Classic Team Logo of the Day

A great team logo for Halloween, the logo of the Toronto Phantoms football team, who played 2 seasons in the Arena Football League, in 2001 and 2002. The team was moved from New England after failing there, and was the Arena League’s attempt to enter the Canadian market. They were owned by Rogers Communications, the same … Read More

With Halloween just around the corner, a good team logo to feature is this one, of a minor league baseball team that played in the Pioneer League from 2008 until 2011, the Casper Ghosts. Based in Casper, Wyoming, the team played as the Rockies from 2001 to 2007 before taking on the spooky new name, and … Read More

Logo of the Baltimore Clippers minor league hockey team, which played in the American Hockey League from 1962 until 1975. They were affiliated with the New York Rangers and later the Pittsburgh Penguins. The team disbanded when the Michigan Stags of the WHA relocated to Baltimore and became the Blades. A couple of notable Clipper … Read More

Logo of the San Francisco 49ers football team, from their days when they played in the old All America Football Conference. When the team began play in the AAFC in 1946, they were the first professional sports team to be based in the city. The 49ers didn’t have much success in the early years, but … Read More

Logo of the Philadelphia Liberty Belles football team, who played in the Independent Women’s Football League from 2001 until 2004, winning the league’s inaugural championship in 2001. A new, totally unrelated version of the Liberty Belles surfaced in 2009 in the Women’s Football Alliance, named in honor of the original team.

Logo of the Buffalo Bisons football team that played in the All America Football Conference in the 1946 season. The franchise played only the one season with the Bison nickname before changing to the Bills in 1947. The Bison roster included quarterback Al Dekdebrun, who owned a popular sporting goods store in the city after … Read More

Logo of the New York Yankees’ football team, a franchise that played in the All America Football Conference from 1946 until the league merged with the NFL in 1949. Unfortunately the Yanks weren’t one of the teams absorbed into the NFL, and their players were divided between the New York Giants and New York Bulldogs, … Read More

Logo of a team from the wild and wooly early days of the National Football League, the Oorang Indians. They were a traveling  team that played in the league in 1922 and 1923, and were named after the Oorang dog kennels in Larue, Ohio. The team was a novelty created by the kennel’s owner for … Read More

Logo of a baseball team from the old Negro Leagues, the Newark Eagles. The Eagles played in the Negro National League from 1936 until 1948, when the league disbanded due to Jackie Robinson’s successful integration into the major leagues. They have the distinction of being the first professional team with a female owner, Effa Manley, and … Read More

Logo of  another football team from the old defunct All America Football Conference, the Los Angeles Dons. Among the ownership group of the Dons were entertainers Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Their roster for their 4 years of existence, from 1946 until 1949, included longtime pro football kicker Ben Agajanian and Hall of Famer Len … Read More