The scientists are understandably frustrated: Despite their continually updating the evidence demonstrating that the modern plastic safety helmet cannot prevent devastating head injuries in tackle ...

Big names such as Milwaukee and Uline dominate the market. Yet the standard yellow plastic helmet tends to be uncomfortable to wear, boring to look at, and unaffected by changes in technology and ...

There’s a big game this weekend, if you haven’t heard, and this first Kickstart item is about plastic helmets. But not football helmets. I’ve seen a couple of news items the past few days ...

the Miami Dolphins. The impact caused the plastic shell to shatter near the top of his helmet. The temperature in Kansas City was 4 degrees below zero at the time. It was a bizarre moment and not ...

you might be wondering when actual leather helmets were last used in competitive football games. Plastic helmets started showing up in 1939, and a decade later, the NFL officially made them mandatory.