“Utilizing our protective helmet cover (ProTech) with proprietary soft shell technology, DYH’s mission is to reduce head trauma for all contact sports, military and industrial applications. DYH would like all players to play safe, play right, play on.” Get The Latest Football Tech News In Your Inbox! Since 1986, when Defend Your Head acquired Protective […]
The Dallas Cowboys are making the most of the technology available today through the use of drones in their training sessions, but not everyone saw this as a good idea. When asked “why?” we do something, a common response is to ask another question; “Why not?”, and the Q&A will usually stop there. In this […]
Golden 50 signs have blanketed San Francisco. Construction cranes surround Levi’s. With just 17 days to Super Bowl 50, the minds behind the biggest football game in history convened at Chat Sports’ Minds Behind the Game Wednesday night. The focus of their ninth thought leadership summit was on the brand and technology partners of SB50: the host […]
Forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu (who was played by Will Smith in the recent “Concussion” movie) first discovered that football players were susceptible to CTE. Initially, CTE was referred to as dementia pugilistica, or punch-drunk syndrome, and had only been diagnosed in boxers. After discovering CTE in former Pittsburgh Steelers’ Hall of Famer Mike Webster’s […]
With Will Smith’s movie Concussion bringing the issue of head trauma in professional football back into the national spotlight, and to a broader audience than ever before, many are wondering how American football can persist as a sport over time. The discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (a progressive degenerative disease, simply referred to as CTE) […]
