By Bill Williamson
As we continue our Power Rankings series, it’s time to look beyond the player and examine what’s wrapped around his head.
Let’s blow the lid off this NFL helmet caper, shall we?
The NFL helmet has long been an obsession. Whether it’s the unmistakable star of the Dallas Cowboys, the beyond-the-gridiron meaning in Pittsburgh or the great helmet–change fiasco in San Francisco in the early 1990s, the NFL has been all about the helmet. After all, in football, we don’t look at faces, we look at logos.
Come on, who hasn’t spent a Saturday afternoon feeding countless quarters into a gumball machine full of worthless plastic all in the name of getting a complete set of NFL helmets?
So, we put our artistic eyes together (with the courtesy of professional help) and came up with our top 10 NFL helmets. Consensus? No, not even close. In a 2011 Power Rankings record, 26 lids collected votes. Eye of the beholder, folks.
(Read More:) http://espn.go.com/blog/afcwest/post/_/id/27488/power-rankings-top-10-nfl-helmets
The results:Ranking the Helmets1. Pittsburgh Steelers
2. Indianapolis Colts
3. Oakland Raiders
4. Green Bay Packers
5. San Diego Chargers
6. Dallas Cowboys
7. Minnesota Vikings
8. Cleveland Browns
9. Chicago Bears
10. Miami Dolphins
Whooooo hooooooo! We win again!
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