The official source for NFL news, video highlights, fantasy football, game-day coverage, schedules, ... Media Call Announcing the 2019 NFL/NFLPA Helmet Laboratory Testing Performance Results ...

Fall brings football season in the U.S. and, with it, the parade of distinctively decorated helmets that the players wear. Over time, the shape and size of these helmets have gradually changed ...

In the early 1960s, then-NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle observed that television, not ticket sales, would power football's future financial success. Helmet branding was a vital way to promote and ...

Per football historian Timothy P. Brown, early helmets were constructed from plain leather in “various shades of brown or black, so they all looked more or less alike, as did many team uniforms.” ...