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Gridiron football players wear various pieces of equipment for the protection of the body during the course of a football game. Basic equipment worn by most football players include a helmet, shoulder pads, gloves, shoes, and thigh and knee pads, a mouthguard, and a jockstrap or compression shorts with or without a protective cup.
Players with sight problems may wear glasses as long as there is no risk of them falling off or breaking and thereby becoming dangerous. Most players affected choose to wear contact lenses , although Dutch player Edgar Davids , unable to wear contact lenses due to glaucoma , was known for his distinctive wraparound goggles. [ 26 ]
Stephen Michael Gleason (born March 19, 1977) is an American former professional football player who played as a safety with the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Washington State Cougars .
Steve McMichael couldn’t make it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, so the ceremony came to him. Battling ALS and bedridden in the advanced stages of the neurological disease, the 66-year-old two ...
Gleason is an American documentary film which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.It covers five years in the life of the former New Orleans Saints football defensive back Steve Gleason, who has Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), sometimes known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a rare incurable neurodegenerative condition associated with the former New York Yankees baseball star Lou Gehrig ...
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Ed Martin (born 1962), American football player. [26] Steve McMichael (born 1957), American football player and professional wrestler. [27] Emanuel Morales (born 1987), Argentine footballer. [28] Premana Premadi (born 1964), Indonesian astronomer. [29] Tim Shaw (born 1984), American football player. [30] Ed Slater (born 1988), English rugby ...
Defensive backs and receivers have joined the position groups now required to wear the caps during all contact practices. The NFL has mandated the caps' use at practices for some players since 2022.