Easy Drawings of Chicago Bears Cool Logos With the Letter J
Before the NFL season began, we at FTW ranked the logos of every NFL team from No. 1 to No. 32. But in the process of finding every current logo, we found some amazing logos that had been used in the past by NFL teams. This list ranks the 25 best of those historical logos. The only rules: The logo must have been officially used at some point in the history of a franchise and cannot be used in the present-day. (To be honest, only one or two of today's bland logos would have made the cut anyway.) All information and pictures via Chris Creamer's indispensable sportslogos.net.
1. Chicago Bears (1954-1973)
Most of the other logos on this list are well known, but I'd never seen this old Bears logo featuring a bear (of course) crawling on a football. The bear looks menacing enough, though I worry his claws might deflate the football a little bit, which brings us to the second-best logo in NFL history.
2. New England Patriots (1971-1992)
Pat Patriot is a great logo, even if it looks like he's getting ready to snap a medicine ball. But Mr. Patriot is made infinitely better because of the awful, hideous and embarrassing Flying Elvis logo with which he was replaced. That'd be like kicking Paul McCartney out of The Beatles for Chad Kroeger.
3. Houston Oilers (1980-1996)
Though Tennessee made the correct move in ditching the Oilers name when it got a franchise from Houston, the loss of the powder blue oil derrick was a tough blow to the NFL.
4. Cleveland Browns (1959-1969)
Back in 1948, the Browns were looking for a marketing opportunity to capitalize on the team's run of championships and eventually settled on a brownie elf to serve as a logo. Though no one really knows the creation story, everyone knows about its death. Cleveland villain Art Modell, who abandoned the city years later, didn't like the elf when he bought the team — odd, because he ended up being just as cartoonish — so he phased it out.
5. Dallas Cowboys (1960-1963)
The difference between the original Cowboys logo and the current one is a blue outline surrounding this same star.
6. Pittsburgh Steelers (1962-1968)
You know those guys in the famous "Lunch Atop A Skyscraper" photo? I thought those fellas were brave, but compared to this guys kicking a football on a steel beam, they're practically scaredy-cats.
7. Philadelphia Eagles (1948-1968)
Kelly green is the key, but the simplicity of the rest of the logo is beautiful. (Notice just how little white space there is in the drawing.)
8. Oakland Raiders (1963)
Can you imagine how much more the Raiders would be hated if they called themselves THE Oakland Raiders. But maybe it would have prevented THE Ohio State University from doing the same thing.
9. Baltimore Colts (1953-1960)
The font looks like one that would be used in the opening credits of a 1960s television show such asI Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched orThe Dick Van Dyke Show. I just love that the colt is exerting so much energy that his chin strap his failed him. And I also don't know what he plans to do with that ball when his front legs land.
10. New York Jets (1963)
What a novel concept. A jet in the Jets logo.
11. Buffalo Bills (1970-1973)
Too much red? There's no such thing.
12. New York Giants (1950-1955)
In the first year the Giants had a logo featuring a player throwing a forward pass, the team finished dead last in the NFL in passing. Its two quarterbacks had 81 completions, 12 touchdowns and 10 interceptions.
13. Houston Oilers (1961-1968)
For the first two years of the team's existence, the logo was just about the same as this, only the guy was wearing a cowboy hat instead of a hard hat, which is just dangerous, frankly. The cowboy boots get across the message just fine.
14. Cincinnati Bengals (1968-1969)
Tony the Tiger is freakin' out, man!
15. Denver Broncos (1962-1969)
This doesn't seem like the best way to ride a horse (especially with the cleats), which may explain the team's 32-77-3 record with this logo.
16. Green Bay Packers (1956-1961)
A quarterback wearing No. 41 throwing a football overlapping the state of Wisconsin which is overlapped by a gold football. What's not to love?
17. Washington Redskins (1965-1969)
I honestly think if Dan Synder had agreed to change the logo back to this spear before the latest Redskins name controversy hit its crescendo, he may have been able to keep his team's name. Now, it's only a matter of time.
18. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1976-1996)
Up until a few minutes ago, I always thought Bucco Bruce was winking, like some sort of plundering Lothario. But now I'm thinking he's either missing his eye patch, dealing with scurvy or both.
19. Miami Dolphins (1974-1989)
We'll miss you, Snowflake.
20. San Francisco 49ers (1946-1967)
Did gold prospectors wear plaid plants, look like Soda Popinski, double-fist with Colt .31s, randomly shoot guns in the ground and dance around like a kindergartner who has to use the restroom? Shouldn't they be, you know, digging for gold?
21. New York Giants (1976-1999)
Seeing this logo evokes memories of early-evening NFC East battles on the Astroturf at Giants Stadium, with Pat Summerall and John Madden on the call talking about Bill Parcells, Joe Gibbs, Tom Landry, Buddy Ryan and howMurder, She Wrote was coming up after60 Minutes, except on the west coast.
22. Denver Broncos (1970-1992)
The same thing above, only with the AFC West in daylight, John Elway under center, Mile High Stadium, a booth of Dick Enberg, Don Criqui and Merlin Olsen and The Magical World of Disneygetting pushed back from its 7 p.m. ET start time.
23. Kansas City Chiefs (1970-1971)
This could only be a relic of the early 1970s and, of course, would never go over today. But this is basically a copy of the logo the Chiefs had when they were the Dallas Texans, only the running cowboy was replace by a Native American. What's fascinating about is that six states are in the background — Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa and Arkansas — almost like the Chiefs are laying claim to the plains states. It didn't really work though; the Cowboys became Arkansas and Oklahoma's team, Iowa is a mish-mash of fanbases and Nebraska tends to be Broncos country. Rooting for the Chiefs (and Royals), however, seems to be the only thing Kansas and Missouri can agree upon.
24. Chicago Cardinals (1920-1934)
The modern Bears logo is inspired by the old Cards' logo, which cleverly and cleanly had another C tucked inside. Simple and classy. Nothing wrong with that.
25. Boston Patriots (1960)
I had never seen this before and asked two huge Pats fans and they hadn't either. This was used only in the franchise's first year, back when they were the Boston Patriots. It's just a Revolutionary War tri-quarter hat but it's pretty awesome, right?
Source: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/09/best-logos-in-nfl-history-chicago-bears-browns-elf-pat-patriot-bucco-bruce
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