Guardian caps are the new safety covers for NFL players.
The NFL will have to mandate them before players will accept them.
The main concern amongst players is they are ugly.
New NFL helmet pads reduce injuries but some players, fans reject style (yahoo.com)
This reminds me of the NHL having to mandate helmets and NASCAR having to mandate full face helmets and the HANS device.
Who cares if we have any functioning brain cells in our 50s as long as we look good.
The higher level athlete, the more they are willing to sacrifice long term for every incremental advantage.
It is hard for me to be judgmental knowing the idiocy I did weight cutting just in high school wrestling.
Which is why it needs to be mandated.
In the NHL, the league negotiated with the players union (who didn’t want a helmet requirement) and the players agreed that anyone entering the league after a specified date had to wear a helmet. I remember when goalies first started wearing masks and the old line goalies called them wussies. Of course, those guys retired with no teeth and a face that looked like it cam out of a meat grinder. Today, the goalies all wear masks and heavy duty helmets.
Do you know the last active player who never wore a helmet?
And if you go back far enough, baseball players didn’t wear gloves and made fun of the first players to do so.
Craig MacTavish
Bingo
…also known as someone who killed a woman while driving Drunk.
How did I not know that?
He spent time in jail and resumed his career afterwards.
Similar to Michael Vick.
I googled the article.
It is just crazy that I didn’t know this.
But to be fair to myself, it happened in 84 and I didn’t start following him until the mid 90’s when he was with the Blues.
and they would also leave their gloves in the field when their team went to bat. That finally stopped in the early 1950s.
