If you’ve seen anything we’ve done, you know we love us some helmets. That’s not how we started. Initially we just wanted something cool to put in our weekly power rankings. That led us to a look at helmets from the past, which branched into “concept helmets”. It’s exactly what it sounds like; someone’s concept of what a team’s helmet could look like. And I promise you… there are some amazing ones all over the internet. We gathered most of the ones we found here:
We found, however, some inequities. If you’re a fan of ‘Bama or Ohio State or Clemson, you’re in luck. There are all kinds of people out there spitting out concept helmets for your school. But if you support a smaller school, you might be out of luck. There just ain’t a lot of people out there drawing up concept helmets for the Louisiana Monroe Warhawks or the Old Dominion Monarchs.
So we decided to try our hand. We started with the schools we knew from our digging didn’t have any out there. But it didn’t sty there long. I don’t remember which idea jumped out in our brainstorming session, (the RTP staff consists of me and my 4 teenagers…. this is literally a COVID project.) but by the next night we had done a helmet for all 130 college teams… and we wanted to do more. Like everything else we’ve done on this stupid little blog, it was amazing. So we moved on to the NFL and tried to put our stamp on the pros.
But that didn’t quench our thirst; after a brief conversation debating weather MLB football helmets would be weird, we devoured the NHL, NBA, and the aforementioned MLB. Every team.
To enjoy them, you have to go a bit Tim Burton. Suspend a little bit of reality. We hope you’ll take 3 steps…. Ask “why in the hell would someone make a football helmet for the Detroit Pistons?” Followed by “What would that look like, anyway?” and ending with. “Ok, that is pretty damn cool.” Or maybe you think they suck. Either way, let us know what you think in the comments below. Want to see more from your team? Leave it in the comments as well and follow us on Twitter to see when we put stuff out; if you ask, we’ll probably do it.
Below this you will see a row of league logos; if you want to see what we put together in the other sports, click the leagues logo.


Air Force


Akron


Alabama


Arizona


Arizona State


Arkansas


Arkansas State


Army


App State


Auburn


Ball State


Baylor


Boise State


Boston College


Bowling Green


Buffalo


BYU


Cal


Central Michigan


Charlotte


Cincinnati


Clemson


Coastal Carolina


Colorado


Colorado State


Connecticut


Duke


East Carolina


Eastern Michigan


FAU


FIU


Florida


Florida State


Fresno State


Georgia


Georgia Southern


Georgia State


Georgia Tech


Hawaii


Houston


Illinois


Indiana


Iowa


Iowa State


Kansas


Kansas State


Kent State


Kentucky


Liberty


Louisiana


Louisiana Monroe


Louisiana Tech


Louisville


LSU


Marshall


Maryland


Memphis




Miami (Oh)


Michigan


Michigan State


Middle Tennessee


Minnesota


Mississippi State


Missouri


Navy


Nebraska


Nevada


New Mexico


New Mexico State


North Carolina


NC State


North Texas


Northern Illinois


Northwestern


Notre Dame


Ohio


Ohio State


Oklahoma


Oklahoma State


Old Dominion


Ole Miss


Oregon


Oregon State


Penn State


Pitt


Purdue


Rice


Rutgers


San Jose State


San Diego St.


SMU


South Carolina


South Alabama


Southern Miss


Stanford


Syracuse


TCU


Temple


Tennessee


Texas


Texas A&M


Texas State


Texas Tech


Toledo


Troy


Tulane


Tulsa


UAB


UCF


UCLA


UMass


UNLV


USC


USF


Utah


Utah State


UTEP
UTSA


Vanderbilt


Virginia


Virginia Tech


Wake Forest


Washington


Washington State


West Virginia


Western Kentucky


Western Michigan


Wisconsin


Wyoming
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