Steve the football heads are ten times as expensive and I don't see that investment in equipment has a benefit you loose one in twenty casts and the balls work fine. You can paint ALL lead heads to match the jigs, grubs, flukes and swim baits. I prefer the ball heads but sometimes I like the bullet heads (for deep water casting to erupting bait). In any case I paint the heads to match the baits I throw and on the backs of the round heads I paint them red so the head when rigged with a swim bait looks like the bait has flared gills I have mostly off white belly with black to blue black tops for anchovies/ shad patterns, I use chartreuse back with an orange belly for hot belly dorado, and fire tiger patterns and of course, red shad for my 12" worms which is painted burgundy / red on the bottom and black on the top. I normally buy them in bulk boxes at Cabela's below are the painted heads and the swim baits. The reason baits like these are needed in sizes is that as the small fry (bait grows they get bigger during the year) 2-3" in spring 4 " in summer and 5" in fall you triple your fish count if you went through size changes all year matching the baits as they grow.