NFL: Microphones in players helmets?
817676
The speaker in the helmet is only used to call a play when the ball is dead. It is not used during live play...trust me, there is no time for a QB to listen to a coach during live play.
69248
As a Seahawk fan I'll tell you. The 12th man are all of the Seahawks fans. Go to their website and you'll notice that a 12th man banner flies between headline stories. A giant flag is flown from the top of the Space Needle. Last but not least, a 12th man flag is raised at the beginning of every home game. The fans in Seattle are the loudest in the NFL. Making opposing teams offenses make false starts during the regular season 24 times. When the Seahawks were still  in the King Dome. There was for a brief time a noise penalty for home teams fans that made to much noise. If a visiting offense couldn't hear their quarterbacks calls. The home team was penalized 10 yards and the fans had to calm down. That rule isn't in the NFL anymore. But, you can thank Seattle fans for starting it.
985844
My guess is that the "furrowed angry expression" is a result of the stress from playing the game of football rather than a result of wearing the helmet.
100254
I think the Seahawks and the Steelers and the Fans were all cheated by a biased officiating crew, for all the missed and bad calls. i was a football fan and now i am promoting letter writing to all sponsers of nfl activities to try to get the officiating problem solved... for ALL football fans. i don't want to take away the Steelers win ( congratz guys) but i want a obvious problem fixed. nuff said
173722
yes and no... the rule was "grand-fathered" into the league, so after the rule was initiated, the players (& officials) who were new to the league were required to wear helmets, while players and officials who were already in the league were given a choice. this wont happen, but if Gordie Howe decided to return, he wouldnt have to wear a helmet, while all others do
943844
they don't usually keep records for those kind of things, or at least not publically because most people wouldn't look up a record like that. to find out a record like that you would probably have to call the nfl record association and see iof they have it somewhere in archives
1035899
it sucks...people responded poorly to my question as well....I DON'T WANT OFFICIALS TO BE CALLED ON DURING THE GAME...let them make their bad calls..they're gonna do that anyway...but if they make a GAME deciding call and it is controversial...get the press conference and make them  defend it...and justify or apologize for the bad call...
57949
The Steelers are the only NFL team that puts their logo on only one side of the helmet (the right side). At first, it was a test to see how the logo appeared on their helmets, but its popularity led the team to leave it that way permanently. Hope this helps you out!
433390
The answers are correct.  Craig McTavish was the last player to not wear a helmet.  There were several players who didn't wear helmets after the rule change came in and they were allowed to continue due to a grandfather clause that allowed any player who did not wear a helmet before the rule change, could continue without one.  It was discouraged though, as it was a liability issue.
1013816
NFL.com would proably help some. Watching is proably the best help though. Refs are actually doing a decent job now of explaining penalties, if there is anything to explain. As long as you try to wait until after the play is done your man should be happy to try to help you understand what happened. The problem with trying to explain during the play is that things are devolping so hard to explain it all as it happens. Easier to explain if there is a replay so that you know what is going to happen. Would almost be best to kinda get a tape of a game and have him explain it as it goes along. That way there is no importance to the game itself, not live so not really interrupting it.
549605
Well guess what, the Browns don't have any either. Besides, they are a distraction to our longstanding tradition. As far as changing the helment design...If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Because of the lack of tradition in today's football, the game has been changed due to new driving force of the game...money! It's nice to see teams, such as the World Champion Pittsburgh Steelers to hold on to traditional values, because that what gives a team it's true identity. Our core of values is what makes Pittsburgh so easy to identify and respect. So I can speak for all the the diehards, don't change a thing!
765861
Well, maybe you should goto NFL.com and ask, since this is the FOOTBALL section youre asking this in......
740893
its a sound recorder to record the noises of the viscius hits and stuff in the nfl
111193
http://www.football.com/equipment/index.shtml
530979
http://www.mic-innovations.com/drivers.cfm
232586
No, not "make or break", but they could potentially AFFECT the career, degree of success and longevity of that career.  If a player (to a much lesser extent a coach) has a problem, depending on the level of interest that the public might have in knowing about that problem, the "assasination of character' a player most certainly would face (the media is like a pit-bull on a pork chop when it comes to trying to "scoop" each other) would not only affect the fans interest (and hence attitude, i.e. booing vs. cheering), but coaches, general mgrs., and owners become jaded - and many athletes are psychologically fragile (touchy/sensitive), and their performance could very well suffer.
973779
shouldnt be too had to find, it was on EVERY highlight of the game.\n\ncheck out NFL Network