For the 22nd year people will line up outside Wilson Sporting Goods in Ada for the best deals of the year. Wilson is hosting its annual garage sale this Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon. The tradition allows people to shop for extra or discontinued sporting goods at a significantly cheaper price. The new plant controller says you can expect all the classic goods and apparel to be on sale from a wide variety of sports. The plant starts preparing for this a month in advance collecting and sorting through all the products that will be made available.
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Just outside of downtown Ada sits the decades-old Wilson Football Factory, otherwise known as the birthplace of every football to be used in every Super Bowl, ever.
The process it takes to make the game balls is an extensive one where the pride is in the details.
“What I do all day long is cut out panels, making footballs,” said Wilson cutter Loyd Conley. “I got to color match them and make them so they can be used with the NFL teams.”
From, the panels move on to get the logos imprinted on them before they can be sewn together — one of the hardest jobs to learn in the factory.