Football helmet

The Football Helmet is the headwear used by the Football Zombie. It's the 2nd strongest headwear and armor in the game, behind the Black Football Helmet. The Football Helmet can be taken away by a Magnet-shroom.

Overview
Absorbs 70 normal damage shots. Appearance changes upon absorption of 24 and 47 normal damage shots.

Strategy
For more strategy, see Football Zombie.

The Suburban Almanac advises the use of a Magnet-shroom to steal the helmet and make the render the zombie's maximum absorption to 10 peas of damage. The use of heavy damage plants, such as the Melon-pult, or movement restricting plants, such as the Snow Pea, Kernel-pult, and Winter Melon, are other options. In general, just pile tons of firepower onto it if these options are unavailable, or use an instant kill. Hypno-shrooms are also good against them in earlier levels if you have not obtained other Instant Kills. Spikeweeds and Spikerocks in front of a Wall-nut can heavily damage the Football Zombie as it approaches your plants. However, the Spikeweed or Spikerock will still hit the helmet first.

Trivia

 * In Fog levels in the DS/DSiWare version, sometimes there will be ravens carry them and throw them in the middle of the upper screen.