Hip pads, knee pads, thigh pads. ... The league argues that knee and thigh pads are mandatory at every level of football except the NFL, and players should be good role models for youths.

Hip pads aren’t hip. Not in the NFL. They might be standard-issue equipment in college, but pro players aren’t required to wear them, so very few -- if any -- do. And that’s not all. In the ...

The controversial − and now illegal − hip-drop tackle has been banned from the NFL. Owners on Monday approved the ban addressing one of the league's key safety concerns while further ...

NFL owners will consider making all leg padding mandatory at their spring meetings this week. ... Marvez reported hip pads would not be mandatory. Brooks: Top five over 35.

As of Monday, NFL owners had planned to vote Tuesday on whether to make knee, thigh, and hip pads mandatory for all players as of 2013. Possibly due to an intention by the NFLPA to challenge any ...

If the NFL owners thought they could pass a new rule mandating the use of thigh and knee pads beginning in 2013 -- something they did Tuesday ... "Hip pads, knee pads, thigh pads.

NFL competition committee chairman, Rich McKay, attempted to clear up said confusion by further explaining the league's process regarding the hip-drop tackle rule proposal.

NFL owners are planning to vote Tuesday on a proposal that would make hip, thigh and knee pads mandatory for all players during games starting with the 2013 season.

Fox Sports has reported that the NFL owners will vote this week during the owner*s meetings in Atlanta on making thigh and knee pads mandatory for all players beginning in the 2013 season.

EARTH CITY, Mo. -- In the rear of a storage room, at the back of a shelf, 12 feet off the ground, in three sealed boxes, are the hip pads of the St. Louis Rams. From the top of a ladder, equipment ...