Classic Team Logo of the Day

This is the helmet logo of the University of Buffalo Bulls, a Division I college football program that plays in the Mid-American Conference. The school has fielded a football team since 1894, although football was shut down for a seven year period in the 1970s. Although not considered much of a college powerhouse program, UB … Read More

The 2014 NFL season begins tonight with a match between the Green Bay Packers and defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks. Today’s featured team logo is of a previous pro football team from the Emerald City, the Seattle Rangers of the old Continental Football League. The league began play in 1965 to compete with the … Read More

This is the current logo of the Buffalo Bills football team, which is definitely a classic since it has been used since 1974, a year after the team moved into its’ “new” stadium in 1973. Designed by aerospace designer Stephens Wright, the new “charging buffalo” logo was supposed to signify a dynamic franchise moving forward, as opposed … Read More

This logo proved to be very difficult to find. It’s the original logo from the 1960s of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. After a lengthy search online, the only picture of this original logo that I could find is this one, cropped from the cardboard box of an old electric football … Read More

Although not technically a team logo, this is the logo of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. This year, Ray Guy became the first punter inducted into the Hall, and as he noted in his induction speech, for the first time the Hall has a complete “team”, so the timing to post … Read More

Logo of a former Arena Football League team, the Houston Thunderbears. The franchise existed from 1996 until 2001, starting out as the Texas Terror before changing names to the Thunderbears in 1998. The team was never a success, on the field or attendance-wise, and its’ owner, Leslie Alexander (who also owned the NBA Rockets) threw … Read More

Logo of a former minor league baseball team, the Piedmont Boll Weevils, who played in the South Atlantic League from 1996 until 2000. Players who spent part of their minor league careers with the Weevils include Marlon Byrd, Jimmy Rollins, Brett Myers and football player Rickey Williams, who played for the team in the late … Read More

Logo of a current National Basketball Association team, the New Orleans Pelicans. This franchise started out in 1988 in Charlotte as the Hornets, but relocated to New Orleans in 2002, keeping the “Hornets” nickname until this past season, when the name was changed to honor both the state bird – the Brown Pelican – and the … Read More

Logo of a professional hockey team that began in the old World Hockey Association, the Quebec Nordiques. The Nordiques played in the WHA until the league merged with the NHL, when they joined the established league, which set up a natural rivalry with the storied Montreal Canadiens. This logo was used during the team’s WHA … Read More

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 … Read More