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Is Baseball Stealing from Football Now?

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Chris Colebank
April 01, 2025

THE STORY
College Baseball Team Steals Football Helmet to Break School Record?!

Oregon just set a new program record, exploding for 35 runs in a dominant win over Columbia and beating their previous record of 23.

This was a true team effort—twelve different Ducks scored, with eleven of them crossing home plate multiple times. And every time a teammate hit a home run, they celebrated in style—rocking the Oregon football helmet.

But, they aren’t the only baseball team doing this!

After going down a rabbit hole, I found several other programs that wear football helmets for home run celebrations and all kinds of funny headgear!

  • Pittsburgh players throw on a gold construction helmet, a nod to their blue-collar mindset.

  • Alabama goes with a disco helmet, because, well… why not?

  • And even in the MLB, teams are getting in on the action, putting on some wild hat combinations.

But it doesn’t even stop with hats!

The Red Socks have golden dumbbells, and the Pirates have a pirate sword.

It’s hard to have a favorite celebration with so many to choose from, especially since it’s become a sport-wide trend, but one mystery still remains—who actually started this tradition?

Chris Colebank