Slater Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 What year did NFL teams begin adding names to the back of jeseys? Was there one team that started a trend or did the League do this all at once? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John in KY Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 I think the AFL always had nameplates from the time they started play in 1960. I don't think any NFL teams had them until after the merger was announced, but I'm not sure exactly who was first and when they started. Maybe an expansion team, either Atlanta or New Orleans was first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 EDIT-John beat me to it. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gothamite Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 I don't know if any NFL teams had names on the back before the merger (I do know that the Packers didn't).After the merger in 1970, all teams had them. The Green Bay Packers Uniform Database! Now in a handy blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sj32 Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 No NFL teams had names on the back until the 1970 season, when the league made all teams add names to jerseys. I think one exception may be when some running backs had "tear-away" jerseys in the mid to late 1970's. I'm going back in my memory but I don't think all of the tear-aways had names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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