The New England Kinevals? American Patriators?
by JohnHannahRules on Nov 12, 2009 10:23 AM EST
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Noted graphic artist Ken Carbone took a shot at redesigning three of what he felt were the worst graphic designs on NFL helmets. Number three? The "Flying Elvis" of your New England Patriots. Now, I've never been a fan of the new design. I'm very partial to old Pat Patriot, ready to snap the ball and rip off your face. But Elvis is so significantly better than what this professional dreamed up that it makes me glad to have him. Peter Fonda would be quite at home in this, but man! What a horrible football helmet. Just horrible.
Follow the link to Fast Company and read the universal panning this design gets in the comments. (Including some valid insight into what being a patriot means up New England way.) I can't say that any idea I'd come up with would be an improvement over what we already have, but I goddamnguarantee you that it'd be a huge improvement over this...this...monstrosity.
via Fast Company, KSK
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I thought the re-designs for the Redskins and Bucs were pretty good
The Patriots helmet is just plain awful though, wtf were they thinking!? It looks like something Captain America would wear to a pick up football game.
they must have had
a uniform concept that they were visualizing to go along with this? It’s garish and awful either way, but even worse if you imagine it on the current navy or white jerseys.
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I'd draft him.
I’d put him in the Vrabel LB/TE mold and use him on both sides of the ball. Too ball the shield isn’t legal.
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by SlotMachinePlayer on Nov 12, 2009 11:21 AM EST up reply actions
he'd be a bargain
Given his deccelerated aging, ou could lock him up to a lifetime contract and be paying well under market value by his second decade given the inflation of player salaries!
and the Super-Soldier serum means he won't have to work out to stay buff.
Oh, yeah, let’s hope his chemical cocktail aren’t on the NFL’s controlled substance list.
Let’s see, Steroids, HGH, …. Nope, no Super-Soldier serum, we’re good.
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by SlotMachinePlayer on Nov 12, 2009 11:50 AM EST up reply actions
Call me ignorant...
but isn’t that Junior Seau in some weird costume?
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 12, 2009 5:01 PM EST up reply actions
Ignorant
Well, you asked for it.
If you traded the shield for a surfboard, I’d say yes.
My life has been a trivial pursuit. Trivia: where three roads meet.
The more you know, the more you know that you don't know.
by SlotMachinePlayer on Nov 12, 2009 5:06 PM EST up reply actions
And the whole lacking of aging thing...
I’m suspicious. Highly suspicious.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 12, 2009 5:12 PM EST up reply actions
All I can picture with that helmet
are comments about the receivers or QBs wearing them “seeing stars”
Keep the faith!
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