Who has the best-looking helmet in the NFL? Who has the worst?
The players may frequently change in the NFL, but the helmets stay the same.
Well, most of them. Today’s NFL helmets are a varied crop of designs, both old and new. Here’s how we think they shake down from No. 32 to No. 1.
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Dan Snyder did the right thing by moving on from the team’s old nickname. Now he has to do the right thing and move on from being NFL Alabama.
Poor Houston fans. The Oilers had a top-five helmet, but it was replaced by the Texans and a bull’s head on an acid trip.
The raven should look a lot scarier. This one looks like it’s waiting for you to drop your sandwich.
Switching from white to blue was an improvement, but not enough to vault it out of the bottom five. Still the worst logo in the league.
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There’s something here, but the teal tongue screams ’90s.
The Rams tried to modernize an old-school look with their latest design and it just didn’t work. Can’t have your cake and eat it, too.
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It’s been decades, but we still miss the red helmets.
The Panthers’ overall presentation is supremely underrated — maybe one of the best looks of any expansion-era team — but the helmets on their own are just average.
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Bring back Pat Patriot, you cowards!
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Every other helmet ranking probably has the Cowboys in the top five, but we’re brave enough to ask what the big deal is.
If the Patriots logo were a horse.
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Imagine having a helmet featuring a dolphin wearing a helmet … and thinking it needed to be changed.
We should like these helmets more than we do.
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The Niners kick off a little run here of teams with letters on their helmets. Let’s be honest. It’s hard to make those look all that cool.
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The Packers can’t do it.
Neither can the…
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