NFL Helmet for Motorcycle use.

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Keyoke · #11 Unread post by **Keyoke** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:49 am

I can understand why you'd want a helmet on a bike, but what kind of wuss needs a helmet to play rugby??

hehehehe

#12 Unread post by **Sev** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:54 am

When everyone else on the field has one... you want one to.

#13 Unread post by **cb360** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:23 am

Keyoke wrote:I can understand why you'd want a helmet on a bike, but what kind of wuss needs a helmet to play rugby?? hehehehe

'Cause the dudes wearing them try to hit you in the face with theirs even though there's a rule against it. Also, these dudes are mutants and somehow grow to 350.lbs yet remain fast as hell.

ronboskz650sr · Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:28 am

The wind noise would be deafening, too.

A kid came to my son's soccer game once, and stood in front of the bleachers proclaiming "Soccer is a pansy sport"..I yelled, " interesting comment from a kid wrapped head to toe in pads!" I guess football practice got him a little charged up. The laughter from the stands took care of that.

Scott58 · #15 Unread post by **Scott58** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:22 pm

Send this one to mythbusters. I'd really like to see a comparison between an NFL helmet and a motorcycle helmet. That would be pretty intertaining and informative i would think.

BuzZz · #16 Unread post by **BuzZz** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:52 pm

There is little similarity between the two types of helmets.

The most sever impact a football helmet will get is equivalent to the wearer running head-first into a wall as fast as he can. And with effectively no possibility for penetration. So the outer shell can be made to withstand those impacts repeatedly. The liner doesn't have to absorb as much energy so it's easier to make it also take repeated compressions.

A bike helmet is ultimately designed to take that 'One Big Hit' and sacrifice it's self to absorb it for the wearer.

#17 Unread post by **Sev** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:20 am

Don't forget that whatever a football helmet hits will typically have at least some give to it. You slam into someone and he moves back, you hit dirt and it deforms around you. Asphault is not nearly so forgiving.

BuzZz · #18 Unread post by **BuzZz** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:34 pm

The most common impact a football helmet gets is helmet-to-helmet. It is also the hardest impact it gets..... as Sev mentioned, everything else it makes contact with is considerably softer. Lid-to-lid will still rattle your noodle pretty good though... most players are semi-permanently concussed, you just can't really tell the difference from normal in a football player.

ronboskz650sr · Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:41 pm

BuzZz wrote:... most players are semi-permanently concussed, you just can't really tell the difference from normal in a football player.

Here we go!

BuzZz · #20 Unread post by **BuzZz** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:55 pm

I'm an ex-player, I know whereof I speak.

Brain damage??? Not me