CFL Helmets Question

[PRJack]

@"Jakob7"

yes but also in hockey, high end players are paid to wear certain gear by the companies. and no they dont dictate what you can and cannnot wear. but if you can find me one player in the CFL not wearing a Ridell or Schutt helmet…and i doubt even you will find many wearing the latter, ill concede. im saying that pro teams do not pay the same individual price that you would for buying one set of pads, they just dont. we are pretty much agreeing to disagree so i hope there are no hard feelings between you and i.

no hard feelings at all. I just didn’t buy the idea that a) the team buys all the equipment no matter what, and b) there were very limited options.

Not too long ago (~3-5 years ago) several players were wearing BIKE helmets. Took me by surprise, but there they were.

While pro ‘teams’ may not pay full price if they buy in quantity, players who buy their own gear do. And plenty of guys do buy their own gear. IF, they want to get new gear and the team is willing to spring for that (and not have the gear remain as team property - part of many a contract to be sure) then that’s a different story.

Bottom line, not as simple as it looks from the surface.

[Paolo_X]

@"Jakob7"

yes but also in hockey, high end players are paid to wear certain gear by the companies. and no they dont dictate what you can and cannnot wear. but if you can find me one player in the CFL not wearing a Ridell or Schutt helmet…and i doubt even you will find many wearing the latter, ill concede. im saying that pro teams do not pay the same individual price that you would for buying one set of pads, they just dont. we are pretty much agreeing to disagree so i hope there are no hard feelings between you and i.

I wonder what older style helmet many of the players on Toronto’s offence (Lemon, Copeland, Boyd) and the Eskimos’ defence were wearing? I wonder if others noticed?