The logo is an Uncle Sam cap in the team colors with the feather in it also.
I did this as a reference to Yankee Doodle sticking a feather in his cap. The helmet is my favorite part, a glossy green look with a singular feather decal that is positioned to be sticking out from the yellow facemask. For the uniforms I ran with the kelly green and gold, and kept striping and accents minimal for this one. The team was pretty bad, but I liked their name and colors. Their color scheme was a homage to the Irish heritage that Boston is famous for. This team existed from 1944-1948 and played most of their home games at Fenway Park. It would’ve been cool to see another small-market team like Green Bay stick around. I wanted this uniform to have a classic feel to it. I stuck to the look of the 1927 uniform, I maintained the stripe pattern from their original socks and transferred it to the sleeves, solid yellow block numbers, and a Maroon helmet to match. The Pottsville Maroons are the true 1925 NFL Champions, but the NFL stripped their title and gave it to the Chicago (now Arizona) Cardinals, who have been cursed for almost 100 years now because of it. For the logo/helmet decal, I simply used a basic illustration of the capitol building. I borrowed the “W” and Senators wordmark from the multiple iterations of that team. They donned a simple navy and white get-up, but I added in red. Up first we have the Washington Senators, who had just lasted the 1921 season in the NFL (APFA at the time.) They were named after the Senators baseball club from D.C. I wanted to revive them and share my vision of how they would look had they have not folded. I took an interest in 14 of them particularly for their names and colors. You might have heard of some of the teams that used to play in the NFL such as the Dayton Triangles or Canton Bulldogs. Before the advent of television, the NFL was in its wild west phase of teams coming and going, leagues merging together, and overall instability.
NFL Defunct Franchises Resurrected: A Mini-seriesĭid you know there are more defunct NFL franchises in its century-long history than there are in the league today? There are 49 teams that are no longer with us that existed between the 1920’s and the 1950’s. I’ll have more with Jonah in the future too, but, for now, please enjoy … This is just a taste of what Jonah has done, and I’m pleased to bring this particular set of “what if they still played” concepts to you today. On top of that, he gives us a nice bit of a history lesson on those former teams in the process. I’m joined today by designer Jonah Ward who’s got something that’s both fun and is a bit of a history lesson all in one: Jonah has examined a huge number of defunct NFL teams (and there were a LOT of them) and has designed uniforms for teams which no longer exist (some for almost 100 years), extrapolating a modern take on the old school gear worn by teams of yore. A pleasant good morning to you, Uni Watch readers.
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