NFL approved alternate helmets today for teams wearing throwback uniforms starting in 2022, per league sources. This opens the door to the defending world-champion Bucs wearing the old white helmets with the orange swashbuckling Buccaneer as early as 2022.
The brown helmets that once accompanied the Green Bay Packers’ throwback uniforms can be worn again as soon as 2022.
According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the NFL has approved alternate helmets for teams wearing an alternate uniform beginning in 2022.
The Packers wore brown helmets to replicate old-school leather football helmets with their 1929 throwbacks during the 2010, 2011 and 2012 seasons.