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  • Here's the new helmet:

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    It is a brighter orange with a brown facemask.

    It was announced in February.

    Zombo

  • @tim-couch-pulls-out said:

    This is not the new helmet.

    NFL and Ridell ended their partnership last year. This is just an old helmet with a matte finish and a new face mask.

    not really....Riddell just isnt allowed to brand the helmets anymore.....

    players can wear whatever brand or style of helmet they choose, but Riddell was the only one with branding rights....

    Now, it all stays the same, but no one has branding rights...

    basically, due to all the concussion issues, the NFL has decided not to endorse ANY helmets....leaving themselves out of the 'law suit' equation and making it between the player and the helmet manufacturer of his choice.....

    @mudfly said:

    basically, due to all the concussion issues, the NFL has decided not to endorse ANY helmets....leaving themselves out of the 'law suit' equation and making it between the player and the helmet manufacturer of his choice.....

    wow. I really don't know what to say about that. I get such douchechills off that organization. They're lucky their sport is so much fun to watch or we'd be over these fuckers a long time ago.

  • @tim-couch-pulls-out said:

    This is not the new helmet.

    NFL and Ridell ended their partnership last year. This is just an old helmet with a matte finish and a new face mask.

    So? Who is now making NFL helmets?

    @the-gipper said:

    So? Who is now making NFL helmets?

    Anybody the player wants.

    If I was the NFL, I would allow branding as long as it fell in to font standards and let the players collect whatever royality they could. Much like NASCAR allows branding or the PGA tour does with clubs and balls, such as Tilelist.

    Again, this would be the helmet only and it would have to be the standard logo as it has been....be it Adams, Schutt, Ridell, Wilson, etc.

  • basically, due to all the concussion issues, the NFL has decided not to endorse ANY helmets....leaving themselves out of the 'law suit' equation and making it between the player and the helmet manufacturer of his choice.....

    I saw a study that says the helmet has little to do with concussions. In the NFL collisions cause the brain, which is surrounded by fluid, to hit the skull

    thereby causing a concussion.

  • basically, due to all the concussion issues, the NFL has decided not to endorse ANY helmets....leaving themselves out of the 'law suit' equation and making it between the player and the helmet manufacturer of his choice.....

    I saw a study that says the helmet has little to do with concussions. In the NFL collisions cause the brain, which is surrounded by fluid, to hit the skull

    thereby causing a concussion.

    @paul-warfield said:

    basically, due to all the concussion issues, the NFL has decided not to endorse ANY helmets....leaving themselves out of the 'law suit' equation and making it between the player and the helmet manufacturer of his choice.....

    I saw a study that says the helmet has little to do with concussions. In the NFL collisions cause the brain, which is surrounded by fluid, to hit the skull

    thereby causing a concussion.

    Tell that to the PI attorneys.

    WSS

  • Whitner tweets new uniforms will look like....

    "The Oregon Ducks of the NFL"

  • 9 different combinations

  • Whitner tweets new uniforms will look like....

    "The Oregon Ducks of the NFL"

    @walterwhite said:

    Whitner tweets new uniforms will look like....

    "The Oregon Ducks of the NFL"

    Would rather be The Ohio State Buckeyes of the NFL.

  • that would be worst case scenario

  • basically, due to all the concussion issues, the NFL has decided not to endorse ANY helmets....leaving themselves out of the 'law suit' equation and making it between the player and the helmet manufacturer of his choice.....

    I saw a study that says the helmet has little to do with concussions. In the NFL collisions cause the brain, which is surrounded by fluid, to hit the skull

    thereby causing a concussion.

    @paul-warfield said:

    basically, due to all the concussion issues, the NFL has decided not to endorse ANY helmets....leaving themselves out of the 'law suit' equation and making it between the player and the helmet manufacturer of his choice.....

    I saw a study that says the helmet has little to do with concussions. In the NFL collisions cause the brain, which is surrounded by fluid, to hit the skull

    thereby causing a concussion.

    The purpose of the helmet is to prevent skull fractures. Period.

    Concussions are a result of physics, which no helmet design can overcome.

  • @paul-warfield said:

    basically, due to all the concussion issues, the NFL has decided not to endorse ANY helmets....leaving themselves out of the 'law suit' equation and making it between the player and the helmet manufacturer of his choice.....

    I saw a study that says the helmet has little to do with concussions. In the NFL collisions cause the brain, which is surrounded by fluid, to hit the skull

    thereby causing a concussion.

    The purpose of the helmet is to prevent skull fractures. Period.

    Concussions are a result of physics, which no helmet design can overcome.

    @dste-ace said:

    The purpose of the helmet is to prevent skull fractures. Period.

    Concussions are a result of physics, which no helmet design can overcome.

    I can't imagine that some helmet design wouldn't at least make a difference?

    Woody?

    WSS

  • @dste-ace said:

    The purpose of the helmet is to prevent skull fractures. Period.

    Concussions are a result of physics, which no helmet design can overcome.

    I can't imagine that some helmet design wouldn't at least make a difference?

    Woody?

    WSS

    I swear this AM I first read this thread title as "Tweets and Speculation about Unicorns".

    @westside-steve said:

    I can't imagine that some helmet design wouldn't at least make a difference?

    Woody?

    The difference is minor bordering on negligible, Steve. One new design claimed 11% reduction in "head trauma", but it has not been independently verified and may not have been referring to concussions.

  • When are they due to release the new look uniforms?

  • When are they due to release the new look uniforms?

    @logicisforsquares said:

    When are they due to release the new look uniforms?

    April 14 at 7:30 pm

  • Yeah they should be able to design a helmet that will help reduce concussions. Think about seat belts. They work because they stretch under times of high energy, thus reducing/damping the force your body is subject to. There's no reason a properly designed helmet could not at least help reduce concussions by absorbing some of the energy from a collision.

  • @logicisforsquares said:

    When are they due to release the new look uniforms?

    April 14 at 7:30 pm

    @walterwhite said:

    April 14 at 7:30 pm

    So everyone can blow their tax refunds on new gear?

  • Yeah they should be able to design a helmet that will help reduce concussions. Think about seat belts. They work because they stretch under times of high energy, thus reducing/damping the force your body is subject to. There's no reason a properly designed helmet could not at least help reduce concussions by absorbing some of the energy from a collision.

    @pumpkin-eater said:

    Yeah they should be able to design a helmet that will help reduce concussions. Think about seat belts. They work because they stretch under times of high energy, thus reducing/damping the force your body is subject to. There's no reason a properly designed helmet could not at least help reduce concussions by absorbing some of the energy from a collision.

    Someone proposed the idea of adding a few strips of foam to the top of the helmet to help absorb shock. They would be the team colors and blend in.

  • @walterwhite said:

    April 14 at 7:30 pm

    So everyone can blow their tax refunds on new gear?

    @wargograw said:

    So everyone can blow their tax refunds on new gear?

    Exactly.

    The NFL is on top of it. The power of marketing research

  • I never understood that. It's not as if people are actually getting their refunds on the 15th. It's just a deadline to file. Maybe I'm wrong, but my dad's a CPA and I've never gotten mine on the 15th.

  • Yeah they should be able to design a helmet that will help reduce concussions. Think about seat belts. They work because they stretch under times of high energy, thus reducing/damping the force your body is subject to. There's no reason a properly designed helmet could not at least help reduce concussions by absorbing some of the energy from a collision.

    @pumpkin-eater said:

    Yeah they should be able to design a helmet that will help reduce concussions. Think about seat belts. They work because they stretch under times of high energy, thus reducing/damping the force your body is subject to. There's no reason a properly designed helmet could not at least help reduce concussions by absorbing some of the energy from a collision.

    Seat belts work by anchoring your body to the vehicle's frame so you decelerate at essentially the same rate as the vehicle. Without them and end up launched into the windshield... or your padded dashboard.

    The energy dissipated by the slight reduction in deceleration due to the small amount they stretch, is not significant. The principle is to spread the force out over as much area as possible, i.e., across the hips and chest.

    @walterwhite said:

    Someone proposed the idea of adding a few strips of foam to the top of the helmet to help absorb shock. They would be the team colors and blend in.

    Helmets with full, foam caps on them have been around for years. Mark Kelso wore one over 20 years ago as did a SF O-lineman. The benefit is negligible.