"The principal is simple: we want to get force away from the skull ... So in some ways it's a bad design," Knight said. Now with a wall full of patents to make his helmet, and more research ...

Except once. That was 25 years ago this month, when the San Francisco 49ers unveiled a helmet design that was so bad, and triggered such overwhelmingly negative fan response, that the team ...

Time to buckle up your chin straps, UNC Charlotte: The 49ers will introduce the school’s first football helmet design on Wednesday. Time to buckle up your chin straps, UNC Charlotte: The 49ers ...