While coaching middle school in Murray, Kentucky, Brian Gudalis saw the three lines of the thigh pads & wondered "why only three lines showing through the pants?" Years later Brian decided that it was time for him to change those lines into an image. So using a borrowed pair of football pants from an old college buddy, Blake Long, and some foam from a craft store, he went to his garage and invented the first TREDCAL. His 10 year old son, Cade, was the first to wear a TREDCAL.