Y.A. Tittle's helmet

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Apparently this helmet's in the HOF. I'm sure those of you who've made it to Canton have probably seen this before, but I thought this helmet looked really cool. Not being a football collector, there were a couple things that surprised me about it. The first thing being how badly the helmet was broken. A crack's one thing, but the shell looks like it broke into two pieces. I'm also surprised that someone decided to keep it. I'm glad they did, but if NFL clubs were anything like most MLB clubs at the time, cracked helmets were usually trashed, were they not?