For everyone who loved the Retired Baseball Logo Showcase we did a few months back, here’s the NFL version to celebrate the beginning of pre-season this weekend! Go G-MEN!
The funny thing about American Football is that the major league (NFL) has much less history than baseball does. The modern Superbowl era (where the two competing leagues joined together) happened in the 1970s so that means even though they have been around since the 1920s — their branding and marketing never had a real silver age like baseball.
However, there are some fascinating decisions teams made and of course some cities made some genius moves. In this article you expect to see a retrospective of classic NFL logos augmented by some interesting alternate logos and recent logos for comparison.
Arizona Cardinals
Atlanta Falcons
Buffalo Bills
Baltimore Ravens
Carolina Panthers
Chicago Bears
Cincinnati Bengals
Cleveland Browns
Denver Broncos
Detroit Lions
The Kitty Cats actually just revamped this logo into the one below this year!
Green Bay Packers
Kansas City Chiefs
Jacksonville Jaguars
Louisiana Saints
Miami Dolphins
new England Patriots
New York Giants
If I found gear for this logo, I’d snatch it up in a heartbeat. It’s one of those “it’s so bad it’s good” deals for me.
It looks dated for sure but this logo is actually used on occasion to this day.
The great organization that is the New York Giants revived this logo from their past sometime in the 1990s. Even though it has not been updated much since the 50s-60s, it stands up very well.
New York Jets
This looks like a dolphin if you squint a little.
Philadelphia Eagles
Pittsburg Steelers
San Diego Chargers
San Francisco 49ers
Seattle Seahawks
St. Louis Rams
Tampa bay Buccaneers
Washington Redskins
Tennessee Titans / Houston Oilers
The Oilers were moved to Tennessee and left this awesome oil tower behind as well as the fanbase.
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I like the ones like Detriot where they’ve just subtlety updated the old logo.
Nice collection
Give it up for Baltimore Ravens. All logos look amazing
Yeah, a “refresh was definitely the way to go. Too bad they stink… for now.
I kind of like the direction they winded up going with (Raven head) because unfortunately the crest they sometimes use looks too much like Harry Potter merchandise unfortunately.
Interesting.
Love throwback logos and jerseys! The “new” Jets logo is actually a redesign of an old one. They changed the font a little and darkened the green a little.
Great article!
Extra Blog!
so THATS what a 49er is…
I think he actually looks kind of rad…
I find it pretty interesting that almost all of the updates got sleeker and angrier/ more aggressive.
Kind of like sports fans… minus the ’sleeker’ part.
Where are the Colts Logo ?
I didn’t include it because it has basically never changed.