This isn’t a “team” logo, but with the NFL draft just concluded, I thought it would be interesting to feature a logo that I was surprised even existed – a logo for the 1995 expansion draft that stocked the two teams entering the league that year, the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars. Unlike in prior expansions, the league was generous with the new clubs in dispersing players from the existing teams, and also gave the two new teams the first two picks in the college draft. The generosity was mainly due to the huge “entry fees” the new cities paid to join the NFL. Both the Panthers and Jaguars parlayed the generosity into early success, as both qualified for their conference’s championship game by their third season.
Classic Team Logo of The Day
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May