Riddell, a leading football equipment manufacturer, announced Wednesday the addition of Peyton Manning as a strategic business advisor and brand ambassador. The legendary quarterback will aid with product development, community and charitable initiatives, internal programming, and special projects directed by Riddell’s executive leaders. Manning will help amplify Riddell’s contributions in protective equipment innovation. “Peyton Manning is synonymous with football. […]
Through a new state-of-the-art 3D scanning process, football manufacturing company Riddell is hoping to help curb the reported increase in football-related concussions, especially in youth athletes, and continue to provide a heightened level of player safety. The Rosemont, Ill.-based company publicly debuted its new Precision-Fit protective helmet equipment this past weekend, a new technology that has already […]
Riddell recently announced they will have a second season of their Smarter Football initiative. Their hope is to make football safer by protecting players with better technology at the grassroots level. Hopeful participants can apply to prove they are dedicated to making safety a top priority. Riddell then provides coaches, teams and players with safer football technology and equipment. They will then […]
Safety in football has taken on unprecedented levels of scrutiny in recent times, and for good reason. Impacts of repeated blows to the head have proven to be extremely detrimental to a player’s long-term health and it has caused the NFL to re-evaluate its rules and many companies to try and develop more advanced football […]
Another week, and the NFL concussions saga continues to rage on. CTE, a degenerative brain condition, is maintaining its assault on ex-NFL players following their years of head trauma. The $1 billion concussion settlement between the NFL and approximately 20,000 former players is certainly well documented, but now helmet makers Riddell have fallen into the […]
