leopard88 3,077 Posted January 28, 2019 2 minutes ago, pepis21 said: When I was young I thought it was a bird holding a puck in his wing. Actually... I still see a bird in that. I can actually see that. The little motion line section wrapping around the top of the A is the beak. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
8BW14 1,365 Posted January 28, 2019 For a long time, when I saw the Nordiques logo, I saw an elephant. I always knew it couldn’t be an elephant but that’s what I saw. Even now, I know it’s an igloo, but still have to make myself look at it that way rather than seeing the abstract elephant with the ball on its trunk. 7 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ferdinand Cesarano 4,544 Posted January 28, 2019 Misconception on the part of my moronic aunts: that the Yankees' and the Mets' NY insignias are the same. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bmac 866 Posted January 28, 2019 As a kid I learned about sports teams via trading cards and collectible helmets that my dad gave me. I'd collect trading cards and organize them by team. Every now and then I'd ask my dad about a certain team and he'd tell me they no longer existed, shattering my understanding of reality. I remember getting really excited about the California Seals and then learning they were long gone. I constantly drew logos of teams from each league, which were no doubt inaccurate due to my misunderstanding of relocation and such. My dad had this NFL standings board with the little magnetic helmets. I used that to learn the NFL teams. The orange helmets faded to a very light shade, almost pink. So I grew up thinking the Browns and Bengals wore light pink helmets. I couldn't tell the two teams apart until I finally saw the Bengals on TV and fell in love with their tiger striped uniforms. I remember asking why the Colts logo was a U, thinking the Oilers logo was a power line, and I thought it was funny Pittsburgh's team was named after thieves (Stealers). 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ferdinand Cesarano 4,544 Posted January 28, 2019 11 minutes ago, Bmac said: I remember asking why the Colts logo was a U, thinking the Oilers logo was a power line, and I thought it was funny Pittsburgh's team was named after thieves (Stealers). You have reminded me that I thought that the Oilers' logo was the Eiffel Tower. 8 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Forged in Steel 10 Posted January 28, 2019 When I was younger, I believed the NFL Q.B. Club logo was a bird. Pardon the crude illustration example. 10 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tigerslionspistonshabs 1,626 Posted January 28, 2019 As a kid, I had Lions stuff all over my room and stared at this thing every night for years. The white hole looks like an eye. I know it`s supposed to be the space between his leg and chin, but they could`ve made it a bit more pronounced. DROVE ME NUTS. So glad they updated it. I could only ever see a Jb. Still to this day, I have to really look for the M. I think it would be brilliant if they made the right curl a bit more pronounced without disrupting the b. To a less extent, I used to think the old Bronco head in the D was snorting out lasers. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KittSmith_95 1,205 Posted January 28, 2019 15 hours ago, AndrewMLind said: I used to think as a child South Carolina’s logo was a Chinese dragon, especially when viewed in tiny applications such as a Pocket Pro helmet. Almost as if the ruffled feathers on the neck was the head and the bird’s protruding head was an oddly-shaped mouth: http://www.sportslogos.net/logos/view/5gje9m4b1shmcd442rkpxkeb8/South_Carolina_Gamecocks/1983/Primary_Logo Oddly enough, I swear I see a warthog with feathers here.... the rooster's head is the "nose", the wing under the head is the "mouth"..... am I crazy? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neo_prankster 3,372 Posted January 28, 2019 Before I learned what a ram really is, I mistook the horns on the team's helmets for a snail shell. What also didn't help was that this was way before the Rams adopted the ram head logo. Instead, the TV networks just used the helmet horns on a blue background as an icon. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BBTV 19,475 Posted January 28, 2019 I see a penis in just about every logo. Is that weird? 20 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the admiral 28,242 Posted January 28, 2019 Count me as the third kid who thought the Nordiques' logo was an elephant. But why did we think it was an elephant? It doesn't really look like one, but then it doesn't really look much like an igloo, either. I always knew the Expos' logo had an e and a b but I never saw the M until years later. What a revelation. 5 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the admiral 28,242 Posted January 28, 2019 4 minutes ago, BringBackTheVet said: I see a penis in just about every logo. Is that weird? I'm kind of envisioning a Brandiose version of the GloboChem sketch from Mr. Show where a designer keeps submitting increasingly phallic logo concepts but can't for the life of him see what the problem is while everyone else in the conference room gets increasingly irate. Finally, they send the designer on some sort of retreat to find himself, after which he finally comes up with the perfect concept for Macon's new team: introducing, the Georgia O'Keeffes. 7 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
floydnimrod 222 Posted January 28, 2019 I thought Indiana's "IU" logo was a menorah. I was seven, not Jewish, and had no idea how many candle belonged on a menorah. 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neo_prankster 3,372 Posted January 28, 2019 8 minutes ago, fnz said: I thought Indiana's "IU" logo was a menorah. I was seven, not Jewish, and had no idea how many candle belonged on a menorah. I thought that same IU was some kind of cactus. 5 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OnWis97 4,515 Posted January 28, 2019 Atlanta Hawks "Pac Man." I didn't think it was Pac Man, but I saw it as some weird shape "eating" a red dot. It took me a long time to recognize the bird head in the negative space. Sacramento (and KC) Kings 1980s logo (a variation of which exists again in different colors). I saw a winding road going off toward the horizon with mountains in the background. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sport 13,776 Posted January 28, 2019 Took me until I was, let's say, 25 to see the eye in the Bills' logo. I thought it was just another part of the horn. 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neo_prankster 3,372 Posted January 28, 2019 Of course, I learned later how the Kings' logo predated the iconic TV series. 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bmac 866 Posted January 28, 2019 8 minutes ago, McCarthy said: Took me until I was, let's say, 25 to see the eye in the Bills' logo. I thought it was just another part of the horn. I just now noticed the eye. I always figured there was supposed to be an eye in that shape but never really focused on it until this post. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BigDmo 337 Posted January 28, 2019 For some reason, even to this day, when I look at the Texans logo I do not see it as a steer with its head down charging to the right but rather an abstract steer head with a really sloped nose facing the left with a star in the middle of its forehead 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tjs11 248 Posted January 28, 2019 18 minutes ago, Bmac said: I just now noticed the eye. I always figured there was supposed to be an eye in that shape but never really focused on it until this post. 28 minutes ago, McCarthy said: Took me until I was, let's say, 25 to see the eye in the Bills' logo. I thought it was just another part of the horn. WHAT? that's an eye? so the horn doesn't even come to a point? 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
