Abstract: A wall mount assembly for suspending a helmet near a wall to provide the illusion to a viewer positioned so that the helmet is located between the viewer and the wall mount base that the helmet is floating without support. The wall mount assembly having at least one wall mount pad that may be moved relative to a wall side of the wall mount base to alter a tilt of the helmet relative to the wall side of the wall mount base. A helmet threaded element extending from the wall mount base and through a hole in the helmet receives an interior threaded element which may be advanced to secure the helmet to the wall mount base.

Abstract: Methods of attaching a football to a wall mount assemblies including connection with or without partially elastic augmentation bands. The augmentation bands interact with seams running from one pole to another pole on a ball. The ball may be a football. A football may be connected to the wall mount assembly via a lace engagement component that engages the laces on the football. The various wall mount assemblies provide an illusion that the ball is floating near the flat surface without support. A wall mount component connected to the flat surface by a set of fasteners is out of the line-of-sight of an observer as the wall mount component is behind the ball and the connection between the ball and the wall mount component is designed to be difficult to see.

Abstract: Methods of attaching a football to a wall mount assemblies including connection with or without partially elastic augmentation bands. The augmentation bands interact with seams running from one pole to another pole on a ball. The ball may be a football. A football may be connected to the wall mount assembly via a lace engagement component that engages the laces on the football. The various wall mount assemblies provide an illusion that the ball is floating near the flat surface without support. A wall mount component connected to the flat surface by a set of fasteners is out of the line-of-sight of an observer as the wall mount component is behind the ball and the connection between the ball and the wall mount component is designed to be difficult to see.

Abstract: Wall mount assemblies with partially elastic augmentation bands or inelastic bands. The augmentation bands and inelastic bands interact with seams running from one pole to another pole on a ball. The ball may be a football, basketball, or other type of ball. A football may be further connected to the wall mount assembly via a lace engagement component that engages the laces on the football. The various wall mount assemblies provide an illusion that the ball is floating near the flat surface without support. A wall mount component connected to the flat surface by a set of fasteners is out of the line-of-sight of an observer as the wall mount component is behind the ball and the connection between the ball and the wall mount component is designed to be difficult to see.

Abstract: A wall mount assembly for suspending a football near a wall to provide the illusion that the football is floating without support. The wall mount assembly having a lace engagement component for engaging with the laces of the football to hold the football to a wall engagement portion of the wall mount assembly. Lace engagement components can be selected to rotate the position of the laces from the top of the mounted football to closer to the wall behind the football if desired to display a signature on a football panel not adjacent to the laces.