Talk:pigskin
- Footballs used by school teams and professional teams prior to the 1950s often were made of a rubber "bladder" covered with a light-color leather; the exterior leather was actual pigskin or assumed to be because of its flexibility and texture. The ball was somewhat greater in length and visibly greater in diameter than the modern full-size / football, and older versions had a smoother exterior with recessed lacing. See: Apple #356, The Football's Shape, http://dailyapple.blogspot.com/. The first US football games were played with a rugby ball; the modern football is a direct descendant of the ball used in rugby. Wayne Roberson, Austin, Texas 20:45, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
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Ethnic slur for a white person. Equinox ◑ 01:18, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- Googling "you pigskins" turns up a tiny handful of uses, e.g. a commenter here, and a now-deleted Reddit account that said "Cause you pigskins are great at both. Remember when a white dude, Brock turner, raped a woman and then another white dude let him off Scott free." For some of the cites it's not clear to me what race is being slurred, since a comparison between brown human skin and a brown pigskin (“football”) is also possible. Unless we want to invoke the online-cites rule and scrape some very low-quality sites, I think this will fail like Talk:pukeskin and Talk:pinkskin. - -sche (discuss) 22:09, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 01:31, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense "a white person". Added by an IP in diff apparently taken from Urban Dictionary. Ioaxxere (talk) 17:01, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
- I removed it because it already failed RFV recently. (See the talk page for some similar -skin terms, btw.) - -sche (discuss) 21:23, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
- Failed: previously failed verification; recreated without new quotations. — Sgconlaw (talk) 05:29, 22 March 2023 (UTC)