After five seasons in either anthracite or white helmets, the New Mexico football program will return to its traditional silver lids in 2020. “It’s tradition to have silver helmets,” first-year head coach Danny Gonzales told the Santa Fe New Mexican following the team’s first spring practice. “It’s a cleaner look
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Throwback NFL Helmets are on the injury reports as… Doubtful
The NFL has circulated a memo telling teams that it is their “strong recommendation” that they do not have their players wear a separate helmet “purely for cosmetic reasons.” This means that teams whose throwback uniforms are paired with a differently coloured helmet will most likely not wear their throwbacks
Wake Forest Has Two New Helmets, But Not The Ones We Had Expected
A few months ago, photographs of some purported new helmets for Wake Forest had made the rounds. People considered them to be fairly likely, and were proclaimed “legit.” Today, we see what the team will actually use. This morning, Offensive Line Coach Jonathan Himebauch (@COACH_HIMEY ) tweeted pictures from the Wake
The Story Behind the NCAA High-Gloss and Matte Helmets
It wasn’t until 2012 that teams started adorning helmets with duck wings and metallic “scars.” Add those types of embellishments to shiny chrome or matte and the array of new looks for helmets across the nation continues to grow with every regular-season Saturday and even further during bowl season. We
Virginia Tech Bowl Game Helmet Feature Giant Orange Turkey
Photos via: VT Equipment Room Also pictured, the Sandy Hook memorial decal on the back.
Duke’s New Helmets, One Reversed, the Other Blacked Out.
The Duke Blue Devils showed off their multiple helmet selections, adding a blue and a black to their previous white. The blue is a shiny metallic shell with white logo and stripe, the black is flat, or matte, with glossy logo and stripe. In the display helmets, the black appears
HGI – Hydro Graphics Inc Makes Some Amazing Helmet Designs
Responsible for the “leather look” Redskins helmet to the chrome Oregon helmet, HGI is making some amazing-looking helmet designs. The current photos being floated around sports blogs and the twittersphere is of a Syracuse-shirted man holding an opalescent sherbert colored helmet. This is Syracuse Head Equipment Manager Kyle Fetterly at the AEMA show in