Armando Villarreal said there’s “a ton of weight” he feels to make the helmets as perfect as possible because of what Ty Jordan and Aaron Lowe meant to the Utes program. “I just hope everybody loves this helmet,” he said.
The custom helmets honoring the late Ty Jordan and Aaron Lowe that the Utah Utes football team will wear Saturday against USC.Longtime Utah Utes football fan Travis Vallejo stopped what he was doing when the football team revealed the helmets for Saturday’s game against No. 6 USC. He was so filled with emotion he that needed to regain his composure.depict airbrushed paintings of late Utes players Ty Jordan and Aaron Lowe, who died almost exactly a year apart from gunshot wounds.
Aside from Jordan and Lowe’s painted faces, the helmets have a white stripe with red and black trim down the middle of the helmet, and a No. 22 logo on the back that is shaped like a heart. The white, dotted background shown in the black part of the helmet corresponds to the Moment of Loudness the fans do after third quarters of football games, where they cheer and hold up their cell phone flashlights.
“I just hope everybody loves this helmet,” Villarreal said. “It’s one of those things that no matter how much time I put into it, it just doesn’t feel like it’s good enough for these two kids and the fans. But I hope that it’s good enough.”
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