Classic NFL Logos – Instant Replay

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:07:20 +0000

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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Did I leave your team out? Superbowl predictions? Let me know in comments!

10 Beautiful Antique Toy Ads

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:11:31 +0000

Some of the most amazingly intricate wood and metal art ever produced was for toys. To measure up to those amazing standards the catalog ads had to be of equal brilliance — and they were! There’s something truly brilliant about the intricate line-art and fascinating body copy from times gone by. Here are 10 awesome antique ads from the late 1800s – to early 1900s:

Toy Pistols

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That’s a bad motherf… shut yo’ mouth!

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Toy Animals

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Five down from the top left – I proclaim thee “crack dog”.

Erector Sets

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Sounds like there’s a joke in here somewhere, but this is a classy website…

Christmas Stockings