Answer: Garo Yepremian
Garabed Sarkis "Garo" Yepremian was a National Football League soccer style placekicker for four different teams from 1966 to 1981. In 1966, while kicking for the Detroit Lions, Garo was the last player to play without a facemask. He decided to add one after he was leveled by Green Bay Packer middle linebacker Ray Nitschke. Ouch!
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Answer: Los Angeles Rams
In 1948, Fred Gehrke, one of the Rams' halfbacks, hand-painted yellow ram horns on all the team's helmets. Gehrke was no amateur artist, because he was an industrial designer in the offseason. His trend setting art caught on fast, and by 1962 all but one NFL team sported art on the side of their helmet.
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Answer: Los Angeles Rams
Fred Gehrke is credited with applying the first logo to a helmet when he painted rams horns on his helmet in 1948. The horns were yellow on a blue shell, and the Rams' helmets have remained pretty much the same ever since, apart from a short span in the 1960s when the horns were white.
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Answer: 3
The New York Jets, The Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Oakland Raiders all had their team name written on the helmet. However, only New York had just their name while the other two also have pictorial designs.
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Answer: The vertically striped yellow and copper socks.
Bob Howsam, a successful minor league baseball owner, was awarded an AFL charter franchise on August 14, 1959. Severely limited financially, Howsam clothed his debut Broncos in discarded used uniforms from the defunct Copper Bowl in Tucson, Ariz. Making the uniforms particularly unusual were the vertically-striped socks that completed the Broncos' dress. If you've ever seen them, they're kind of comical.
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Answer: Cleveland Browns
Although they did place the player's uniform number on their helmets in the late 1950s and 1960s, the Browns still have no identifying marks on their helmets.
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Answer: Brown
The Broncos first uniforms were brown, and their first set of helmets were also this color, with the logo being the player's number in white. These helmets only lasted a couple of seasons, and since then the Broncos have had various colors and designs of helmets. In 2008, they wore navy blue helmets with a horse head logo in orange and white.
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Answer: 8
The Kansas City Chiefs, Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, New York Giants, San Francisco 49ers, and Tennessee Titans, all had initials. In addition, there's a little "M" on the helmet worn by the Miami Dolphin's dolphin, and, inside the bird's head, the Baltimore Ravens have a "B".
The Packers were the NFLs first example of corporate sponsorship. Their uniforms and equipment were purchased for them by the Indian Packaging Company, hence, their name.
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Answer: Frank Ryan
Ryan was quarterback of the Browns from 1962 to 1968. An excellent passer, he led the Browns to their most recent NFL championship in 1964.
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Answer: Philadelphia Eagles
For much of their history, the Eagles have sported a set of eagle's wings on their helmets.
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Answer: Cleveland Browns
The Browns' helmets are traditionally plain orange, with no logo whatsoever. Player numbers in brown briefly adorned the sides of their helmets in the late 1950s.
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Answer: 11
The Arizona Cardinals, Washington Redskins, New England Patriots, Carolina Panthers, Baltimore Ravens, Oakland Raiders, Denver Broncos, Jacksonville Jaguars, Houston Texans, and Seattle Seahawks. Tampa Bay had a skull on its flag.
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Answer: Two
Center Jim Otto wore double zero for much of his career although he did sport number 50 during his rookie season. During the 1970's Receiver Ken Burrough also wore 00. The number is no longer used after the NFL came out with a number standardization policy in 1973.
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Answer: Washington Redskins
Lombardi was about to take over the head coaching position in Washington, and was bringing many changes along with him. His helmet change only lasted two years.
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Answer: Oil Rig Derrick
The Oilers used the derrick logo from their debut season in the AFL in 1960. Early editions were of a white derrick on a light blue or silver shell, this was changed to a blue derrick on a white shell in 1975.
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Answer: 4
The Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions, Buffalo Bills, and Atlanta Falcons. Incidentally, the Miami Dolphins and the Oakland Raiders are the only NFL teams to have a picture of a helmet on their helmets - the dolphin is wearing one, as is the pirate.
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Answer: San Diego Chargers
In 1963 San Diego, California was voted an All American City.. To celebrate that fact a logo stating "All-American City San Diego" was plastered all across the city, including the fronts of the Chargers helmets.
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Answer: The Word "BENGALS"
Not very original with their original helmets, the Bengals kept the plain Jane look until 1981, when they swapped it for tiger stripes.
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Answer: Red
The falcon logo has been present since the Falcons debuted in the NFL in 1966, with the red helmets matching the color of their shirts. When the Falcons changed to wearing black shirts in 1990, so did the color of the helmet shells. In 2004, the red jerseys were reintroduced, but the helmet color remained unaltered.
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Answer: 3
The Buffalo Bills, Washington Redskins, and Kansas City Chiefs all had red helmets.
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Answer: 1960
The American Football League (AFL) started using players' names on jerseys in 1960. The National Football League (NFL) followed suit 10 years later in 1970. And since this quiz encompasses the old AFL, the answer is 1960.
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Answer: Buccaneer Bruce
In 1997, Buccanner Bruce was forced to walk the plank when the Bucs revamped their logo and uniforms. He has reappeared on occassion, during games when Tampa Bay wears its throwback uniforms.
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Answer: The Word "BENGALS"
The original owner of the Bengals was Paul Brown, former coach of the Cleveland Browns. Brown still owned the Browns' equipment, so early Bengals uniforms and helmets were quite similair to those of their Ohio rivals. In 1981, they decided the time was right to introduce unique uniforms of their own, so the famous tiger stripes were born.
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Answer: 2
San Francisco and New Orleans both had gold helmets. Green Bay had the only yellow one, and Cleveland the only brown.
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Answer: It was made of clear Plexiglas
Other players besides Graham used a clear Plexiglas facemask, but because of the hazards it presented when broken, the NFL banned them in 1959.
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Answer: Washington Redskins
From 1959 to 1964, the Redskins helmets was adorned with this rather peculiar graphic.
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Answer: Pewter
The new helmets featured a red pirate flag logo on a pewter background, and the new uniforms (red instead of the previous orange) seemed to have an immediate effect as the team made the playoffs in 1997, for the first time in 15 seasons.
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Answer: 1
The Bengals had a tiger stripe pattern that covers the helmet. They and they alone had this distinction. The horns of the St Louis Rams almost qualify, but they do not cross over the top of the helmet. Therefore, the horns count as really big symbols, not a helmet-covering pattern.
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Answer: New York 30-13
The Giants changed footwear at halftime and stormed back with 27 points in the 4th quarter to defeat the Chicago Bears 30-13.
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Answer: Black and gold
The Raiders held on to their black and gold color scheme until 1963, when they changed it to the familiar silver and black. They also added a Raider with crossed swords to their helmets that season.
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Answer: Blue
The team were originally called the Titans, and wore blue and gold uniforms. With a move from the Polo Grounds to brand new Shea Stadium imminent in 1963, a new name and look was sought. The green and white uniforms and helmets were born.
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Answer: 9
The Dallas Cowboys had a star. New Orleans had a fleur de lys, Tampa Bay had a pirate flag, Pittsburgh had a circle with diamonds (plus their name), Tennessee had a comet, Minnesota had viking horns, Philadelphia had eagle wings, San Diego had lightning bolts, Indianapolis has a horseshoe, and St Louis had ram horns.
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Answer: 1943
Although made standard equipment in 1943, the last player to go helmetless in the NFL was end Dick Plasman in 1940. Not even a leather one!
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Answer: Pittsburgh Steelers
The Steelers logo, similar to that of the American Iron and Steel Institute, had been used since 1962, and had always been worn on the right hand side of their helmets only.
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Answer: 1
The Cleveland Browns had a plain orange helmet.
The name of the team came from Paul Brown, not the color. He also founded the Bengals, and was one of the greatest coaches of all-time.
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Answer: Duluth Eskimos
Duluth, Minnesota hosted an NFL team starting in 1923. The original team name was the "Kellys" but for the 1926 season they were re-christened the "Eskimos". They suspended operations in 1927.
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Answer: Steers
For the first few months after its formation, the Dallas franchise was known as the "Steers". This was soon changed to "Rangers" and before the 1960 season, and it was finally settled on to name the team the "Cowboys".
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Answer: Dallas Texans
The Dallas Texans began play in the AFL in 1960, and wore red helmets with a map of Texas in white. A yellow star marked the location of the city of Dallas. The team moved to Kansas City in 1963 and became the Chiefs, with the helmets changing to red with a white arrowhead, the letters "KC" appearing in red inside the arrow.
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Answer: 5
The Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens, Atlanta Falcons, and Arizona Cardinals all had feathers. And while the Seattle Seahawks had an aboriginal bird's head which does not depict feathers, the Washington Redskins had several feathers in their design.
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