Sorry, but I’m going to have to burst some bubbles.
On Monday afternoon a picture of a black football helmet started making the rounds on MSU Twitter, getting fans excited about the Spartans potentially donning a black helmet in the 2020 season. It happened during an Instagram takeover session with Andrew Kolpacki, MSU football’s head equipment manager.
During one of the videos you can see a few guys in the helmet area of the equipment room and one of them is holding a black helmet. A picture was taken and the internet was off with excitement. (Full disclosure: I also tweeted the picture out.)
Another screen shot was taken of a different section of the same video which showed a silver helmet sitting on the counter in the room.
Many folks were excited that this meant new helmets for their beloved Spartans and for them I have some bad news. Someone within the program has reached out to Spartans Wire and revealed that those black and silver helmets are not new helmets, instead they are simply concept helmets being shown to the equipment staff by a rep from Schuette, the helmet manufacturer.
I know. I’m sorry.
That these helmets aren’t specifically new black and/or silver helmets for MSU doesn’t mean that the Spartans will never wear a black helmet. In fact new coach Mel Tucker has told fans that he is in favor of trying out new uniform colors and combinations. It’s just that these helmets aren’t the ones they’ll be wearing.
Maybe one day we’ll get a black helmet and maybe one day we’ll get a Gruff Sparty helmet.
