I understand taking the COA literally as mentioned by Phil, but I was asking because inhad never seen one painted like this outside of a gameball or presentation ball. I see what the COA states but they are often made by people who don't know anything about the item. With that being said I bought it because I thought it was a cool item with the chance to be a steal but either way I was happy with the ball. I assume the person who paints gameballs for the Bills could be commissioned to do a ball but just seemed weird to do such an elaborate ball for an auction when they could of just had an autographed football and not many people would know the difference.