Posts Tagged ‘Riddell’
By Paul Stone On November 6th, 2013
Riddell’s helmets have taken a beating over the past couple years, and not just in the literal sense. Riddell has been implicated in every huge football-related concussion lawsuit in recent history, and they have lost at least one legal battle addressing their concussion prevention claims on their own. Those exact claims that Riddell’s helmets can…
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By Paul Stone On May 7th, 2013
In the conversation surrounding the NFL and Riddell’s brain injury litigation, there seem to be two camps of extremists. There are those that stand behind the mantra “they knew what they were signing up for” and ignore the possibility that the league and game are putting players in unnecessary danger, and then there are those…
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By Paul Stone On March 13th, 2013
Take a second to consider that there was a time when football was played without a helmet. Of course, now you need a helmet just to compete in cycling and baseball, but helmets haven’t been as common as they are now for very long at all. As they’ve gotten more popular, the design of helmets…
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