Episode
How Do They Do It?: Leather Footballs, Mussels
Overview
How do they craft footballs for the National Football League? How do they farm mussels? How do they design the ultimate fighter pilot's helmet?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 2012-09-13
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Leather Footballs, Mussels is Episode 11 in Season 9 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2012-09-13. The runtime is 22 min.
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