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TEMPE, Ariz. -- When Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray first saw the trend of custom thigh pads spread through the NFL, he wasn't interested in being another player making a fashion statement.
He was a traditionalist of sorts, preferring the regular, plain, nondescript thigh pads that are a standard part of football uniforms and became required by the NFL in 2013.
Then something changed in Murray.
"I decided to give it a shot," Murray said.
He reached out to Brian Gudalis -- the owner of treDCAL, the company that makes those custom thigh pads -- through Instagram and asked if he could get a pair. They talked through a few ideas and settled on three: the No. 1, Murray's personal "KM" logo and the face of Bruce Lee. The first two wouldn't be a problem to produce, but Gudalis knew Lee's image was going to be difficult to pull off. Complex images like that don't always show clear enough through football pants, Gudalis said, but he tried anyway. It worked. The image of Lee can be seen clearly through the Cardinals' white pants, giving Murray some of the most striking thigh pads in a league full of them.
"I think it's a dope idea," Murray said. "You look around the league, everybody has got different designs, whether it be their own or whatever. I think it's pretty cool."
TEMPE, Ariz. -- When Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray first saw the trend of custom thigh pads spread through the NFL, he wasn't interested in being another player making a fashion statement.
He was a traditionalist of sorts, preferring the regular, plain, nondescript thigh pads that are a standard part of football uniforms and became required by the NFL in 2013.
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Then something changed in Murray.
"I decided to give it a shot," Murray said.
He reached out to Brian Gudalis -- the owner of treDCAL, the company that makes those custom thigh pads -- through Instagram and asked if he could get a pair. They talked through a few ideas and settled on three: the No. 1, Murray's personal "KM" logo and the face of Bruce Lee. The first two wouldn't be a problem to produce, but Gudalis knew Lee's image was going to be difficult to pull off. Complex images like that don't always show clear enough through football pants, Gudalis said, but he tried anyway. It worked. The image of Lee can be seen clearly through the Cardinals' white pants, giving Murray some of the most striking thigh pads in a league full of them.
"I think it's a dope idea," Murray said. "You look around the league, everybody has got different designs, whether it be their own or whatever. I think it's pretty cool."
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