{"id":33118,"date":"2022-06-02T03:55:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T03:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/atlanta-falcons-to-bring-back-iconic-red-helmets-for-one-game-this-season\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T03:55:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T03:55:22","slug":"atlanta-falcons-to-bring-back-iconic-red-helmets-for-one-game-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/atlanta-falcons-to-bring-back-iconic-red-helmets-for-one-game-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Falcons to bring back iconic red helmets for one game this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ATLANTA &#8211; Red helmets are coming back for the Atlanta Falcons &#8211; for at least one game this season.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2022\/0531\/r1019787_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The franchise announced the return of the iconic helmet on Wednesday night for the Falcons&#8217; Week 6 game against the San Francisco 49ers at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The red helmet &#8211; which will have a gray face mask along with a black Falcons crest logo with white trim &#8211; will be worn with the team&#8217;s throwback black jerseys with white numbers and red trim.  The helmet will also be similar to the team&#8217;s original, with a black stripe down the middle trimmed in white and gold.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons said in a release that this gold-streaked design was created to honor both of the major college programs in the state, the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0602%2Fr1020340_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0602%2Fr1020340_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0602%2Fr1020340_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0602%2Fr1020340_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\"><cite>Brandon Magnus \/ Atlanta Falcons<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;Can&#8217;t wait to put this one on,&#8221; Falcons cornerback AJ Terrell, who grew up in Atlanta, said in a video released by the team.  &#8220;Definitely, like, looking at all the throwback uniforms, this one always comes to mind. It&#8217;s very rare seeing a red helmet with the gold stripe down the middle so I can&#8217;t wait to put this one on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Terrell was so excited about the helmet that he said he wanted to keep the one he modeled for the team&#8217;s social media feeds and website instead of giving it back.  He had already started imagining putting his visor on the helmet to complete his look di lui.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta can wear these helmets again because of a change in NFL policy in 2021 allowing for a second piece of headgear to be worn this season.  The Falcons reintroduced the red helmets with this uniform in 2009 and wore them twice per season until 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8211; Red helmets are coming back for the Atlanta Falcons &#8211; for at least one game this season. 1 Related The franchise announced the return of the iconic helmet on Wednesday night for the Falcons&#8217; Week 6 game against the San Francisco 49ers at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The red helmet &#8211; which will have a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/atlanta-falcons-to-bring-back-iconic-red-helmets-for-one-game-this-season\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atlanta Falcons to bring back iconic red helmets for one game this season<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[16070,2367,1119,1752,307],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2022\/0602\/r1020343_1296x729_16-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}