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Musing about the Los Angeles Chargers - and their helmets - got me thinking about some of the great (and not-so-great) professional football helmets that are no longer seen on the field of play.
Cincinnati Bengals
Really? That's the best they could think of for over a decade?
Dallas Cowboys
The addition of the red stripe - to go with the white and blue - for the bicentennial of 1976 was a nice touch.
Denver Broncos
For some reason, for several seasons in the 1960s the Broncos went with a logo of an apparently intoxicated horse.
New England Patriots
Who can forget the ridiculous colonialist about to hike the football?
New Orleans Saints
This was only used during the preseason in 1969, but it's some pretty sharp headgear!
I am one of what must be a very few who liked the Rams Blue and White helmet of the 60's They went to the yellow and blue in 73 and I was not a fan of that one so much.
I have an old Rams poster in the fun room, and the players are depicted in blue and white
Regarding Unsettomati's comments on the Cincinnati Bengals helmets.
That logo was decided by Paul Brown himself. Paul Brown's involvement with the Cleveland Browns- I believe most people are aware of here. Brown was pretty uncomfortable about having the team being named after him when the AAFC league cranked up in the late 1940's but reluctantly went along with it. When Art Modell became the owner he became a little bit more "hands on" than Paul Brown cared for. There were several things the two were at odds over and one (IMO) big thing-the situation regarding Ernie Davis. Shortly afterwards Paul Brown was fired, the first of a long series of goofs by Modell.
Just my opinion, but the Bengals uniforms were similar to Cleveland's. And the helmets certainly were similar. By having the team name spelled out on the helmet IMO told me that Paul Brown was mocking Cleveland. Paul Brown's Bengal franchise entered into the AFL in 1968 but Brown knew by charter he would be in the NFL as those negotiations for the two leagues to merge were going on the previous July. And Paul Brown was quoted as saying "I didn't pay 6 million dollars to join the American Football League."
During the merger talks the NFL owners went to the mat to figure out which 3 teams would be transferred to the AFC. The AFL had 8 charter teams and two expansion teams, totalling ten. The NFL had 13 teams. 3 teams had to go to the AFC to keep balance and it took a long time to get that settled. Finally commissioner Pete Rozelle said, "We're going to give $3 million dollars to each team that goes to the AFC. Baltimore Colt owner Carroll Rosenbloom immediately said ME! And with Pittsburgh and Cleveland joining the AFC and Houston transferring from the AFL's eastern division to AFC central, from the standpoint of logistics, it made perfect sense. And needless to say a Cinci/Cleveland rivalry would be in the making.
I am one of what must be a very few who liked the Rams Blue and White helmet of the 60's They went to the yellow and blue in 73 and I was not a fan of that one so much.
I have an old Rams poster in the fun room, and the players are depicted in blue and white
love the 2 colors, so simple like the Colts.
in that photo the blue looks darker than I've seen it before, wasn't it more of a royal blue and not navy-ish?
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