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info from football wiki page to copyedit--> Inflatable padding[edit source] According to Andrew Tucker, football helmets adequately protected players from catastrophic brain injuries, but helmet manufacturers have been motivation to design helmets that decrease the risk of concussions. Vin Ferrara,[citation needed] a former Harvard quarterback, accidentally discovered a new way to cushion football helmets. One night, Ferrara was looking for an aspirin when he saw a squirt bottle in his medicine cabinet. As he pumped it and then punched it, he realized that the bottle withstood the blows of different forces. Ferrara immediately came up with the idea to encase football helmets with a number of inflatable pockets in order to cushion the blows a football player receives and reduce concussions.

added to the testing section: All football manufactoring companies today test their helmets for safety using the NOCSAE (National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment) drop test. This test uses a 13- pound dummy head full of sensors and a gelatin material. The head and helmet is dropped from a height of 60 at one of the six NOCSAE specified locations on the helmet. These locations include the front, rear, left side, right side, right boss, and left boss. The sensors in the dummy head measure the amount of force that the head experiences. The NOCSAE has certain regulations such as the peak severity index can never more than1200 SI. If a helmet fails to meet these requirements, they do not pass the NOCSAE drop test. Mgarmann (talk) 01:03, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

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I really enjoyed the experience of editing the wikipedia article. It helped me to understand how wikipedia works as a resource and I am far more apt to use it as a resource in the future. I really like how malleable the source is in that it can be constantly changing as the topics change. For instance, My group fixed the page about Football Helmets. This source was not very updated at all. Its most resent design for helmets was from 2007. My group made a point to add information about the new designs that have come up in the recent years. Furthermore, we thought the layout of the article was not very well organized. To fix this we moved around some of the information and deleted what we thought was not relevant. After the presentation from Ken Schopp one of the things I thought was particularly interesting from his presentation was the testing process that goes into making sure the helmet is safe for play. I did more research about the regulations and testing and added it to the section of the article that already had some limited information about the safety research that goes in to helmets today. Overall I think the wikipedia experience was really satisfying because I learned a lot and also feel like I really helped out by making an article better for the public. Mgarmann (talk) 01:57, 15 May 2017 (UTC)