[Editor’s Note: Paul is on his annual August break from site. Deputy editor Phil Hecken is in charge from now through the end of the month, although Paul may be …
Category: Helmets
Designer Ethan Dimitroff Creates a High School Football Helmet
By Phil Hecken, with Ethan Dimitroff Follow @PhilHecken Hey kids, welcome to the day after the day after the Fourth of July (hope everyone had a safe holiday!), when many …
Charge! 1960s Car Commercial Is Loaded with Uni Goodness
Reader Chris Alvarez (@chrisinleaucadia) recently stumbled across an old TV commercial that totally delivers the uni-driven goods. It’s embedded above — go ahead and take 60 seconds to watch it. …
Is The C-Flap About to Become More the Rule Than the Exception?
Last year, just as the MLB season was getting started, I wrote an ESPN piece in which I said that the C-Flap faceguard extension was “poised for a breakout season,” …
Uni Watch Craft Project: Tecmo Super Bowl Cross-Stitch!
Click to enlarge — it’s worth it! When the Chargers announced their new primary jersey and new facemask color last week, most fans were happy. But Charles Wagner, a longtime …
A Uni Watch Look at Frank Robinson
Click to enlarge Frank Robinson died yesterday. You probably know that he was MLB’s first black manager, that he’s still the only player to have been named the MVP of …
Will It Go Round in Circles: Atlanta’s Super Attraction
NFL helmets — is there anything they can’t do? Over the years we’ve seen helmet phones, helmet snack bowls, helmet pencil toppers, helmet chairs, and a lot more. But I …
A Seriously Weird NFL Facemask
When I was a kid, I spent hours poring over the book The Pros, which one of my brothers had purchased years earlier and left behind in our house after …
Why Do the Rams Look Bad but the Chiefs Look Okay?
Click to enlarge Reader Kyle Seely got in touch the other day to raise an interesting point. He noted that we all seem to agree that the Rams’ current uniform …
Solved: The Mystery of BYU’s Red Dot
[Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from longtime reader and fellow journalist Cork Gaines, who found, and then solved, a good college football helmet mystery. — PL] By …
Titans Add 20th-Season Helmet Decal
Photo by @MickeyRyan1045, click to enlarge Paul here, pinch-hitting again for Phil, who has this weekend off. More NFL news yesterday, as the Titans added a helmet decal to commemorate …
Phils Surprise Living Daylights Out of Fans, Wear Cream Alts for Night Game
The Phillies wore their cream alternates with the blue headwear yesterday. They’ve been wearing that alternate uni design since 2008 — a full decade — but yesterday was different. It …
Gophers Unveil New Uni Set
Click to enlarge February isn’t usually the time for college football uniform news items, but the Minnesota Gophers came up with a whopper yesterday, as they unveiled a new uni …
Monday Morning Uni Watch, Super Bowl Edition
Embed from Getty Images That was a pretty uni-uneventful Super Bowl, eh? The primary exception was when Pats tight end Rob Gronkowski caught a touchdown pass and emerged with a …
Talking Helmets With Vicis CEO Dave Marver
Click to enlarge In 2017 I did two ESPN pieces on new football helmets — one on the Schutt F7 and another on Riddell’s Precision-Fit system. Until now, though, I …