a rule it’s swapped out fairly regularly. At least at the MLB level.

@LostInParadise The most a ball would be used in major league baseball is one half inning, if the ball is never struck by a bat and never touches the ground but is always caught in a mitt and thrown back to the pitcher.

When the side is out and the other team takes the field, the umpire introduces a new ball after warm-ups, when he calls, “play ball”.

Thanks @Darth_Algar and @zenvelo. Baseball (and cricket from what I understand of it) and football differ from sports like soccer, basketball and hockey in that there is not the same rapid turnaround from one side to the other. This makes it easy to switch balls between turns by the two teams to be on offense. In baseball, this is done by the umpire, but in football each team has its own set of balls, which still strikes me as a bit odd.

Yes. I found this out today.