Over the previous few seasons, the NFL has leaned into the thought of alternate helmets.
The league first permitted a measure to permit for alternate helmets in 2021 — and this previous offseason, it expanded its stance to incorporate a 3rd helmet design.
The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs have but to reap the benefits of both measure, sticking with the mirrored “KC Arrowhead” on a crimson helmet with a white masks. Alternate uniforms and helmets have by no means been a precedence for proprietor, chairman and CEO Clark Hunt. He likes the truth that his workforce’s look honors the deep-rooted custom of the franchise.
“I believe the second or third yr, I introduced it up, and it was a swift, ‘No,’” smiled Chiefs president Mark Donovan on Friday, “so I kind of tabled it. We introduced it up once more three years in the past, and it wasn’t such a swift, ‘No.’ It was like, ‘OK, we are able to in all probability speak about it.’”
In 2009, the Chiefs paid tribute to their franchise’s first identify with throwback “Dallas Texans” uniforms once they performed the Dallas Cowboys. Nonetheless, whereas the dialog could also be developing a bit greater than it used to, it sounds just like the workforce is sustaining the identical perspective it all the time has.
“[We’re] fairly targeted on the place that we now have,” stated Donovan. “I believe we’re one in every of, if not the one [team] with the normal, haven’t modified it, don’t have another. We like that. Our gamers actually like our all white-on-white [uniforms], much more so than red-on-red now. In order that’s turn into kind of our go-to. However we’ll all the time take into account it.”
It will take a unprecedented thought to push the envelope.
“I believe is a excessive bar that’s going to should be crossed to really get it achieved, but it surely’s undoubtedly [a] dialog,” concluded Donovan. “I’m certain you guys (media members) get them, too, however I get helmet designs month-to-month.”
