http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/...dell/86820896/
Hornung admits to wearing a leather helmet in college, plastic Riddell as a pro. Claims Riddell knew enough way back then to have warned him.
This seems like a hard one to prove. Seems like Riddell can argue they were a vast improvement over what he wore in college, and were probably at the leading edge of the technology at the time.
Prolly looked like a good gamble to the Horn.
While skull fractures and bleeding were a cause for concern with previous helmets, I am not sure hard shell plastic helmets, as it came to be used, have really had a net positive impact except for keeping players in the game (because they are not bleeding or fractured). It mainly has moved the risk of the collision forward in time.
Mainly, I blame the Steelers.
Bud Adams told me the franchise he admired the most was the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he asked for more hookers and blow.
The helmet of the future
And to think that all those years Hornung thought he was just hung over.
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