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.