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Obviously, I was having little fun and everybody is entitled to their own opinion.  But, yeah, I think some of it is driven by the success of the program.  Boston College has an old school look. I never hear them mentioned in best helmet or uniform discussion.  Syracuse for years had a plain orange helmet and even today has a classic, simple S on it.  Never lauded for its classic simplicity.  Same with Stanford.

In fact, there are a lot of schools with simple, singular letter/letters to represent the school on the helmet.  Georgia Tech, Indiana, Purdue, etc.  But which schools with a similar design were brought up?  Nebraska, Oklahoma, Georgia.

I never saw this response, but it deserves a response. I really hear your point and I think for me it's the color schemes. I really don't like the Boston College color scheme the same way i don't like it's peer scheme at FSU.  Same with Syracuse. I like the stanford color scheme, but not the S with the tree in it and they've tried to modernize the helmet with the metallic looking S in maroon. More of a fan of old school white with normal red S. 

I really understand my opinion is not popular, especially with the younger generation. For a non-college example: Every few years the Cleveland Browns talk about revamping the uniforms. The younger generation always talks about how they need to modernize and add metallic like colors. Personally, I prefer the 1950's style Browns uniforms. I think we can all agree the browns have been awful for most of the last 25 years so it can't be solely based on the success. This is coming from a person that thinks the uniform of the 1930's & 40's yankees are the best baseball uniforms ever worn. I'm just old school with uni's in general, but I may be the rarity there as I think there's certainly plenty that view it based on success of the program. 

On the topic of generic cookie cutter helmets, I was looking at the WAC helmets... Three teams in the same division with the exact same concept.

For me it's not about the W/L record, it's about consistency of wear/use.

I do like tradition.  When did helmets start being recognizably different?  The old photos just show bland unmarked helmets.  Looks like maybe pro helmets led the way after WW 2.   I recently suggested different color helmets for different positions, which I admit is an odd concept, but it's mine.

I do like tradition.  When did helmets start being recognizably different?  The old photos just show bland unmarked helmets.  Looks like maybe pro helmets led the way after WW 2.  I recently suggested different color helmets for different positions, which I admit is an odd concept, but it's mine.

The Cleveland Rams were the first team to put a logo on the side. 





The Cleveland Browns, ironically, are the final holdout. 

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The wing helmet was just due to painting of the natural stitching on the helmet. MSU did it from 1934 to 1946 (see below).  Chrisler continued to do it with his Princeton teams, and then popularized it at Michigan

That is interesting history about helmets.  I am contemplating what it was like playing tackle football with those above.  I know players were smaller and slower, but still...

They took far more repeated small blows to the head, but they did not have slot receivers running across the middle, getting blown up by linebackers

The wing helmet was just due to painting of the natural stitching on the helmet. MSU did it from 1934 to 1946 (see below).  Chrisler continued to do it with his Princeton teams, and then popularized it at Michigan

Ohio State wore a winged helmet before Michigan.Michigan played script Ohio before tOSU