Tom Brady Expresses His Thoughts Towards New Helmet

Antonio Brown doesn’t like the changes the league introduced regarding the headgear players use on the field. He even threatened to retire if not allowed to wear his good ol’ helmet. Well, Tom Brady doesn’t like his new helmet either.

Last year, the Patriots quarterback was informed that his favorite helmet model will be a thing of the past. Brady tried out the new helmets in the summer, and after two of New England’s first three losses, he put his old helmet back on his head. The second time he changed his headgear, he changed it for good. Brady’s old helmet helped him win a championship.

That won’t happen this season. Brady’s old Riddell helmet model is officially banned. The NFL is trying to change player safety rules, and there’s a team of doctors and scientists working on helmet technology.

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TB12 adapts to the change, and talked about his helmet during a private conversation with NBC Sports Boston’s Tom E. Curran.

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“I’ve been wearing the same thing for a long time. Been wearing the same thing for … you know, forever,” Brady said on Quick Slants The Podcast. “So you get used to one thing, one feel. This is a pound heavier. So it’s 25 percent heavier on your head, so it takes a lot of getting used to.”

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Brady wanted to make the helmet lighter, but couldn’t achieve that. There’s an ongoing process of adjustment.

“I mean, add 25 percent to everything. Add 25 percent to your pen, or 25 percent smaller keys on your keyboard, and you tell me how that feels,” Brady said to Curran. “It’s a little different.”

It’s interesting to note that Brady still wears the same set of shoulderpads he had in 1995.

“That was my first year at Michigan. So the fall of ’95, they gave me those. And then when I left college, I took them with me and then just used them here,” Brady said of his trusty Douglas pads.

These pads are Brady’s best friends, and they required some reconditioning.

“That’s the same plastic, and they definitely haven’t changed those. Same size.”