The most popular football helmet brand among NFL linebackers is Riddell and by a wide margin. This past season, we saw 81% of starting NFL linebackers wearing Riddell helmets – a majority of them in the Riddell Speedflex. The Speedflex is the most popular helme...
This is the first season we’ve covered football, and while we’ve got some of the top playerLockersadded, we also took the time to log the helmets, cleats and gloves of all 715 NFL starters. Crazy, I know. But that’s how we roll. This research provides us with valuable inf...
A few short weeks ago I had the second best job in America. No, I wasn’t a backup quarterback in the NFL. That’s the best job. I was the backup to the Prognosticator of the United States of America. I was the Vice Prognosticator. It was largely ceremonial. All I really had to ...
A signature uniform is not necessarily a team’s best uniform, or one which the team has worn the longest (although either of those could still apply), but rather the one uniform that, when you think of how a team looked at their most distinct, you have their signature uniform. Earlier...
Vicis wanted to be part of the solution. Unlike traditional helmets, the outer shell on its ZERO1 model is deformable and yields much like a car bumper upon impact. A layer of flexible columns in the helmet absorbs impact before it reaches the head. ...
The Moon has a smell. It has no air, but it has a smell. Each pair of Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon tramped lots of Moon dust back into the lunar module—it was deep gray, fine-grained and extremely clingy—and when they unsnapped their helmets, Neil Armstrong said, “We...
2. Embrace gaming, and gaming technology: While gaming such as Madden NFL is more than a decade old, the Goodell era has seen a much closer link between gaming and the league. Broadcasts now are filled with computer generated graphics that approximate the look ...