This is my second football cake. I thought it would be easier than the first but it was just as challenging, if not, more than the first. I used Sylvia Weinstock's recipe which I use all the time for carving and it started to break apart when I was tapering the form. I put two halves together (from the Wilton pans) and it looks to deflated and flat so I tried to give it some dimension and as I was carving I started to see huge cracks form. Needless to say, I patched this baby up with some buttercream.