Looking for www.helmet-depot.com

Presenting more behind-the-scenes insight into being your loyal and esteemed Commish. I was prepared, though not as well as I would have liked, for the change over from Tripod.com to our new Web site home. However, what I never saw coming was the disappearance of the helmet-depot.com Web site.

One day I was looking at new helmet logos for our new owners. The next day, the site was gone without a trace. No message, no error, no explanation. Just gone. Nothing but blank space. The site had hundreds of cool logos on football helmets, all them original -- meaning not taken from existing teams. I am afraid I have been unable to find another site like it. There are sites that list high school helmet logos from Tennessee, Texas and other states, even Illinois. I have been unable to find a site like helmet-depot.com.

The next best offering I have found is MG Helmets. But that site relies on reproductions of existing helmets. There are a few "concept" helmets, but nothing like helmet-depot. Our newest helmet logos for the Eggers, vb5ds and Posse come from that site. Mike Miazga wanted to dump his "Pigs Fly" logo and gave me a choice between a pair of old USFL helmets from the Oakland Invaders and single-season Pittsburgh Maulers. I went with the Maulers because of the working man image for Ham N Eggers.

New owner Joanna Terracciano was willing to go with a fish of some sort, and I found a cool shark logo from the Arena 2 league. Simo's old team name was the Posse. His revival was worthy enough of adding the original helmet design from the Posse's brief fling in the CFL. Simo, a Glen Ellyn native, now lives in Las Vegas.

The rest of the helmet designs come from the original helmet-depot.com. I think I was able to find logos that had something to do with the team name. Of course with DJ Wanberg's Bellagio Card Sharks, I didn't know whether to go with actual playing cards or a shark. I thought the Four Aces was more original.

If any of you come across a reason helmet-depot.com disappeared if you are surfing Fantasy Football Web sites, please drop me a note about them. I couldn't figure out how they made their original helmet logos, but they sure looked good to Dah Commish and perhaps other Commish's out there too.