Teams played for years in unadorned helmets as they struggled for the right fit, but as school spirit raged and rivalries grew, colleges and high schools began to hand paint their helmets to show team spirit. Initially, only colors were used, their headgear painted as a marker for quarterbacks when searching to find their receiver. In 1948 Fred Gehrke shook things up when he introduced the first logo, painting a proud design of the Rams on the side of his team's helmets.."It probably was a longshot, but I'm just putting in hard work, man, and I guess everything's starting to come together for me." Mathieu said his teammates are telling him to just do his job. "For the most part everybody's just telling me to play my role (and) everything's going to come to me," he said. "Don't get caught up in the media and all the hype that's going on right now, just go out there and keep doing what you're doing." When Arizona drafted Mathieu in the third round, it wa