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For the first time, Brebeuf has outfitted all of its players with the Riddell InSite Impact Response system. Each helmet is fitted with a five-zone sensor pad inside the liner that measures the severity of impact on hits to the helmet. When an impact or series of impacts exceeds a pre-determined threshold, Miller – or any trainer at a school using the system – receives an alert.
A season after one of its players sustained a severe head trauma, Siegel's football team will start this year as the first high school program in Middle Tennessee to use technology from Riddell to help monitor how much head impact its players sustain in practices and games. Siegel recently began using Riddell's InSite Response System, which monitors contact to the head. The technology includes multiple sensors that are inserted in a helmet. Those sensors give alerts when significant hits to the helmet are sustained.There are 18 high schools across the state that use the Riddell system and two college teams — Bethel and Cumberland — according to information from Riddell.
Larry Fitzgerald spoke as part of a program with equipment maker Riddell called “Riddell Smarter Football.” He’s always been a good spokesman for the game, and his longevity shows he’s a great example of how to lengthen a career.
Larry Fitzgerald, one of the league’s ambassadors and longest-tenured stars, has teamed with Riddell to spread the word about the helmet company’s latest technological innovations, as well as its Smarter Football campaign that rewards youth football leagues for employing progressive safety tactics on and off the field.
Riddell's Smarter Football program is a grassroots campaign that recognizes and rewards those who advance the sport through more progressive playing habits and approaches to the game. The aim of smarter football is to help teams bolster their commitment to safety, and Riddell provides equipment and technology that is designed to protect the player's health.
Riddell, the official protective equipment partner of USA Football, has launched the second season of its Smarter Football initiative in which the company will donate $100,000 in equipment grants to teams that show how they advance the game through smarter tactics on and off the field. Today’s game is changing, and so is the approach to athlete safety. The Smarter Football program encourages football communities across the nation to push toward advancing the sport we believe in and offer the best protection for its players.
Riddell is making available $100,000 in equipment grants to high school and youth football teams as part of their Smarter Football program.
Riddell set up a grant where programs could apply for the new gear. In total, Riddell donated $100,000 of new equipment in grants to various organizations around the country that showed the best ways they advance the idea of playing smart football. One such winner was the Juniata Thundercats, an organization based in the Philadelphia area that may offer a glimpse into a way of protecting football for the future.
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 grant a total of $100,000 worth of products to youth football programs across the United States. Entries for this season end July 31st.
Neighborhood youth football teams can get involved with the Riddell Smarter Football Program. It's a grass-roots program that recognizes local football teams who advance through a commitment to safer and more intelligent play on the field. The program has Riddell pledging $100,000 worth of products to teams that best articulate how an equipment grant strengthens their ability to implement a safer, smarter game on and off the field. During the inaugural year, Riddell received nearly 700 grant requests and awarded seven programs in markets across the country. One local recipient was the Juniata Thundercats.
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