The concussion epidemic: Should helmets be banned from football?

saintsfan403 · 01-16-2014, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by SaintsBro

The other solution which sounds like lunacy but could actually work....is to make the helmets HUGE enormous puffy airbag type devices, so the players look like goofy bobble heads...looks silly to us, but I bet a modern helmet would look incredibly weird compared to an old-fashioned leather helmet, to someone of that era....

Look at the newest generation of helmets. All the ones that receive 5 star ratings have wide facemasks that extend past the traditional field of view and wrap around most of the helmet. I expect that more teams are going to switch to the vengeance, xenith and riddell 360 model over traditional schutt and ridells.
As for big, puffy helmets-someone tried that before and the idea never picked up, google 'bulwark football helmet'.

01-16-2014, 05:34 PM	#15
saintsfan403 1000 Posts + Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: WHO DAT NATION Posts: 2,261	Re: The concussion epidemic: Should helmets be banned from football? Originally Posted by SaintsBro The other solution which sounds like lunacy but could actually work....is to make the helmets HUGE enormous puffy airbag type devices, so the players look like goofy bobble heads...looks silly to us, but I bet a modern helmet would look incredibly weird compared to an old-fashioned leather helmet, to someone of that era.... Look at the newest generation of helmets. All the ones that receive 5 star ratings have wide facemasks that extend past the traditional field of view and wrap around most of the helmet. I expect that more teams are going to switch to the vengeance, xenith and riddell 360 model over traditional schutt and ridells. As for big, puffy helmets-someone tried that before and the idea never picked up, google 'bulwark football helmet'.

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