Gilman Gear holds a meeting at the NFL Combine for several NFL position groups during which time a vote is taken by the coaches to select one of their peers as Coach of the Year. The winner is awarded a special plague named for a legendary NFL Coach for each position. The 2023 NFL winners […]
He was an American original. To own that title one must have creative juices working constantly, be imaginative, ingenious and resourceful. He decidedly fit that description and then some! Martin (Marty) John Gilman was born in the Bozrahville section of Bozrah, one of seven children, in 1907, and was educated in a one room school […]
JUST about every piece of field equipment that will be used tonight during the Super Bowl at Reliant Stadium in Houston — the goalposts, sideline markers, first-down chains, pylons, kicking nets and more — was made in the village of Gilman in Bozrah. Gilman Gear has been an official supplier of equipment for the National […]
As Neil Gilman, president of a Bozrah sports equipment manufacturer, watched with alarm the spread of the coronavirus, he remembered his grandfather who made blankets for the U.S. Army during World War II. It motivated him to make a similar contribution in the fight against the pandemic. He turned his attention to a cut-and-sew operation […]
s the holiday season nears, countless businesses, big and small, continue to tackle the challenges of a worldwide supply chain crisis. Inflation rates and shipping costs have skyrocketed as demand outpaces supply, exacerbated by swelling labor shortages and contracting transportation capacities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Ports remain clogged with unloaded cargo freights. Consumers are projected […]
During the NFL meetings in Orlando, Fla., the league decided to add five feet to the field goal uprights next season in order to make the process of determining whether or not a field goal went through the posts easier than before, with kickers booting the ball higher than in past years.
