NFL helmet design poll

Gotta be the Steelers, right? The logo's only on one side! That's awesome!

chargers

have always dug the rams & bills

I really like the Texans logo and color scheme, but I can't commit.

who's the worst? texans or ravens?

Gotta be the Steelers, right?

gotta be the steelers.

the ones with the team name on them are pretty terrible

I like Chicago's (oldtimestyle), Colt's (minimalism), Bolt's (cartoons on saturday morning), iggles (awesome green), Titans (just really awesome contrast, bold, onfire T!), and lions (Atari-looking logo)

the color scheme kinda saves the texans. they really should have a silhouette of texas on their helmet, idgw they don't. worst: between the ravens, panthers, and jaguars imo.

bengals browns rams steelers

imo

steelers logo disgusting imo

the ones with the team name on them are pretty terrible

I liked the Jets' mid-history unis, before they went back to the original scheme. Well, the helmets mostly. All the green overload was unnecessary.

metonymy is key here - love the eagles helmet but hate the falcons one

also don't like it when they show the head of the animal

tried to look at this from a neutral POV as if I didn't have a gut reaction to each of these helmets and ended up picking the...seahawks?

I like the old Eagles helmet better. That's my reaction to a lot of these - "well, the throwback is great, but..."

i'm not really a fan of the modern swooshy designs. have a soft spot for the rams helmet. hate to say it but colts is a pretty classic look. but can't touch cleveland. jets is by some distance the worst non-racist helmet.

hahah

you know I might have to vote for the dolphins - because the dolphin is wearing a helmet. a lost opportunity for recursion though, so points off for that.

is the winged helmet look just way too associated w/ michigan for anyone to try it in the nfl? anyhow voted chargers just barely over steelers, vikings, browns (penn state and bama have my fave football unis/helmets in college and browns are closest to that ethos). chargers power blue uni = pinnacle of nfl unis imo.

little known fact: the dolphin in the dolphins helmet is wearing a helmet, and on that helmet is a dolphin wearing a helmet

I thought the dolphin's helmet just has an "M" on it.

actually that's not true daniel :(

(penn state and bama have my fave football unis/helmets in college and browns are closest to that ethos)

otm

"m" for mellifluous

feel like the lions missed an opportunity to go for some kind of classic british coat of arms gryffindor design

panthers worst. jags original helmet - http://www.profootballhof.com/assets/Helmet_Jacksonville_600.jpg. got sued cuz http://www.megathailand.com/images/JaguarLogo.jpg. logo they've had since has always looked like some half assed substitute they came up w/ on the fly. miss the old pats logo even though when i was a kid i thought it was a guy sitting on the toilet. hate they add the black highlights to the niners helmet.

the dolphins the only ones to not even attempt to make the animal look deadly, though I guess that makes sense cause a deadly dolphin would look even more ridiculous than a basically happy dolphin

actually cardinals cardinal doesn't necessarily look deadly, just looks extremely irritated

the dolphins the only ones to not even attempt to make the animal look deadly, though I guess that makes sense cause a deadly dolphin would look even more ridiculous than a basically happy dolphin

― iatee, Tuesday, November 9, 2010 9:18 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark

dolphins are ferocious predators bro

hell yeah

http://rookery.s3.amazonaws.com/839500/839631_66fe_625x1000.jpg

ya but the criteria is 'would they be able to kill a football player on the other team' not 'would they be able to hunt lots of yummy fish'

ps birds are still capable of doing that because they team up and all attack at once

dolphins frequently ram swimmers to death with their beaks

orcas are also dolphins and are apex predators

hint dudes...football is not played underwater

it'd be safer if it was!

not if you were playing against the dolphins

apparently

yeah, our mascot would ram opposing players to death with its beak.

if we're going that route the saints never made much sense as a team...wouldn't their m.o. be to allow themselves to get mercilessly pummeled by the other team, secure in their knowledge that the other team will burn in hell when they die

they tried that strategy for a while I think

Top 5: Saints, Colts, Rams, Cowboys, Vikes. Homer-vote for the Saints.

this is rapture-era saints iirc

(sinner slaying)

it's okay when the saints play the animal teams though because animals dont have souls

ppl have basically noted the good ones tho i'd include colts and chiefs as well

Texans helmet looks like a modern gas station logo, maybe on purpose!

I won't vote Browns because I need to be completely unbiased.

Colts, Chiefs, Jets, Chargers, Packers, Saints, Steelers, Rams, Raiders, Bears, Lions are all in the running. Still might go Browns.

Falcons not bad either.

this maybe should've been by division, then PLAYOFFS. omg

let's do it

8 brief polls to pick one team from each division, then bracket it down to a winner?

That sounds like a plan!

That way we get to have.....

ILNFL HELMET SUPERBOWL I

indeed.

still want a separate vintage helmet/uniforms poll.

Fo' sho'

Hall of fame Playoffs!

i can vote for my hometown team with pride

so whaddya say i set up eight division polls and then we do four polls (afc east vs west, north vs south, etc), then one afc and nfc poll each for the conference, then the super helmet bowl.

you should have seeds based on how the eight division polls turn out

feel like we need USFL HELMET POLL

i mean just look at these butes

http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/wp-content/gallery/2009-11-19-mike-tollin/12_usfl_helmets.jpg

I say pull the trigger, omar!

And yeah, maybe we can do USFL once NfL is complete. That'd be fun.

needs a 'these all suck' option

gamblers invaders gold outlaws

all pretty good i guess

usfl helmets are making me uncontrollably lol

jacksonville bulls!

denver gold team name + helmet design=omg

Washington Federals helmet is kinda badass. Like a fighter pilot helmet.

Blitz helmet designer needs a talking to. Or whoever decided to call them the "Blitz".

blitz looks like some off brand regional soft drink designed by the owners kid

LA express looks like a courier company helmet.

feel like we all need to take a closer look at this http://grab.by/7mh2

bulls is actually pretty dope but too detailed to work on a helmet

http://grab.by/7mhd

WTF is that? A canetoad-fish steamboat?

feel like we all need to take a closer look at this 

harkens back to a simpler time

A simpler time when amphibian steamboats were menacing

let's do it like the playoffs (two wildcards, plus division winners per conference) that way a divsion with awesome helmets isn't short changed by say the NFC SOUTH

otm^

NFC SOUTH

i love the Nfc south btw (if it exists) It's just that i'm drunk and need examples

when i was six my next door neighbors (whose son was then a linebacker at pitt) gave me a set of magnetic helmets. i would put them on the refrigerator in division order, nfc west on the left, then central and east, then the afc with the east on the far right. on gameday i put them lower down, with whoever was playing lined up against each other, then returned them to the standings when the game was over.

this is when the bengals had "bengals" written on their helmets, bills/bucs had white helmets, etc.

they are still at my dad's house. i need to find panthers/texans/titans/ravens to go with them tho

http://www.officialxfl.com/images/helmets/bighelmets/rage.jpg

Sorry. I'm getting out of line.

bottom 5

28 ravens
29 broncos
30 jags
31 titans
32 patriots

greatest of alltime is of course this guy http://grab.by/7mn7

Raider John Wayne-Eyepatch could take him.

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CFL has some nice helmets, but the Edmonton Eskimos is total Green Bay.

http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/cfl.htm

you are called the Toronto Argonauts and your helmet is a boring A in a circle. COME ON

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GORAMS

http://espn.go.com/blog/afcwest/post/_/id/27488/power-rankings-top-10-nfl-helmets

Why would they have an article like that and not put pictures of the helmets?

I still vote throwback Bills. For the whole uniform too, total class.

stumbled across this awesome comprehensive website and got stuck on it for an hour:
http://www.sportslogos.net/teams/list_by_league/7/National_Football_League/N/logos/

http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/7/187/full/1036.gif

http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/99/3063/full/4lbjp5511h6nuhld0twpdaghz.gif

so good

http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/99/3059/full/6397.gif

amazing

http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/7/165/full/hgyh8yofyo5q46euk9g7g70i9.gif

bobby s have you somewhere related your path to nfl fandom?

i must have somewhere. nfl was a thing for a couple years in the uk in the mid 80s, i think buoyed by the charismatic bears team. enter super bowl xx, every 7yo is a huge bears fan except precocious contrarian shut-ins. humiliation at school the next day, either turn away or double down, nurse that wound. fad passes for everyone else, i still have my pat shaped scar.

lol

i was in a fantasy league run by my little league coach then and had tony eason and andre tippett (we drafted full defenses -- it was pretty hardcore, relying on street & smith's without the internet). i'm not sure who i rooted for, but i never liked buddy ryan.

wiki informs me that andre tippett has converted to judaism, which is cool

wow i didn't realize full d fantasy football was ever a thing. it's incredible that any fantasy sports happened before the internet. i remember doing fantasy soccer leagues in british newspapers where you had to mail or phone in your changes during the year.

my first (and final FFB until yahoo years later) was pretty cool. had a team w/andre rison and esteemed rams RB robert delpino.

my main claim to fame was that i saw jerry rice play as a rookie in 85, quietly coveted him and took him relatively late in the 86 draft and saw him explode. also had joe morris the year he had 20 touchdowns and ken o'brien when he and marino would combine for 1000 yards whenever the lol jets and dolphins played

wiki informs me that andre tippett has converted to judaism, which is cool

― mookieproof, Wednesday, January 2, 2013 8:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tippett is the circumcised man's Lawrence Taylor.

is def true that every 7 yr old loved that bears team. they would sell mini helmets (i think w/ pencil sharpeners in them?) @ my elementary school during lunch & i tried to collect every team & the bears 1 took FOREVER to get, everyone wanted it. when i finally got it, it got cracked almost immediately iirc