John Nellis puts giant and tiny footballs through a bounce test
A wall supplies the height chart, but viewers are questioning the final ball's spectacular rebound.
Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 445,692 views.
Which Football Will Bounce the Highest?
The giant inflatable football makes a modest start. A tiny one promptly bounces much higher. John Nellis's latest challenge turns a high wall into a playground testing ground, with coloured height markers showing how far each ball rebounds.
Uploaded today, "Which Football Will Bounce the Highest?" has drawn roughly 446,000 views in its first few hours. Nellis works through a standard football, an American football and a Gaelic football before a golf-ball-sized contender raises the bar again. Size is doing little to predict the result.
The finale brings out a yellow Moon Ball, whose enormous rebound has some viewers questioning the throw and the editing. Those comments aren't proof of trickery, but they do give this simple drop test a second question: not just which ball bounces highest, but whether everyone accepts the demonstration.
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Where next?
- Channel
- John Nellis
- Subscribers
- 17,000,000 ▲ 100,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 92,529,962
- Channel views, pace per day
- 4,376,303 (on a normal day: 13,497,629)
- Video published
- November 7, 2026
The numbers
The Short has already drawn a substantial audience within hours of going up. Its views here are its total so far, not a full day's count.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which country's football does Nellis introduce alongside the standard and American balls?
Nellis introduces a Gaelic football from Ireland during the bounce test.

