Every. Football helmet. Ever.

June 5, 2006 8:34 PM

'The Helmet Project web site is an attempt by its creator, a completely amateur graphic artist and a long-time fan of football at all levels, to create and maintain an on-line "catalog" or "atlas" of uniform-sized, accurate, and up-to-date images representing the football helmets worn by college football teams and teams from a few professional leagues in the United States and Canada.'
posted by T.D. Strange (15 comments total)

wow
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 8:43 PM on June 5, 2006

Holy crap, that's amazing.
posted by smackfu at 9:04 PM on June 5, 2006

posted by Heywood Mogroot at 9:17 PM on June 5, 2006

Love the 'ocd' tag. Nice touch. :)
posted by mediareport at 9:23 PM on June 5, 2006

I'm sorry, the Arena League has farm teams?!?
posted by aaronetc at 10:32 PM on June 5, 2006

I'm sorry, the Arena League has farm teams?!?

They're called the Pee-Wee League.

Thank you! I'll be here all week! Tip your servers!
posted by beaucoupkevin at 10:33 PM on June 5, 2006

They don't wear helmets in real football... ugh.
posted by catchmurray at 1:49 AM on June 6, 2006

Arena League and a2l helmet designs bother me. I think some of them are a little too complicated and detailed to show up well on a hemet that's being worn on a field. The logos tend to look better on a web site or printed media.

One thing I miss about the USFL is they had great helmet designs. The Breakers...the Stallions...the Generals...the Gamblers...the Bulls.

Too bad greed killed that league.

sigh.

OBTW, I looked for a small-college teams' helmet that has stripes on it like a wasp or yellowjacket and couldn't find it...does that ring a bell with anybody?
posted by pax digita at 2:37 AM on June 6, 2006

There's definitely a degree of OCD, or possibly autism, going on here. Check out this text from the front page:

This site was created by a person named Charles Arey whose email address you can find in the box at the top of this page; please address email regarding this site to the address given above rather than to NationalChamps.net.

That's not normal.
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:31 AM on June 6, 2006

How is that not normal? Someone is giving him free hosting and he doesn't want people to send email to them about the helmets.
posted by smackfu at 6:45 AM on June 6, 2006

It's not normal because people don't usually write about themselves in the third person or identify themselves as "a person named", or provide instructions for locating an email address instead of just giving it.
posted by mendel at 7:31 AM on June 6, 2006

They don't wear helmets in real football... ugh.

Real men play sports with thier hands.
posted by T.D. Strange at 8:05 AM on June 6, 2006

It's not normal because people don't usually write about themselves in the third person or identify themselves as "a person named", or provide instructions for locating an email address instead of just giving it.

That's Dr. Frist.

First of all people do occasionaly refer to themselves in the third person, and second of all listing email address is a great way to be spammed to death.
posted by delmoi at 8:48 AM on June 6, 2006

First of all people do occasionaly refer to themselves in the third person, and second of all listing email address is a great way to be spammed to death.

Er, it's already listed there. Instead of providing it in a context where it was useful, he described its container. Maybe he's just trying to sound stilted and weird on purpose, but people don't normally refer to themselves in the third person, and people don't normally make you go searching for information on a page based on the geometry of its container, and smackfu asked why it wasn't normal.
posted by mendel at 12:53 PM on June 6, 2006

It would be cool if he made a flash/javascript applet that displayed a quick slideshow of every helment image, one per second or something... That or a giant mosiac image of all of them on one page.
posted by Rhomboid at 5:02 PM on June 6, 2006