NFL Logo Trivia
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100 free NFL Logo trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free NFL Logo trivia questions with answers. Every NFL helmet tells a story. The Steelers wear their logo on one side only because a 1962 test was never undone. The Browns wear no logo at all. The Rams' horns were hand-painted by a halfback, the Chiefs' arrowhead was sketched on a napkin, and the Buccaneers spent two decades apologising for a winking pirate. This quiz covers the logos, helmets, colors and rebrands of all 32 teams, plus the NFL shield and the Super Bowl logo. The 100 questions start easy (whose logo is a fleur-de-lis?) and get progressively harder, ending with the kind of detail only uniform obsessives know: which newspaper coined 'Bucco Bruce', which industry the Bills' logo designer came from, and what the Oilers' derrick was originally called. It works solo or as a themed round for a sports quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia team pages and primary sources before publication, and the source is shown under each question, so you can settle any argument the moment it starts.
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Q 01Which NFL team's logo is a fleur-de-lis?
New Orleans Saints
New Orleans Saints helmets have carried the fleur-de-lis since the team's first season in 1967; the lily of French royalty is also the emblem of the city itself.
Q 02A blue horseshoe on each side of a white helmet identifies which team?
Indianapolis Colts
Indianapolis Colts horseshoes began in 1954, the club's Baltimore days, as a white pair on the back of a blue helmet; only later did they move to the sides of a white one.
Q 03A single white horn, outlined in gold, on each side of a purple helmet belongs to which team?
Minnesota Vikings
Minnesota Vikings helmets have worn the horn since the 1961 debut, when a Los Angeles newspaper cartoonist designed the look; it was reshaped in 2006 in what the team calls its most dramatic uniform change.
Q 04An arc-shaped lightning bolt has been which NFL team's emblem ever since its first season in 1960?
Los Angeles Chargers
Los Angeles Chargers bolts date from the first season, when the club crest also showed a horse's head; a charger can be a war horse as well as a jolt of electricity.
Q 05Which is the only NFL team that puts its logo on just one side of the helmet?
Pittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh Steelers equipment manager Jack Hart put the logo on the right side only in 1962, as a test of how it looked on gold helmets; the oddity drew so much interest that it stayed.
Q 06What steelmaking ingredient does the yellow shape in the Steelers' logo represent?
Coal
Coal is the yellow shape, iron ore the orange and scrap steel the blue; the three first stood for a slogan that steel "lightens your work, brightens your leisure and widens your world".
Q 07The Steelers' logo is based on the 'Steelmark', an industry emblem originally designed by which company?
U.S. Steel
U.S. Steel created the Steelmark, but it was a rival, Republic Steel of Ohio, that suggested the football team wear it in 1962; the emblem now belongs to the American Iron and Steel Institute.
Q 08What did the NFL team that wears the Steelmark win permission to add to it?
The letters 'ers'
The letters 'ers' turned the emblem's 'Steel' into the club's own name after it petitioned the steel institute; around the same time the helmets went from gold to black to show the logo off.
Q 09Which is the only NFL team with no logo on its helmet?
Cleveland Browns
Cleveland Browns helmets are plain orange, and the club treats the bare helmet itself as its logo; the only marks ever worn on the sides were players' numbers, from 1957 to 1960.
Q 10The Browns' darker official color is formally known by what name?
Seal brown
Seal brown has been on the club's color list since its first season in 1946, beside burnt orange; by one account, coach Paul Brown fell for the pairing on a framed jersey at Bowling Green, where the team first trained.
Q 11The oval 'G' logo was drawn in 1961 by an art student from which school, the Packers' training-camp home for six decades?
St. Norbert College
St. Norbert College student John Gordon, an assistant to the equipment manager, sketched the football-shaped "G" after the head coach asked for a logo; it was approved within a day.
Q 12What was added to the Cowboys' plain solid star in 1964?
A border
A border of white and blue went around the star in 1964, the year the helmets turned silver-blue, so that the mark would stand out against the new shell.
Q 13What is embossed on the blue strip of Dymo tape on the back of every Cowboys helmet?
The player's name
Q 21The Atlanta Falcons' swooping bird logo is drawn so that its shape suggests which capital letter?
F
F for Falcons has been hidden in the bird's outline since the first logo of 1966; the 2003 redesign, with red and silver accents, made the letter easier to see.
Q 22The Buccaneers' original orange uniforms earned what dessert-inspired nickname?
Creamsicle
Creamsicle orange was barely seen at first: the team wore white for every regular-season game of 1976, so the orange jerseys came out only in preseason.
Q 23Since 1997 the Buccaneers' primary colors have been red and which metallic shade?
Pewter
Pewter arrived in 1997 with a skull-and-swords flag meant to toughen the club's image; the old winking pirate had been mocked as better suited to an Easter parade than a pirate ship.
The player's name is punched into label-maker tape on the white stripe at the back of each helmet, a habit the Cowboys have kept for decades while other clubs hide such labels inside the shell.
Q 14When the Bengals unveiled their tiger-striped orange helmets, Sports Illustrated likened them to what?
Varicose pumpkins
Varicose pumpkins was the magazine's verdict in December 1981, the stripes' first season; the team ignored the jibe and has worn tiger stripes on its helmets ever since.
Q 15From 1968 to 1980, what appeared on the sides of Cincinnati's orange helmets?
The word 'Bengals'
The word 'Bengals' in plain block letters was all Paul Brown put on the helmet; fired by his old club, he had dressed the new one in the very same shade of orange.
Q 16Fans nicknamed the Patriots' 1993 logo after which singer?
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley is who fans saw in the sleek grey profile, so "Flying Elvis" it became; the team wanted a mark simpler to reproduce than the finely drawn Pat Patriot it replaced.
Q 17At a 1979 game the Patriots let fans vote on a new logo; how was the crowd's verdict measured?
A sound level meter
A sound level meter recorded the cheers for each design at halftime, and the old minuteman won easily; the owner, it later emerged, had never wanted to change the logo anyway.
Q 18What was the Patriots' very first helmet logo, worn only in 1960?
A tricorne hat
A tricorne hat, sent in by a fan, was the first helmet logo; it lasted a single year before a cartoonist's minuteman, soon known as Pat Patriot, replaced it.
Q 19The Buccaneers' original pirate logo winked instead of wearing an eyepatch, to avoid copying which team?
Oakland Raiders
The winking swashbuckler was quickly nicknamed 'Bucco Bruce' and became a symbol of the club's early futility.
Q 20In the Miami Dolphins' logo, the dolphin is set against what?
A sunburst
A sunburst has sat behind the dolphin since 1966; the 2013 redesign kept the sun but took off the football helmet, marked with an "M", that the dolphin had worn for more than four decades.
Q 24Which team was the first in the NFL to put a logo on its helmets, back in 1948?
Los Angeles Rams
Los Angeles Rams halfback Fred Gehrke, who had studied art, painted the horns onto the leather helmets himself in 1948; six years on, only one other club had a helmet emblem.
Q 25In the Patriots' 1961–1992 logo, the minuteman known as Pat Patriot is shown doing what?
Hiking a football
Hiking a football, crouched like a center in Revolutionary War dress, is how a newspaper cartoonist drew him in 1960; fans loved him enough to vote down a replacement in 1979.
Q 26In their 2020 rebrand, the Rams gave their shade of yellow what official name?
Sol
Sol, Spanish for sun, came with a blue called Rams Royal; the logos unveiled alongside drew enough criticism that the club's chief operating officer read out mean tweets about them to reward donors to a charity telethon.
Q 27The horse-head logo the Broncos adopted in 1997 was inspired by their live mascot, an Arabian horse named what?
Thunder
Thunder, the name shared by the grey Arabians that have galloped the field for the club since 1993, was the model Nike's designers built the new logo around.
Q 28From 1968 to 1996 the Broncos' logo showed a bucking horse bursting out of which letter?
D
D for Denver framed the snorting bronco through the Orange Crush years; the 1997 redesign dropped the letter along with the royal blue helmets.
Q 29The Jaguars' first proposed logo, a gold leaping cat, was scrapped after objections from which automaker?
Ford
Ford, which then owned the Jaguar car company, objected that the leaping gold cat looked too much like the carmaker's own; the team redrew its logo rather than fight the matter in court.
Q 30Wayne Weaver joked that the teal tongue in the Jaguars' logo came from 'feeding' which fellow expansion team to them?
Carolina Panthers
Carolina Panthers entered the league alongside Jacksonville in 1995, hence the owner's jab at them; he credited the teal tongue itself to his wife.