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).
“Leather helmets protected heads more than people think.”
We actually don’t know if they did or not really assist. Injuries for cheap athletes were not a major concern and not recorded. When plastic helmets arrived, 1939 when Rydell put them on the market, the game had been in existance for around 100 years at a more disorganized system, so before that it was a semi organized sumo match played by not really trained people hitting heads. And the galdiators were there long before that. (And they were plugged in on the same disorganized role)
Today’s conditioning and muscle building is based upon a role of violence put into science that the old guys never saw. So putting the leather back into practice will not sell with the butt in the seats so that ain’t going to happen. And it’s against the law to give them weapons to kill each other with. So I ask you, would people pay to see a pillowfight? Therefore, if you can’t afford to stop the violence, you anesthesize the public into thinking a 10% improvement of the danger justifies the continuance of calling sport a street fight.
wy69