Fantasy Football mini-helmets 2

We are continuing to take a look at the Fantasy football helmets that were ordered over the summer. The two we have here were also ordered by Charlie in Georgia. I really liked the uniqueness of these two helmets and they were a lot of fun to do.

The first team we have here is called Roid Rage. We did these on a Dallas blue Schutt DNA shell with a navy blue facemask. We have a very muscular football player toting a football and a needle. We did Carolina Panther style tapered stripes. They were a light blue outlined in gray.





The next helmet we did was a team called Mindcryme. We did the helmet on a silver Schutt DNA shell with a black facemask; however, it is shown here on an older Bike mini-helmet shell with black facemask. There were three black 1/4" stripes on this helmet.





Again, we had a lot of fun doing these helmets and if you would like your Fantasy football team helmet made or if you have other football or baseball mini-helmet needs, please give us a call at (800) 576-9706! HelmetNation: When ordinary won't do!

Fantasy Football mini-helmets

As I have mentioned before, we get a lot of requests for fantasy football mini-helmets. Unfortunately, because we are producing only one helmet, it can be a bit expensive. However, for those souls who truly want to see their team's helmet, we really enjoy making their helmets. Fantasy helmets are often creative and a lot of fun. At HelmetNation, we have had two repeat fantasy football customers. We are going to take a look at some of the helmets we have done for these two customers in the next several posts.

Our first customer is Charlie who is from Georgia. Charlie is part of a strong Fantasy Football league and himself and the other members of his league have ordered their helmets. We have done a total of 8 different Fantasy helmets for Charlie.

Here we see two of the helmets we did for Charlie this summer. This team is called the Abyss Stars. We used a white Schutt DNA mini-helmet shell and gray facemask. The stripe has stars in it and the side logo is a slightly modified pentagon with stars above it.





The second team we did at this point was called the Aslans. Of course, some of you may remember that name from the popular books and movie called, "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" in which one of the characters is a Lion called Aslans. Again, we used a Schutt DNA shell, this time in columbia blue. The facemask was gray. There are 2 navy 1/4" stripes separated by a half inch.





If you want to get your Fantasy football team made into a mini-helmet, please contact us at (800) 576-9706.

Wedding Helmets

Some of the coolest helmets we worked on last year ended up being the first helmets of 2010. I was commissioned by a customer to do helmets to commemorate his wedding which he then gave to his groomsman. We worked together on the design. We started with a maroon Schutt DNA shell and a black facemask. The right side logo on the helmets were a black/gray/white penguin with a top hat logo he found and liked. The left side logo was the bride and grooms stylized cursive name in black with a white outline. Each helmet had a 1/2" black stripe flanked by a 1/4" white stripe with a little space letting the maroon show through between the stripes. The front bumper had each groomsman's cursive last name in black text on a white background. The rear bumper was the date of their wedding in black cursive text on a white background. These were really a lot of fun to do!





Congrats to the happy couple! We were proud to be a small part of your big day!

Wisconsin Fantasy Football League Helmets

We often get inquiries about doing Fantasy football helmets. However, usually, the inquiries are about doing one helmet for a guy's individual team that he has in a league every year. We really enjoy doing those helmets. However, this request was for a league logo helmet. We did these for the Wisconsin Fantasy Football League based in Fond du lac, WI. This was a fun helmet to put together. It was loosely based on the Miami Dolphins helmet. We used a white Schutt DNA shell with an orange facemask. The helmet features their league logo, which is a cow on a lime green cutout of the state of Wisconsin and the stylized letters WFFL over the top. They had three 1/2" stripes that were lime green - orange - lime green with a small white space in between the stripes. The front bumper was WFFL in orange text on a white background. They did not have a rear bumper.




If you run or are part of a Fantasy Football league, we would love to help you do your helmets. If you have a Fantasy Football team and want to get your teams helmet done, give us a call @ 800-576-9706. If you call now we can get them done in plenty of time to have for your Fantasy draft!

Syracuse Titans 5A football in Utah

It was great to receive a call from a local high school team here in Utah. These helmets are for the Syracuse Titans of Syracuse, Utah who made it to the 2nd round of the 5A State Playoffs where they lost a hard fought battle against the eventual State Champs. Their mini-helmets are a white Schutt DNA shell with a navy blue facemask. They have their bold Block S in navy blue on each side of the helmet and a 1/2" navy blue stripe. On their front bumpers was TITANS in navy text on a white background and their rear bumper was SYRACUSE TITANS in navy on white.




Good luck Titans in your 2010 Season!

SACS Lions Youth Football

Another helmet I really enjoyed doing was the SACS Lions Youth football team from Texas. Their helmets are a Schutt DNA Metallic Vegas Gold helmet with a gray facemask. We put their players last names and numbers on the right side of the helmet. Their lion logo is on the left side. They did not have any stripes but we did put the year date on the front bumper in maroon text on a white background and we put SACS Lions on the rear bumper in maroon text on a white background.





We know the Lions will roar again in 2010 and hope we will be able to do their mini-helmets again!

Fairfield Indians Youth Football

Now that the season is over, we will be posting a little less. I am going to be posting the last five helmets we did for 2009 spaced out over a couple of months. The first is the Fairfield Indians Youth Football team from Fairfield, Ohio. Their mini-helmets are a scarlet red Schutt Pro-Air II helmet with a white facemask. They have a stylized Indian head on the each side of the helmet and give their players tomahawk award stickers which we replicated by giving each player a sheet of award stickers to place how they wanted. I placed the award stickers on the helmet you see in the picture based on a the pictures of full-size helmets I was sent. We hope that Fairfield will be back next season!

2009 Season Final HelmetNation Top 25

Here is the final rankings for the 2009 season of college football. Congrats to the HelmetNation National Champions: the Boise State Broncos.

We will be posting a bowl season recap next week and our blogs will be happening about once a week for a bit.

1) Boise St. – Bowl game: Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Beat #4 TCU 17-10. As far as I am concerned, the Broncos are the National Champions. They beat Oregon and TCU. And I am fairly sure they would have beat Alabama. Of course that is anyone’s guess since they will never have a chance to play thanks to the crooksters of the BCS. However, they looked faster, meaner, and more disciplined than any other team I saw in the Bowl games. Oh yeah, all but 1 starter returns for 2010.

2) Alabama – Bowl game: BCS National Championship Game. Beat #5 Texas 37-21. This team got lucky that Colt McCoy got injured on the first series for Texas. McCoy plays and they most likely win. Alabama didn’t look well coached (fake punt, onsides later in game, etc) and they looked nervous for much of the first half. If not for equally poor coaching by Mack Brown, the Longhorns still might have won with a freshman QB.
3) Florida – Bowl game: AllState Sugar Bowl. Beat #9 Cincinnati 51-24. Even after all the hubbub about Coach Meyer, the Gators annihilated the Bearcats in a game that was never close. I think the game was more an indication of the Bearcats playing with their hearts ripped out than it was Florida domination. Although, I am sure that it being Tebow’s last game, also helped the Gators. Now begins life after Tebow.
4) TCU – Bowl game: Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Lost to #1 Boise St. 10-17. I honestly expected the Horned Frogs to beat the Broncos. You could still see how great their defense was in holding Boise St to just 17 points. I think the loss to Boise was more an indication of just how good the Broncos are rather than saying anyting about TCU.
5) Texas – Bowl game: BCS National Championship. Lost to #2 Alabama 21-37. I wasn’t pleased to see Texas in this game; however, it would have been much more interesting to see the game played with Colt McCoy at QB. I honestly believe that the Longhorns could have won the game had he played.

6) Ohio State – Bowl game: Rose Bowl. Beat #11 Oregon 26-17. Terrelle Pryor finally looked the part of the ballyhooed recruit he has been against Oregon. I will admit the Big 10 surprised me during bowl season with several victories I didn’t expect. This was one of them.
7) Iowa – Bowl game: Fedex Orange Bowl. Beat #12 Georgia Tech 24-14. The tough Hawkeye defense stymied the GT option game for most of the night. Iowa often plays well in bowl games and they did so here.
8) Nebraska – Bowl game: Pacific Life Holiday Bowl. Beat Arizona 33-0. Clearly the most dominant performance of the entire bowl season as the Huskers posted the first shutout in several ways; 1) first shutout in a bowl by a Big 12 team since the conference was formed, 2) first shutout in the history of the Holiday Bowl, and 3) first shutout in 46 bowl games for the Huskers. The offense showed some creativity with the use of freshman Rex Burkhead in the wildcat formation and the defense was dominant all the way around.

9) Cincinnati – Bowl game: AllState Sugar Bowl. Lost to Florida 24-51. Some might claim that Cincinnati didn’t deserve to be in this game. Even I haven’t been a Bearcat believer this season and their defense towards the end of the year wasn’t what it was to start the year. However, all that being said, this team had its heart ripped out when Brian Kelly left to take the Notre Dame job. Even their interim coach took the head job at Buffalo so all the players knew nobody was returning for them next season. They played like it. If Brian Kelly and staff are around for this bowl game, I think the result is much closer.
10) Virginia Tech – Bowl game: Chick-fil-A Bowl. Beat Tennessee 37-14. Virginia Tech clearly dominated every phase of this game. Ryan Williams was tough as usual.

11) Oregon – Bowl game: Rose Bowl. Lost to #6 Ohio St. 17-26. This was a surprising result. Ohio State was able to negate Oregon’s speed and contain their playmakers.
12) Georgia Tech – Bowl game: Fedex Orange Bowl. Lost to #7 Iowa 14-24. The YellowJackets had a tough time running up the middle against the stout Iowa D-line and their passing game wasn’t strong enough to loosen up the Hawkeyes defensively.
13) Brigham Young – Bowl game: Maaco Las Vegas Bowl. Beat Oregon State 44-20. Another surprising result as BYU completely shut down the Beavers and simply played faster and more aggressive than Oregon St.

14) Utah – Bowl game: San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl. Beat Cal 37-27. This game was not as close as the score. All Utah does is win bowl games (this is 9 in a row) and the future looks bright for the Utes with QB Jordan Wynn. After throwing an early pick-6, all he did was have a career best day in yards, etc.
15) Pittsburgh – Bowl game: Meineke Car Care Bowl. Beat North Carolina 19-17. Dion Lewis continued to impress as Pittsburgh won on a late FG with :52 sec left.
16) Penn State – Bowl game: Capital One Bowl. Beat #17 LSU 19-17. The Nittany Lions did just enough to beat the Tigers on a field that the groundskeepers should be embarrassed about.

17) LSU – Bowl game: Capital One Bowl. Lost to #16 Penn St. 17-19. The weather and field conditions completely negated the speed advantage the Tigers would have on an artificial turf. The game was sloppy and dominated by the defenses. I still believe if you play this game 10 times, LSU wins 7 of them.
18) Central Michigan – Bowl game: GMAC Bowl. Beat Troy 44-41. Dan LeFevour showed why he should get a shot at being drafted as he brought CMU back from a two score deficit late in the 4th Q and took his team to a victory in OT.
19) Texas Tech – Bowl game: Valero Alamo Bowl. Beat Michigan State 41-31. After an incredible week, filled with more distractions than one could imagine with TT firing Head Coach Mike Leach just days before the game, the Red Raiders played as a team under interim coach Ruffin McNeill (who I think should have gotten the head job that was given to Tommy Tuberville, who isn’t black) and rallied to beat the Spartans in a back and forth game.

20) Wisconsin - Bowl game: Champs Sports Bowl. Beat Miami 20-14. Miami played listless and Wisconsin came in fired up. It was shocking to see Wisconsin hang with Miami’s speed, but the Hurricanes were clearly outplayed.
21) USC – Bowl game: Emerald Bowl. Beat Boston College 24-13. Matt Barkley had one of his better games of the year in working steadily past a pesky BC team.
22) Navy – Bowl game: Texas Bowl. Beat Missouri 35-13. The Tigers had no answer for the Navy option game and inexplicably the Tigers refused to run the ball against Navy’s 2-down lineman defense. Navy played with heart and passion, just what we expect from our future military leaders. The option is beautiful when it is working.

23) Oklahoma – Bowl game: Brut Sun Bowl. Beat Stanford 31-27. Oklahoma wr Ryan Broyles went off for a career day against the Cardinal in a very close game. Oklahoma was able to salvage a down year with a nice bowl victory over a quality opponent.
24) Mississippi – Bowl game: AT&T Cotton Bowl. Beat Oklahoma State 21-7. The Rebels rode their all-purpose back Dexter McCluster to a win over an OSU team that finished their season very disappointingly.
25) Rutgers – Bowl game: St. Petersburg Bowl. Beat Central Florida 45-24. Rutgers looks like they could be good for a while as they rode some young freshman players to a nice bowl victory over the Golden Knights.