UNC Charlotte's 49ers have unveiled the helmets for the opening season. Time to buckle up your chin straps, UNC Charlotte: The 49ers will introduce the school’s first football helmet design on ...

Friday Flashback: Most uniform changes evoke some kind of backlash, but the reaction when the 49ers' unveiled their awful new helmets 25 years ago was historic. Paul Lukas explains why.

Helmet designers have so far failed to account for a key cause of brain injury—the kinetic energy that travels through the head after an impact and makes the brain slosh inside the skull.