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The National Football League has teamed up with 50 designers from the Council of Fashion Designers of America on a series of wildly embellished footballs. This Betsey Johnson piece features gold rosettes. Take a look at the other wild designs...
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The luxury jeweler used 12 pounds of sterling silver and created accents in yellow gold.
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This ball features the brand's signature "Stace Face" icon and is covered in Swarovski crystals.
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This ball, perhaps inspired by the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead, is made of acrylic paint and hand-embellished with metal studs and silk flowers.
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Celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe covered her ball in Swarovski crystals, topaz and tassels.
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This Star Wars-inspired ball was constructed using plastic bricks, and secured with glue.
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The accessories designer's rather impractical football is covered in metal studs.
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This black leather football is secured inside a gold-plated brass cage.
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The accessories label's piece is swamped in silver chains and Swarovski crystals.
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Inspired by the saying "victory is sweet," WHIT created a football -- made from cellophane and enamel -- that looks like a piece of confectionery.
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The eyewear label dressed their football in a pair of the brand's glasses, a fedora hat and a mini-trench coat.
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This fringed ball is covered in leather, chains and beads, all sewn on with metallic thread.
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Because football is played primarily with one's hands, the designer wanted to reconnect the foot and ball.

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Council of Fashion Designers of America has teamed up with National Football League

The two organizations have produced 50 collaborative footballs for the Super Bowl 50

These footballs will be available for purchase via an online auction

CNN  — 

The American football has been given a glitzy – if slightly impractical – makeover.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl on February 8, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has teamed up with the National Football League (NFL) to create a series of bespoke, and often bejeweled, footballs.

Fifty designers – including big names such as Tiffany & Co and Betsey Johnson – have produced their own take on the normally brown leather ball. Gold leaf, tassels, metal spikes and other extravagant embellishments can be seen throughout the series.

Each piece is being auctioned online from now until February 14, and proceeds will go to the league’s charity, the NFL Foundation. The minimum starting bid is $500.

Scroll through the gallery above for highlights from the series.