Competition Committee proposals: end play when ball carrier's helmet comes off & sudden death overtime

[Mc2guy]

Originally Posted by saden1

WSJ had a great piece on head injuries last year.

One thing they could do, which I think would help a lot is to dispense with the notion of a reusable helmet.

Motorcycle helmets are built to withstand one hit. They are built to crush in order to absorb the impact and be replaced. Football helmets could be built in a similar way so that you play until you have a strong head strike, and then you replace the "guts" of the helmet...using the reusable outer shell.

This would work well since you could keep the material light and the shell would only have to last a game, not a season.