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Episode 136: University of Maryland Heat Stroke Scandal

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The History of the Plastic Football Helmet

Football is a sport that will kill you on a timeline long enough. There are many documented cases of players committing suicide or dying by the s word. Helmets weren't even mandatory until 1939 um Before then you'd have guys they would like make helmets out of leather. And then in 1940 Rydell patterns this plastic football helmet and All of a sudden oh we can hit way harder because we're protected. I did like these sort of like early plastic helmets with no face guard Uh like no sort of like chin support or anything. It's just like it's a dome. Well, we got a lot of complaints about the photography episode So Oh, but it wasn't good but the because

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