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'.

SaintsBro · 01-17-2014, 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by saintsfan403

As for big, puffy helmets-someone tried that before and the idea never picked up, google 'bulwark football helmet'.

Interesting info in your post, thanks.

I wonder if it didn't catch on because it doesn't really improve safety, or if it didn't catch on because it looks really weird. Which relates to part of my point in my post, which was, if they changed it, by the time the next generation of football fans and players came to get comfortable with it, it will no longer look weird. Things we take for granted today like foam padding on the goal posts, artificial turf, or the really bright dayglo orange styrofoam pegs in the end zone, that stuff used to be weird and unusual and a novelty in people's eyes, at one time.

01-16-2014, 05:34 PM	#1
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'.

01-17-2014, 09:39 AM	#2
SaintsBro Site Donor Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: in line with my ridiculous CLEAR PLASTIC BAG Posts: 3,650 Blog Entries: 3	Re: The concussion epidemic: Should helmets be banned from football? Originally Posted by saintsfan403 As for big, puffy helmets-someone tried that before and the idea never picked up, google 'bulwark football helmet'. Interesting info in your post, thanks. I wonder if it didn't catch on because it doesn't really improve safety, or if it didn't catch on because it looks really weird. Which relates to part of my point in my post, which was, if they changed it, by the time the next generation of football fans and players came to get comfortable with it, it will no longer look weird. Things we take for granted today like foam padding on the goal posts, artificial turf, or the really bright dayglo orange styrofoam pegs in the end zone, that stuff used to be weird and unusual and a novelty in people's eyes, at one time.
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