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NFL Helmets: To buy an NFL Helmet or to view the complete NFL helmet design history of each NFL team, please click the appropriate NFL team link to the left. Authentic and Replica NFL Football Helmets are offered for each team.

How many kids picked their favorite teams based on a cool looking uniform or more importantly a rocking NFL helmet logo? Well, I will admit it--I did.

My favorite team used to be the Tampa Bay Bucs. They were truly an awful team in the late 1970's (0-26 during one stretch). For some silly reason, I thought their orange-dominated helmet was cool. Looking back on it, it is obvious that “Bucco Bruce” the jaunty Buc, was a little too….jaunty.


Bucs 1976-1996 _______ Bucs 1996-Current

In 1994, the National Football League mandated that teams wear alternate 'throwback' uniforms at various points throughout the season. That year saw teams wearing some alternative logos on their helmets. This is when I started collecting helmets. It is a fun hobby and I have over 50 collected.

Tracking the evolution of some teams helmets is very fun. The team with the longest running helmet design? That honor goes to the Arizona Cardinals. Their angry looking Cardinal logo has run continuously without modification since the second week of 1960 when the team was based in St. Louis.

Apparently, the 2004 season will not see any new radical helmet logo changes. The Indianapolis Colts will have a darker shade of blue in their uniforms, the Bengals unveiled a new B tiger-striped logo that will not appear on the helmet, and the Jacksonville Jaguars will have all black road pants with the logo on the hip.

To purchase a NFL helmet, follow the links of your favorite team. If you are interested in team specific histories for each team logo, click on the link to the left.

Unfortunately, not any new helmets to report on for the 2005 season. Just the usual throwback NFL helmet styles. I have seen San Diego, Dallas, and Buffalo all wear an alternate NFL Helmet.

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Professional manufacturers of football helmets include Bike, Riddell, Schutt, or Adams USA.

Players were not required to wear headgear until around the 1930's. Obviously, the helmets of yesteryear are much different than today. The evolution has gone from leather, to a harness style, to the modern rendition.

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