Article #4 Oh My leather helmets?!?!

http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/07/in-football-leather-helmets-could-provide-a-better-defense-against-concussion/

At first reading the title of this article, “Why Leather Football Helmets Could Provide a Better Defense against Concussion” I thought this idea was kinda fuuny. How could a leather helmet possible protect against the collosions that football players enocunter? Funny right? Well after reading the article my perspective has changed alittle. Maybe this is a feasbile idea after all. To research this theory scientist placed a modern helmet vs. a leather helmet on a crash dummy. The data reading showed the scientist that leather helmets and modern helmets provide a “similar protectiveness profile.” Interestingly enough this data does make sense as the article states it could have to do with the stiffness of helmets. As modern helmets do not absorb impacts easily and leather helmets do absorb some energy therefore decreasing the impact of the hit. Of course the game of football cannot just go to leather helmets because players do need some hard forcefield on their head. But instead what the article projects is that modern helmets could possibly have a more softer shell. To me this idea of leather helmets and making modern helmets softer is weird but at the sametime it makes sense. Realistacally this plan will not be pursued because players are getting bigger, faster and stonger as years progress. Creating this softer shell to the moderen helmet could led to more serious head injuries such as a craked skull.