The Helmet Project is a website designed and maintained by Charles Arey of Atlanta, Georgia and using his illustrations as an "atlas" of gridiron football helmets since 1960. This year was chosen as a cut-off point as hard-shell helmets had fully replaced oboslete leather headgear by this point, plus there are very few color photographs that illustrate football helments from before then. Nickname: Hotlanta, The Big Peach, The ATL, A-Town Location in Fulton County in the state of Georgia Coordinates: Country United States State Georgia Counties Fulton, Dekalb Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Area    - City 343. ... Gridiron football is a term that refers to both American football and Canadian football. ... Group of men drilling in American football helmets A football helmet is a protective device used primarily in American football and Canadian football. ... See also: 1959 in sports, other events of 1960, 1961 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Junior Johnson won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Rex White Indianapolis 500 - Jim Rathmann USAC Racing - A.J. Foyt won the season championship Formula One Championship...

Leagues covered

THP began in 1999 covering NCAA college football, and has since expanded to cover the NAIA, National Football League and NFL Europe, Arena Football League and af2, and Canadian Interuniversity Sport. Defunct professional football leagues such as the WFL, USFL, and XFL have also been added. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy. ... NAIA is an acronym (or an initialism) that can refer to the following: National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics in the United States. ... The National Football League (NFL) is the largest professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities and regions. ... The NFL Europe League is an American football league which operates in Europe. ... The Arena Football League (AFL) sometimes referred to by fans as the Arena League was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. ... af2 (short for arenafootball2) is the name of the Arena Football Leagues minor league, which started play in 2000. ... CIS Logo Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) is the national governing body of university sport in Canada. ... WFL logo The World Football League was an American football league that played in 1974 and part of 1975. ... The United States Football League was a professional American football league that played three seasons between 1983 and 1985. ... The XFL was a professional American football league that played for only one season in 2001. ...

Not included are women's football leagues, minor indoor football leagues, semi-pro leagues, or high school football. Several similar websites have been created by fans of THP to cover these leagues. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Womens football can mean either a female version of American football or of football (soccer). ... Indoor football is a variation of American football with rules modified to make it suitable for play within basketball gymnasiums and, particularly, ice hockey arenas. ... High school football or prep(s) football is the most popular interscholastic sport at high schools in the United States and among the most popular in Canada after ice hockey. ...

The illustrations

All helmets are illustrated in 160x106 pixel GIF's. In all instances, the illustrations are in three-quarters profile of the left side of the helmet. This has created problems in instances where a team uses logos on the right side only (i.e. Pittsburgh Steelers). GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a bitmap image format that is widely used on the World Wide Web, both for still images and for animations. ... City Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Team colors Black and Gold Head Coach Bill Cowher Owner Dan Rooney General manager Kevin Colbert League/Conference affiliations National Football League (1933–present) Eastern Division (1933-1943; 1945-1949) Western Division (1944) American Conference (1950-1952) Eastern Conference (1953-1969) Century Division (1967-1969) American Football...

All helmets were drawn from a standard template, which shows a full facemask style in use since the 1980s. This design has been criticised for not correctly illustrating the style of face guards in use before then. Arey has responded that he is more interested in correctly illustrating the color of the facemask than its shape, which was often seen in several different configurations simultaneously depending on the equipment manufacturer as well as the player's position and personal preference. (Example: Quarterback Joe Theismann's use of the single bar facemask throughout his career, even though it was usually worn only by placekickers by this point.) Look up template in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... NFL quarterback Peyton Manning. ... Joseph Robert Theismann (born September 9, 1949 in New Brunswick, New Jersey,) is a former American football quarterback and current television football announcer for ESPN. He was born to an Austrian father, Joseph John Theismann, and a Hungarian mother, Olga Tobias, and was raised in South River, New Jersey. ... Placekicker is the title of the player in American and Canadian football who is responsible for the kicking duties of field goals, extra points, and, in many cases, kickoffs. ...

Facemask issues notwithstanding, Arey often requires photographic evidence, or preferrably a copy of the actual logo and stripe pattern, before adding a design to the website. Helmets that Arey is unable to illustrate are denoted by a blank helmet with a question mark or plus sign depending on how much information Arey requires to correctly illustrate it. In many instances, low-resolution scans of pictures illustrating helmet designs that Arey is unable to reproduce are included in a separate section. ? redirects here. ... The plus (+) and minus (−) signs are used universally to represent the operations of addition and subtraction, and have been extended to many other meanings, more or less analogous. ...

The Helmet Project in other media

Arey authorizes all non-commercial use of his artwork, as well as their use in college media kits and game programs. As such, Arey's illustrations are widely seen on football related websites and publications. [7] [8] [9] [10][11] Many Wikipedia pages pertaining to gridiron football make extensive use of them as well. Wikipedia is a multi-lingual, Web-based free content encyclopedia project. ...

Arey's artwork also was used for a special glossy section of the ESPN College Football Encyclopedia (ISBN 1401337031) though the designs were modified to illustrate appropriate face gear for the era. Arey's designs were also used on the front and back cover in unmodified form. ESPN (formerly an acronym for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ...

• The Helmet Project

• Here's using your head - 2001 article about the website from the Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)