Even if the NFL would be OK with that, the NFLPA (players union) would say hell no.

He got the same grace period as everybody else. It was last year. 

The information in the article is wrong, you dip. That’s what half the comments are pointing out.

They didn’t let it be grandfathered in. It’s not the model of helmet, it’s that it’s over 10 years old. 

I could swear Deadspin managed to get this right in previous articles about this story. 

TIL there are people who use Windows Store apps.

This article has inexplicably sent me down a Tampa Bay Rays rabbit hole where I have learned that the “Rays” in their name is “now meant to primarily refer to a burst of sunshine rather than a manta ray”

#ContractTheMarlins

You either die an Iverson or live long enough to see yourself become a Carter?

There were serious arguments over whether he or LeBron should be drafted first.

Tragically, it’s the failure to understand the basketball reasons why he lost his last basketball job that will probably account for his inability to land another one. Well, that plus the horrible defense.

I mean, you know she’d get a lawyer to ask on her behalf, right? Plus, the beekeeper’s hat as a fashion statement would be a grand inside joke for the woman who hastened the end of the Sterling era while dressed like a style-conscious welder.

Step 1: Pull a gun on someone so they fear for their life.

There are Air Force bases in Alaska, right?

Use this damn thing as a target for bombing practice. 

#ContractTheMarlins

The “Ty Cobb was a racist asshole” thing is a myth.

Let’s remember that EA expects people to pay $60 for this every year.

Children don’t count as competitors for the Darwin Award because for children a lack of common sense and poorly-developed self-preservation instinct is expected. They have an unfair advantage.

Taylor Lewan, sitting in the polygraph chair: “Will you unhook this thing already? I don’t deserve this kind of shabby treatment.”
Polygraph machine: *Bzzzzt*

Why is there a picture of Billy from Stranger Things atop this article?