Where are all the helmet pillows?

[Sierra Foothills]

 

[Old Coot]

8 hours ago, Dan Darragh said:

(Kinda reminds me of hockey back in the '60s when only one or two players wore helmets, and the Amerks had a goalie, Bobby Perrault, who didn't wear a mask or a helmet at all.  He's dead now.)

Gump Worseley was, I think, the last NFL goalie to play without a mask. He once took a shot by Bobby Hull in the forehead and lived to tell about it. Gump retired in the early '70s. 

[Mike in Horseheads]

@Figster ,,,a topic near and dear to you

[Dan Darragh]

6 hours ago, BearNorth said:

Ever seen some of the pictures of the old time Hockey Goalies, Gump Worsley, Jacques Plante, Terry Sawchuk [400 stitches to his face] before masks were mandatory.

Their faces look like jigsaw puzzles.

I once saw a game in Rochester when Bobby took a puck to the forehead that opened a gash, with about 3 minutes left in the first period, and the Amerks didn't have a healthy backup goalie.  So they took the intermission between periods right then, and Bobby went to the dressing room to get stitched up.  Out he came after the intermission, then they played the remainder of the first period and switched sides for the second. Bobby played the rest of the way. 

 

Here's a pic of Bobby.  Looked a little like Tony Soprano.

 

 

Once I went to a game in Rochester against Buffalo (the AHL Bisons, before the Sabres existed) and Ed Chadwick was the only goalie dressed for Buffalo.  Mid-game he got knocked out (hit his head on the post and of course no helmet) and the Bisons had to dress their stick boy who played the rest of the game and into overtime.  He was Porky Palmer, a name that will be familiar to long-time Sabres fans, because he was the equipment guy for decades.  It was the first game I ever went to when I was about 9 and my father and I laughed about Porky for the rest of Dad's life.

 

When Gerry Cheevers played for Rochester he also didn't wear any head protection but when he played for the Bruins he did wear a mask and famously marked every gash he didn't get on his face mask.

 

 

You're welcome for the history lesson. Now back to football.

Edited 16 minutes ago by Dan Darragh