The Houston-based company has been protecting football players at ... when the Douglas team suggested Brady try a new model of shoulder pads called the FF-17. The FF-17 pads are smaller and ...

HOUSTON — Before the crack of the pads, it’s the crafting of the shoulder pads by a Douglas Pads & Sports, a small Houston company, with a big stake in the game. “To the (best of ...

shoulder pads are nearly the same thing they were ten-to-fifteen years ago," says XTECH co-founder Bob Broderick. "The majority, including our top two competitors (Riddell and Douglas) rely on ...

The shoulder pads were first issued to him during his freshman year in 1995, and Brady was well into his third season wearing the "Douglas 25Ls" when cornerback Joejuan Williams, the Patriots ...

And we said we make football pads and they tried every way possible to discourage us and they said they'd talked to all kinds of shoulder-pad companies and no one wanted to use it." Broderick and ...