: Gehrke painted yellow Ram horns on his blue leather helmet as a joke, but his coach and owner loved it so much they had him paint the entire team's gear by hand.
For decades, helmets were plain, functional gear. That changed in 1948 with , a halfback for the Los Angeles Rams who also happened to be an art student. nfl helmet
The story begins with , a Navy football player whose doctor warned him that another hit to the head could lead to "instant insanity" or death. Determined to play in the 1893 Army-Navy game, Reeves visited a local shoemaker in Annapolis and commissioned a moleskin leather hat with earflaps. While primitive, it was the first documented use of head protection in football history. The Birth of the Iconic Look (1948) : Gehrke painted yellow Ram horns on his