MONTROSE, MI – The football team at Montrose is taking an extra precaution this season to try and keep its players and opponents safe.
In addition to the usual COVID-19 protocol – temperature checks before every workout, masks for coaches, daily questionnaires – the Rams have thin plastic shields on the front of their helmets to try and prevent any potential problems with the coronavirus.
The plastic shield is attached to facemask and covers the bottom half of the helmet. The top half is open to allow air into the helmet.
Any saliva that is expelled will be caught by the plastic shield, which also deflects any oxygen expelled by the player down toward the feet.
Montrose coach Dennis Reinhart calls it a “spit guard.”
Reinhart reached out to former Rams player Steve Dean at Addix Custom Team Gear in Lowell to inquire if the company had cloth neck gaiters that would help keep the players safer.
“He says, ‘I got you one better. It’s a prototype and I want you to try them. Try it on, see what you think and we’ll make adjustments,’” Reinhart said.
So they met last Friday, Dean provided Reinhart with 40 of the prototype shields and the varsity players have been wearing them all week. More are on order for the junior varsity players.
Reinhart said Montrose is the first team that has tried the new shields, which are so thin they weigh next to nothing. Reinhart said they can be sanitized after every practice.
“I’ve had a lot of coaches who caught wind of it call me, ‘What do you think of it? How are they?‘” Reinhart said. “We’re playing Clarkston Everett in the opener if we’re playing.
“(Everett’s coach) just texted me yesterday and we were talking and then I showed him what we got. ‘Oh my God. Give me the contact. I want some.’”
To test out the shields, Reinhart had one of his players put on a helmet and blow into a tissue that was in front of the facemask. The tissue blew away from the helmet as you might expect.
But when they tried the same experiment with the plastic shield on the helmet, the bottom of the tissue blew down toward the player’s feet and then back into the helmet.
“Obviously, nothing is going forward,” Reinhart said. “Linemen are banging, grunting and groaning. There’s slobber going around but it ain’t going out. Anything is better than nothing.
“I’m hoping they help.”
Reinhart said Addix plans to sell the shields.
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