Football helmet

The football helmet is the headwear used by Football Zombies. It is the second strongest headwear and armor in Plants vs. Zombies, the strongest being the black football helmet worn by the Giga-Football Zombie. The football helmet can be taken away by Magnet-shroom.

Overview
The football helmet absorbs 70 normal damage shots and its appearance changes upon absorbing of 24 and 47 normal damage shots.

Strategies

 * For more strategies, see Football Zombie.

The Suburban Almanac advises the use of a Magnet-shroom or Magnet Plant to steal the helmet and make the render the zombie's maximum absorption to ten peas of damage, or the health of a Zombie. The use of heavy damage plants, such as Melon-pult, or movement restricting plants, such as 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, Spikeweed or Spikerock will still hit the helmet first.

Trivia

 * In the Fog levels in the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSiWare versions of Plants vs. Zombies, ravens will sometimes carry them and throw them in the middle of the top screen.