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These Throwback NFL Cat Logos Will Blow Your Mind

Will one of these cats make it to the Super Bowl?

NFL logos are big business because those trademarks adorn merchandise of all kinds. The jerseys, hats, T-shirts, mugs, and anything else that the marketing savants can think of will wind up on something – anything.

Below we are going to take a quick peek at four throwbacks in the feline family of the NFL. Some of them may surprise you!

Cincinnati Bengals fans during the game against the Minnesota Vikings at Paul Brown Stadium on September 12, 2021
Cincinnati Bengals fans during the game against the Minnesota Vikings at Paul Brown Stadium on September 12, 2021 | Andy lyons/getty images/afp

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Jacksonville Jaguars

Alliteration never hurts when naming a team which is one reason the Jacksonville Jaguars aren’t the Jacksonville Snow Leopards. But as for their logo, we can see only one slight change over the 25-plus years they’ve been in the league.

The new version doesn’t look appreciably different than the old one but it’s unquestionably a step up. The old logo looks like it was drawn by the owner’s teenage daughter whose artistic abilities are only eclipsed by her father’s delusions.

This cat looks less menacing than it does comical – yawning not snarling. I’m not sure what’s on its head but the oblong specs look like a new strain of bacteria you’d see under a microscope.

— Chandler Taylor (@Cambodianboi) February 6, 2013

Cincinnati Bengals

The Bengals logo has gone through about eight iterations that I can count but the most hilarious is the first, circa 1968. I realize it was the Woodstock era and everyone was makin’ love and gettin’ high but what I didn’t know was that Tony the Tiger’s step-brother was a meth-head from the Queen City.

Carolina Panthers

The Panthers enteredthe NFL in 1995, the same year as the Jaguars. Apparently, the artistic genius who created the Jags’ logo was having a 2-for-1 special, and as we know, the Panthers’ ownership is nothing if not frugal. In 28 years, they went from this (old logo) to this (new logo).

I’d love to know how that conversation went when the “artist” unveiled the new, aerodynamic, avant-garde, design to the suits in charge of capturing the ferocity of this franchise. Do you think everyone stood in awkward silence before the wife’s owner walked in and said, “Oh, I love what you did, Reynard!”

That was the ice-breaker needed to get everyone on board with this captivating masterpiece. The suits all nodded approvingly, the beret nearly fell off Reynard’s head as he basked in her approval, and the Panthers finally had a 21st-century design that would win them as many Super Bowls as the old one had. Same look – same results.

Detroit Lions

Roar. Scared yet? The only thing more frightening than walking in downtown Detroit at night is the dumpster fire this franchise puts on the field year after year. Look, I understand this is 1934-1951 but this is the best they could do? Really? Do you see the look of terror on that cat’s face as he’s getting railed by the running back? This franchise has been doomed from the very beginning. Here’s the old logo vs new logo.

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