ARIZONA CARDINALS	ST. LOUIS RAMS	SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS

Comments

The Seattle Seahawks will have a new helmet design in 2012. The helmet shells are reported to be somewhat darker in color, the logo has been enlarged and altered slightly, and an unconventional stripe has been added to the design. For the sake of accuracy I would prefer to wait until some photographs of the new helmets taken under outdoor lighting conditions become available before attempting to add this one to the web site.

Historical Helmets

ARIZONA CARDINALS

1960; 1994 special	1960 - 2004	2005 -

The new 2005 logo updated the one which had been used by the team continuously since the second game of the 1960 season (though some very minor changes were made to the logo during this 45-year period).

The team was based in Chicago prior to 1960 and moved from Saint Louis to Phoenix following the 1987 season. For several seasons thereafter, the team went by the name Phoenix Cardinals.

ST. LOUIS RAMS

1964 - 1972	1950 - 1963; 1973 - 1980	1981 - 1999
		*see note 1 below

2000 -

The Rams were based in Cleveland, Ohio from 1937 through 1945 and in Los Angeles, California from 1946 through 1994. Some rather subtle changes were made to the shapes of the horn decals over the years, but I have not attempted to depict those changes here.

*1 This design was brought back for use during the following home games for the Rams: October 11, 2009 (vs Minnesota), December 20, 2009 (vs Houston), October 31, 2010 (vs Carolina), and October 30, 2011 (vs New Orleans).

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS

1960 - 1961	1962 - 1963	1964 - 1995; several games in the 2000s
		*see note 1 below

1996 - 2008	2009 -

*1 Upon locating the necessary information, I will probably add one or two more helmet images to cover the range of dates represented by this image. Specifically, the thickness of the black outline around the red oval logo may have changed sufficiently during this period to warrant a seperate image, and the black outline around the letters "SF" was apparently absent during the earlier years (the Mike Stanhope helmet site indicates that the outline was added "in the early to mid 1990s").

This design was brought back for the following 49ers home games: November 25, 2002 vs Philadelphia, October 30, 2005 vs Tampa Bay, November 5, 2006 vs Minnesota, September 10, 2007 vs Arizona, November 17, 2007 vs Saint Louis, October 26, 2008 vs Seattle, and December 28, 2008 vs Washington (and possibly additional games when its use was not reported to this web site).

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS

1976 - 1982	1983 - 2001	2002 - 2011

2012 -

The blue helmet introduced in 2002 was reported to have received 76.6% of the vote in a fan preference poll conducted by the team in which the other choice was a silver-shelled helmet design with the same logo.