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!
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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.
I think ppl are taking this personally & are picking a rival where as I am going purely based on why my eye says the worst & that is the Jacksonville Jaguar current logo!! The giant turquoise 👅is wild 😳. The old logos are superior they should go back 2 either of the first 2 pic.twitter.com/dWkyWujkxR
— Mr Phillip Walls (@Bears_N_Mavs) March 10, 2022
I think I could get used to the new logo. I was kinda hesitant at first. But it is pretty cool! @jaguars pic.twitter.com/tQfEZfHF
— 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.
The Bengals first logo 🔥#Bengals pic.twitter.com/bPkpYgkBBw
— Old-Time Buckets (@oldtimebuckets) March 5, 2020
Remember kids, our #Bengals are so named because Paul Brown wanted to pay homage to the original 1937 AFL club, who were named after a line of stoves after founder Hal Pennington saw this logo in his mother’s kitchen. Who Dey. pic.twitter.com/9Hmq21hTVW
— Cam Miller 🎥 (@cammillerfilms) January 21, 2023
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.
Nation Horrified By Carolina Panthers’ Disturbingly Graphic Logo Redesign https://t.co/U9MQ1y2brr pic.twitter.com/ptHvgzzrHK
— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 16, 2019
The Carolina Panthers playing in North Carolina but having a logo shaped like South Carolina gives me anxiety. pic.twitter.com/KZHZYmac1e
— Tom (@TPushic) August 29, 2019
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.
I really want us to use this #OnePride logo. Hey @Lions can you PLEASE do this for me? We could change his shirt to silver. Have him carrying a football (I think that’s a rugby ball) You could make an old school, throwback line of shirts to sell. Limited edition💙 pic.twitter.com/GJ6xZKomUZ
— Koula (@koulakarma) April 1, 2021