“making the players look ridiculous is going to be bad for the sport.”
But keeping them from concussion protocols is better. It’s not the answer to medical effeciency but it does cut the chances of an emergency by about 10%.
It wasn’t until the 1920’s that helmets were used widely in football and those were almost a world war I flying cap. The first helmets were actually used by Lafayette College in the late 1860’s to protect ears from being grabbed during tackling.
The new helmet will be made probably by 2nd Skull® and it has been in experimentation to replace the Rydells for a number of years. Looks like a plasstic riding helmet.
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Leather helmets protected heads more than people think.
No-one wants to lead with the head if it hurts!
Bring back leather helmets.
And give them spears and a mace.
That would be worth watching.
(Bread and circus).
We could always wrap the players in bubble wrap to help prevent injury, yes I know that’s absurd, but injuries are part of the game, head injuries over time will go down as the idea of using your head as a battering ram is coached out of football due to penalties and threats of ejection.
Football is a brutal contact sport played by grown men, injuries are part of the game and yet people line up to play it and playing it in the NFL is their dream.
What’s next, putting protective headgear on UFC fighters or professional boxers.