While the NFL is frequently charged with placing financial considerations over everything else, and only paying lip service to the notion of safety when it is in their best interests (or that of their bank accounts’), they did implement a new offseason policy this year regarding the wearing of protective gear to help reduce the incidence of avoidable head injury.
As we’ve covered earlier this week on the site, it is now mandated that players were Guardian covers over their helmets, which are designed to limit impacts. While they are not exactly icons of trend-setting fashion, they do serve their purpose, and for that, most have been on board with it.