- On View
- Sports Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
- Manufactured by
- Riddell, American, founded 1929
- Worn by
- Smith, Bruce, American, born 1963
- Subject of
- Buffalo Bills, American, founded 1960
- Date
- 1990s
- Medium
- plastic, metal, padding, synthetic fiber, paint
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 10 × 9 1/2 × 13 3/4 in. (25.4 × 24.1 × 34.9 cm)
- Description
- A Buffalo Bills football helmet worn by Bruce Smith. The red Riddell helmet has a white face guard and white chin strap. Down the middle of the helmet is a blue stripe with two white stripes on either side. A white rectangle in the front center reads [Riddell] in red. On either side of the helmet is the Bills logo of a blue buffalo with red stripe, both bordered in white.
- On the lower left side of the back of the helmet there is a red, white, and blue [NFL] logo along with a peeling white [WARNING] sticker underneath with black text. There is a white “8” almost completely visible under the bottom right corner of the sticker. On the lower right side there is a clear [WARNING] sticker with white text. There is a smaller faded white sticker above it with black text that reads [XL]. There is a piece of white plastic in the bottom center of the helmet. It reads [BILLS] in blue. There are two small holes in the central navy stripe.
- The interior padding is white.
- Place used
- Buffalo, Erie County, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Jock Michael Smith Collection
- Classification
- Clothing - Sports Uniforms
- Type
- helmets
- sports uniforms
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Jock Michael Smith Collection
- Object number
- 2016.107.13ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




