So, I want to hear your opinions. Which do you prefer? Not talking about the stand-up kind, or fancy head designs. Just round or football. 

Better bottom contact with a football style shakey head, feel much more and a better action in my experiences.

I like football shaped heads as they don't seem to get hung as easily in rock, though it still isn't hard to do.

I like round because they're really the only ones I have I like them have gotten used to fishing with them so it just works for Me

Tight lines

Andrew

I carry both, but I'm partial to the football heads.

Neither....I like the hybrid of the two that VMC makes called the Rugby Head. Stands up great like a football, has an offset EWG hook to rig baits weedless...I hate the giant barbs, pegs, or screw locks on other shaky heads, and they come through wood/dock's AND grass better for me than both a round or regular football.

2 different tools for me each has its time and place - rock/gravel football - laydowns and such - round.

I voted round.  My favorite feature is a flat bottom on the head.  I cant really tell any difference in the two when I fish them.  Especially in the real light weights.

Football head.  However; Mike (see one post above) and I were just chatting about this yesterday and I'm going to try out some of those football heads he has with the side cut off here pretty soon.  The hook he has on his shakey heads just looks killer.

 

BTW guys, I had a relatively unimportant question I emailed to Mike yesterday and he was Johnny on the spot and got back with me ASAP.  Can't buy that kind of customer support.  Thanks Mike!

I use round style shakey heads. The Picasso shakedown is my go to with a powerteam finicky tickler on it.

I carry both, football tend to hang up less in areas with chunk rock.

Round.

Football but I found that with the 1/8oz I fish most of the time it doesn't really matter.

 

Allen

We need a neither option because I use the Spot Remover shakey heads which are rounded but completely flat on the bottom.

I use both but if I had to pick one it would be round.

If forced to pick between the two you have listed I'd opt for round. Now having said that, I fish the Owner Ultrahead which doesn't really fall into either category. I haven't looked at any other shakeyheads since discovering the Owner's, they're that good IMHO. My favorite before the Ultrahead was the earlier mentioned Shakedown.  

I like these=best of both worlds

Give these a try and see what all the talk is about. Bobby has a large following

on this forum. You can order direct and be sure to add a few of his other baits.

I am especially fond of the MegaBug and MegaTube Craw.

I like a round head and I don't care too much for a flat bottom. I make my own but before I did I tried a bunch of different ones from Jewel to Buckeye lures and then I bought the Cumberland Pro Lures round shaky head, nothing fancy and it worked as well as everything else so then I had enough info to make my own. I like a round head as I said but it has to be a flat eye hook, that has worked the best for me and like some others have mentioned, I use small weights, I rarely go over 3/16oz with 1/8oz being the most common weight and so it doesn't matter if it is round or football at that weight.

Another vote for the owner ultrahead

Echoing what others are saying... Both have their own time and place. I find myself wanting to use football more but use whichever is needed.

i love the football