Classic Team Logo of the Day

  Original logo of the New York Jets of the American Football League from 1963, when Sonny Werblin purchased the franchise and changed the name from the original “Titans”. Their inaugural season as the Jets was also their first under coach Weeb Ewbank, who had great success in Baltimore in the NFL but was fired and replaced by … Read More

Logo of the National Basketball Association’s Providence Steamrollers, who played in the league from 1946 until 1949. They were a charter member of the league when it still went by the name Basketball Association of America, but were a losing team and folded after the ’49 season. The club set a league record for least … Read More

Logo of one of major league baseball’s most storied franchises, the St. Louis Cardinals. This particular logo was used between 1956 and 1966. St. Louis has had a baseball team since the Brown Stockings played in 1882, and the Cardinals’ franchise has been in the National League since 1900. During the era when this logo … Read More

The original team logo of the National Hockey League’s Los Angeles Kings, who entered the league in 1967 in the first round of expansion in which 6 new teams were added to the “original six”. The club was owned by Jack Kent Cooke,  and their purple and gold color scheme matched that of the NBA … Read More

Logo of the National Football League’s Pittsburgh Steelers, used briefly in the early 1960s. Unlike today, when the Steelers are a model NFL franchise, having won six Super Bowls, the Steelers of the 1960s were usually a sad-sack losing team that wound up at or near the bottom of the Eastern Division standings. Their roster … Read More

Logo of the Houston Mavericks of the American Basketball Association, a charter member of the league who played in the ABA’s first 3 seasons, from 1967 until 1969. Houston Oilers owner Bud Adams was one of the Mavericks’ owners, and the team was competitive, led by Art Becker, Willie Somerset and DeWitt Menyard, but never drew … Read More

Logo of the minor league baseball Durham Bulls, who play in the International League. The Bulls existed as a Class A team for years but in 1988, following the release of the baseball comedy movie Bull Durham, starring Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon, the fictional team became famous, and a Triple-A team was placed in Durham in 1998 … Read More

This is the “alternate” logo of the NHL’s Calgary Flames, used on the team’s alternate “third” jerseys from 1998 until 2007. They were introduced in the 1998 season to signify the “Year of the Cowboy”, honoring the culture of one of Canada’s great Western cities. The franchise was moved to Calgary from Atlanta in 1980 and was immediately embraced … Read More

Logo of a team from the old World Football League, The Hawaiians. The team played 2 seasons in the WFL, 1974 and ’75, and oddly, were the only team in the league to play their games on Sundays, while the rest of the league schedule was played on Wednesday nights. A couple of notable players … Read More

Logo of the American Basketball Association’s Kentucky Colonels, who played in the ABA for all 9 years of the league’s existence,  from 1967 until 1976. They won more games than any other ABA team and had the league’s highest winning percentage. Despite their success, the Colonels were not absorbed into the NBA when the leagues … Read More