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Actually you are correct. I was looking at one of my "newer" pics of the silverdome, my notes where from the surface that was installed after the superbowl (in the late 80's) and BC "BS" (before Barry Sanders). Those are the accurate numbers!

Super Bowl XVI: Pontiac Silver Dome, Pontiac, Michigan.

The one thing that might need some work are the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 5. I didn't add any gaps in them because I couldn't tell if there were any. Some help there will be appreciated.

Judging by that image a few pages ago, the Bengals script wasn't that bunched together, but spread out. I think.

Here the only one I still have from the Detroit News Archives

the Letters are about .the right width, But a bit to tall. Narrow the height a smidge and you got it.

The "1" and the "2" did not have any gaps. The "3" "4" and "5" did. On the "3" is was at the top and bottom. The "4" was at the top a seperation where the diagonal arm met the the top. And the "5" was at the bottom base and the left middle at the junction of the small arm and the begining of the upper part of the loop!

Super Bowl XV on-field logos:

Midfield

Raiders Endzone

Eagles Endzone

Did you hand draw the "Wings" on the Eagles helmet. Or did you find a really good.gif or .png someware?

Here's what an alternate Rams helmet may have looked like

Oooooh. Physcodelic man! ;-)

Do the footballs on both 35 yard lines on the Super Bowl XIV field read "Official Peter Rozelle?"

Actually "Official" and "Pete Rozelle" I believe. There is a Youtube vid earlier I posted with the SB XV NFL films feature that really zoomed in on the football!

Super Bowl XIV on-field logos:

Rams endzone

I'm curious to why they didn't experiment with the Rams by having the ram horns on both helmets in the endzone because the NFC logo kind of blends into the blue helmet.

Not sure, but they did experiment with SB XVI in Pontiac!

All of these fields look absolutely beautiful. Keep up the great work and take your time with these!

Yep, he is doing a great job. And the Sportslogos community has really pitched in this endevor. I have enjoied seeing the fields as they are posted on the board. And he has a better graphics program than mine. This database will be a hot topic for a long time! Keep up the good work!

Yea. Its like they do not even recognize that logo. And its more a "Placeholder" logo that was modifed at the merger of the NFL and the AFL.

Here is a pic of the "football" logo from SB XV

link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM89-nLYq7U#t=44

And Sadly this is what the Silverdome looks like today! The roof destroyed, and the turf soaked and roting.

Here the only one I still have from the Detroit News Archives

Here is a youtube link to SB XII the Shields where both blue with the Broncos" lettered in Orange and Dallas" in Cowboy silver!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GH7yYo8920

Thanks for the link. I was using red instead of Broncos Orange. I only saw a poor quality video. As for the Bengals word mark, in an email you sent me before with some of the fields you had the right font for the Bengals, so did you just use a default font, or make edits to the Bengals wordmark?

I edited the font slighty. Mostly the white borders, as the font on the NFL page here is a touch too bold. I took the font from the page and took it to 75%, then increased the size of the border to fit the look from a couple of photo's I had from SB XIV (I lived in Detroit back then, did not get to the game but had a couple of shots from an old copy of the the Detroit News and Free Press). There has been more than one occasion where George Toma (The NFL Field Guru) had to "Adapt to Overcome" with the linitations of an NFL endzone! ;-)

Here is a youtube link to SB XII the Shields where both blue with the Broncos" lettered in Orange and Dallas" in Cowboy silver!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GH7yYo8920

SB XII also had the shield at the 35's. And also the 1st SB with Directional arrows (albeit small and two arrows on the 50) on the field. And the Bengals wordmark is similar but a bit condensed and a larger white border aeound the letters.

I'm not sure if they did this but, did the helmet logos ever go from the 2-bar style to the 4-bar style?

Like this:

Super Bowl XXX was the only year they had both 4 bar helmets in the endzone. From XXXI to XXXVI they were at the 30's, for XXXVII they were at the 25's, and for XXXVIII and XXXIX there was only the single one in the left of the endzones.

Yep, He beat me to the punch. But 100% correct!

No problem. I know that feeling/ I work on a compluter for 10 hours a day (rotational 4 day work week). Not easy, but Iove my job! ;-)

In Super Bowl XIX (Stanford Stadium Palo Alto, CA) the Dolphins Endzone was Orange with the script in Aqua and white. The helmets where white, and the ear holes where white as well.

Nice. Looking good. Wish I had a full version of Photoshop. I have so many of the Current and some past fields on file. Some where easy Washington (RFK and FedEX), Detroit (Pontiac Silverdome). And some much harder, Miami (current Stadium) and LA Rams (Anaheim). And Paint just does not do it justice!

You are correct.sir! SB 31 in New Orleans started the helmets on the "30's" that lasted till SB 38 when the Individual SB logos took their place and the NFL shield returned to the 50 yard line. The respective Helmet/team logos and conference logos remained in the end zone, as they have since!

Looking good. Glad to be of assistance! :-)

I was working on some later Super Bowl Fields and I noticed the NFL logo for Super Bowl XIII was different than any NFL logo on this site, or that I've seen. Super Bowl's VI, and VIII also had the same logo.

I was wondering if anyone had seen pictures or videos of for Super Bowl's VII, XI or XII that show the same logo at midfield (not including the white outline). I have Super Bowl's IX, X, XIII and XIV covered. This would be a big help, so thanks in advance.

Here is what this site has for the time so you can see the difference.

To me though what was used looks more like the older logo on this site, minus the bars and red in the football, but with slight differences.

Yep I saw that too. It was used till Superbowl XVI at the Pontiac Silverdome (Without the huge white border). It was more a cross of the more modern version and the previous one.

Good, i look forward to that. I have a couple of "side" notes. The NFL adopted the "space" between the sideline and the yard lines in and around SB 20 (NE vs Chicago in 1980) if i remember correctly. Before then the yardlines extended all the way to the sidelines. Ill see if I can dig up some more notes as i go through my files.

No problem.

As per the 2013 and earlier editions of the NFL rule book. Rule one, section one, diagram 1 (Plan of the Playing Field) The distance from the sideline to the bottom of the numbers is 12 yards or 36 ft. If you like I have the full rule book in Adobe Acrobat and the Diagrams in a .PDF. Would you like me to send you that file! ;-)

Super Bowl IV

I was able to find a good video for this one, but I was never able to find any pictures or videos showing the Vikings endzone except for their wordmark. So at this point I think I've got everything correct, but I'm unsure about the Vikings logo and the NFL logo in the Vikings endzone.

Yea, Its always hard, as the field was a disaster with all the mud during the game. Most NFL films I have seen have just shown huge amounts of mud!