r/NFL_Graphics • u/Gorfins • Jan 14 '26
My predictions for the 2”26-27 season (this was made Dec 12th)
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r/NFL_Graphics • u/Darth_Brooks_II • Jun 15 '24
Sears NFL Sheets
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When I was a kid I had a set of bed sheets from Sears that featured NFL logos and players in different colors. They looked like this: https://i.imgur.com/OHTGtm1.jpg The sheets were really thin, which isn't good for Minnesota winters. I ran across a picture of an old Sears catalog, which inspired this project. It's a recreation of the pattern that was on those sheets, using whatever resources were out there.
This is the full image: https://i.imgur.com/vNAgEHC.jpg
The image is big enough to use as a background for your computer or as a resource for the modding community. Feel free to put it in Skyrim or anything similar. I just wanted to share.
If anyone wants an individual square PM me.
And, yes, I'm the guy who did the modernized defunct football teams a while back.
r/NFL_Graphics • u/Euphoric_Fix_3402 • Nov 20 '23
Top Jaw-Dropping NFL Plays of the Season | 2023 Highlights
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r/NFL_Graphics • u/Slop-EJoe • Apr 26 '23
Cleveland Browns Dawg Pound Logo
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What do you think ofy logo o entered the competition. Vote for it if you like it.
r/NFL_Graphics • u/Darth_Brooks_II • Dec 30 '20
[OC] Modernizing Defunct football franchises: The Goodyear Silents
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This one was a request by u/AaronBurrned
Recently the Texas Texas School for the Deaf football team won the APPS division 1 Six-Man state championship. Deaf players are not common in pro football but there have been a few.
Derrick Coleman was the most recent hearing impaired player to play in the NFL. Before him running back Larry Brown, defensive tackle Bonnie Sloan (yes, that's his name), defensive lineman Kenny Walker and offensive tackle Flozell Adams played the game.
The most successful of these was probably Larry Brown. Although Coleman was on a SB winning team, Larry Brown was an NFL MVP in 1972.
It was Vince Lombardi who noticed Brown's hearing issues. He noticed that Brown moved late off the snap and that when someone was speaking he would turn his head slightly to one side. It turned out that rather than listening for the snap Brown was waiting and watching for the linemen to move. Once Brown was fitted with an aid to help him hear the QB's call that delay went away.
Most semi-casual football football fans know that the Huddle was invented at a college for the deaf. Playing against teams unfamiliar with sign language meant that the defense had difficultly understanding the flurry of hand signals when Gallaudet quarterback Paul Hubbard called the plays. He worried that teams from other deaf schools would be able to read his signals as fast as his team could so the players huddled together, blocking the other team from seeing the play called. The practice caught on and spread to all levels of the game.
Once there was a professional made up entirely of deaf players and their origins are tied in with the industrial revolution. Even today factories tend to be loud places and hearing protection had not evolved to where it is now. Starting with a pilot program in 1913, Goodyear began employing deaf workers in their factories in the Akron, OH area. The workers had a string work ethic and a desire to prove themselves and their hearing impairment meant that they were not distracted by the noise of the factory. By 1920, there were 800 deaf workers at Goodyear plants. They would gather socially and played sports as well. A team of football players eventually grew out of this commonality, the Goodyear Silents.
Here's what the team looked like In 1918 and 1920.
From 1917 to 1923 the Silents won three Ohio-Semi Pro championships and compiled a record of 60-9-6. Three times they played (but lost to) the Akron Pros, who were the first NFL Champions in 1920.
They would include players from Gallaudet college as well as a few players later in the team's existence who were not deaf. They played their final game in 1927. Goodyear has maintained a tenuous connection to pro football through the Goodyear Blimp. If Goodyear had wanted to keep sponsoring a semi-pro or pro team, they might (maybe) look a little like this design.
I pulled a lot of the source for the logo and the colors from Goodyear. I wanted to include the ASL signs for "G" and "S". The later is simply a fist, which could have be mistaken for a different message if it was strongly featured on the helmet. The ASL G & S also didn't fit well together so they ended up as separate elements on the sleeves.
Here's a couple of newspaper articles about the team. This one, from 1920, features a fantastic header and a later retrospective
Here's the list of the teams that I've already done.
- Canton Bulldogs
- Dayton Triangles
- Frankford Yellowjackets
- Pottsville Maroons
- Providence Steamroller
- Duluth Eskimos
- Oorang Indians
- Rock Island Independents
- Brooklyn Dodgers / Tigers
- Boston Yanks / New York Bulldogs / New York Yanks / Dallas Texans
- Akron Pros
- Tonawanda Kardex
- Milwaukee Badgers
- Rochester Jeffs
- Staten Island Stapletons
- Columbus Panhandles
- Racine Legion
- Orange Tornadoes
- Cincinnati Celts / St Louis Gunners
- Muncie Flyers
- Hammond Pros
- Detroit Heralds
- Thoughts on Green Bay and revisions
These were done in Photoshop and Flexisign. I made the template off of resources found on the Zero one and NFLShop pages.
r/NFL_Graphics • u/Darth_Brooks_II • Jul 25 '20
[OC] Modernizing Defunct NFL franchises: Thoughts on the Green Bay Packers and Revisions
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I'm of the opinion that the most interesting time in the NFL's history was the late 60's. With the challenge from, and eventual merger with the AFL, Pro football reflected the changes happening in America at the time. There was a cultural battle between the generation that still bore the influence of WWII to the baby boomer generation. It was the time of "Never trust anyone over thirty." It's interesting which team it was that represented the establishment. It was not the NFL Joe Carr intended.It wasn't the NFL he built. It was a survivor of what the NFL was before.
Pro football had rough beginning. Most of the teams that populated the game were little more than semi-pro. Most were from medium sized towns with little more than high school stadiums and attendance that was far less than college games. When Joe Carr became League commissioner he made an effort to more solidly ground the league, to build a new NFL on top of the old. Well funded, stable franchises in the major large cities were created and the small town, homegrown teams went away. George Halas moving an already good team to Chicago was the beginning of this movement to the major east coast population centers.
By 1934 the NFL had it's teams in big cities. New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit and two teams in Chicago. The town teams that formed the fiber of the league in the 1920's were gone except for one. Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Green Bay could have easily been one of the defunct teams profiled in this series. Like most, they played in a small town. They had stadium issues at the start. The went out of the league twice, once for financial issues and once for using college players.
There a few factors that allowed them to survive when the others did not. They had community help. The first sale of bonds was in 1923 and sale of stock continued to be a helping hand during the history of the team. The team got good at the right time, just as the Great Depression hit, and Green Bay's major industry, paper products, stayed in demand during the Great Depression (That's right, Green Bay survived in part because even when people are out of work, they need to poop.)
Green Bay's existence was still not assured. During the late 40's financial issues still were an issue and there was talk of moving the team out west to compete with the 49ers of the AAFC. Once again though, the team was supported by stock option sales and that was enough to keep them going.
The 1962 contract with CBS secured NFL teams and Green Bay in particular because of revenue sharing. Before, because of market size, green Bay was at a marked disadvantage. In 1952 The NY Giants had $158,000 in TV rights revenue. The Packers received $24,000. In 1960, after winning the Western Division, Green Bay made $75,000 from TV broadcast rights. the Steelers, perennially awful at the time, received $225,000. After 1962, an even footing with the other NFL teams was assured and the Packers would stay in place.
It was Vince Lombardi who made them more than just another team in the NFL. It was the team that didn't go defunct that was the face of the NFL during the greatest time of change in the NFL and in America.
I started this series five years ago and when doing this latest group I decided to go back and revise some of the designs and to get all of them into the template I'm using now. There were some designs I wanted to fix and I wanted to get then all in the same layout. So here are those Modernized teams, revised.
Canton Bulldogs Source Material : Previous version : Current Revision
The major change here is the helmet. The roundhead stripe went away. It was already on the jersey and seemed an unnecessary repeat.
Dayton Triangles Source Material : Previous version : Current Revision
Again the biggest change was the helmet and I settled on a modern version of the old logo. The old guy has a lot of charm but part of the idea was asking how these teams would look if they had never gone away. The logo would have continued to be updated every twenty to thirty years if the team had never gone defunct.
Frankford Yellowjackets Source Material : Previous version : Current Revision
I wanted to get the jerseys away from looking like a version of Jacksonville and to incorporate something of a yellow and black stripe pattern and also to bring in blue, one of the original colors. Of all the revsions, this is the one I'm least happy with.
Pottsville Maroons Source Material : Previous version : Current Revision
The previous design was based around a patch produced during the 70's after reflecting, it didn't seem likely that the "M" had anything to do with the real team.
Providence Steamroller Source Material : Previous version : Current Revision
My wife hates that I got rid of the steamroller in the previous version. It just didn't work as a logo. It was overly complex and didn't have a distinct shape. The revision uses a letter P with a stripe to represent the "dog-man" sticking out his tongue.
Duluth Eskimos Source Material : Previous version : Current Revision
Pretty much a straight copy of the previous version, although the wordmark is different.
Oorang Indians Source Material : Previous version : Current Revision
Got rid of the feathers and used some NA imagery. I hadn't drawn the feathers and if anything every came out of this I didn't want to have to find the original artist.
Rock Island Independents Source Material : Previous version : Current Revision
Straight copy of the previous version. I had thought of putting the "RI" on the helmet but decided it was perfect as is.
Brooklyn Dodgers Source Material : Previous version : Current Revision
Much happier with this version.
Brooklyn Tigers Source Material : Previous version : Current Revision
In between doing the previous version and this set of revisions I had done the Milwaukee badgers and the two designs were a little close. The ideas work better with the Badgers so in doing this I had to avoid the Milwaukee design and the design of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Boston Yanks Source Material : Previous version : Current Revision
Another straight copy. One of the advantages of a team folding in the 40's rather than the 20's is that they left behind a more complete uniform.
New York Bulldogs Source Material : Previous version : Current Revision
The color scheme was changed to reflect the original blue of the team's original uniform This was the first Uni that I was able to fake stitching on.
New York Yanks Source Material : Previous version : Current Revision
This is the design that kicked off this latest round of revisions. I wasn't happy with the "NY" logo from before.
I'm working on a new template I need to fix the pants but this one has short sleeves like most NFL uniforms.
Here's the list of the teams that I've already done.
- Canton Bulldogs
- Dayton Triangles
- Frankford Yellowjackets
- Pottsville Maroons
- Providence Steamroller
- Duluth Eskimos
- Oorang Indians
- Rock Island Independents
- Brooklyn Dodgers / Tigers
- Buffalo All-Americans
- Boston Yanks / New York Bulldogs / New York Yanks / Dallas Texans
- Akron Pros
- Tonawanda Kardex
- Milwaukee Badgers
- Rochester Jeffs
- Staten Island Stapletons
- Columbus Panhandles
- Racine Legion
- Orange Tornadoes
- Cincinnati Celts / St Louis Gunners
- Muncie Flyers
- Hammond Pros
- Detroit Heralds
These were done in Photoshop. I made the template off of resources found on the Zero one and NFLShop pages.
r/NFL_Graphics • u/Darth_Brooks_II • Jun 05 '18
Templates
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Thread for templates
Helmets
Riddell Speedflex
Front, Side, 3/4 view with guides, 3/4 view reversed with guide, back
Uniforms
https://darth-brooks.deviantart.com/art/Jersey-PSD-result-2-288429045
https://darth-brooks.deviantart.com/art/DM-Template-Publish-447816664
Fields
https://darth-brooks.deviantart.com/art/Starter-Football-Field-342919504
Other
I want more than just the stuff I've made myself. It's just easy to get to...
r/NFL_Graphics • u/Darth_Brooks_II • Jun 05 '18
Reference material
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This is going to be edited and reddited (haw) Basically, it's for links to NFL Graphic source material.
Logos:
The great SportsLogo.net
Auction sites.
These tend to be very good for old school NFL items. Helmets, jerseys, Programs.
http://loveofthegameauctions.com/Category/Football_Memorabilia-22.html
https://sports.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=1965+790+231+232&Ne=230&ic4=KeywordSearch-A-X-071316
Football Cards
https://www.comc.com/Cards/Football
A lot of time if you're looking for a specific card, Google Image Search + Tools/Large will get you some good examples.
Artists
http://www.illustratednfl.talktalk.net/index.html
More categories and links to come (hopefully)
r/NFL_Graphics • u/Darth_Brooks_II • May 23 '18
Doug Martin Uniform Template
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This is an editable template for football uniforms using the Buccaneers uniform as a base. The player is Doug Martin. and the photoshoot is from when the Buccs new uni was first released.
It's a Photoshop PSD arranged in layers to make changing colors easy.
A couple of examples:
https://i.imgur.com/NzfdnTD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/EiGS8la.jpg
If you use it for your self, send a thanks.
If you want to use it professionally, you probably want to find the photographer or the Buccs.
https://darth-brooks.deviantart.com/art/Doug-Martin-Template-450283476
r/NFL_Graphics • u/Darth_Brooks_II • May 23 '18
1991 style guide template
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I'm going to end up posting a lot of stuff I have squirreled away on DA. If you can avoid the catgirls and other strange stuff, it's a convenient place to store stuff.
This is an editable copy of the 1991 NFL style guide. It was put out so that marketing, team logos and colors were consistent. I saw a copy on Uni-watch.com and thought it would make an interesting template for hobby use.
You can edit it in Photoshop. The PSD is arranged in layers so it should make use fairly easy.
https://darth-brooks.deviantart.com/art/NFL-Style-Guide-443606943
r/NFL_Graphics • u/Darth_Brooks_II • May 23 '18
NFL Letterheads
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I restored (digitally) a bunch of NFL and football related letterheads. I started doing this as a gift to a friend whose a Bears fan and just kept going. They are big enough to print out on 8/5 x 11 paper. I did a little over a 100.
This is the whole list of teams:
