American Football League - Fictional History

After utilizing their stadium partner’s identity for the past two years, the New York Lions finally got an identity for themselves. After piggy-backing off of the Dutch Lions and getting a run to the championship, owner Peter Stuyvesant wanted to take the Lions in a different direction. Instead of using a dutch lion, he took inspiration from the New York Public Library’s lions, to be fitting for “a team of regal stature in the country’s largest city”. The new primary logo will be the stoic head of one of the lion statues, replacing the heraldic dutch lion that was used in a similar capacity. The Lions also swapped out the tuscan-inspired interlocking N-Y for one that is more blocky, though it will be relegated to secondary use. Their typeset also changes slightly to fit in line with the new secondary. Their uniforms, however, will remain the same, not wanting to change them with a miracle title run this past year. Tri-Cities owner Bob Hester ran into the same issue that Cincinnati had ...

After paying tribute to his father for one more season by wearing the uniforms most associated with the team, Detroit Knights owner Florian Riddle decided that a new era was needed for Detroit football.  Their main logo got rid of the interlocking swords in favor of the shield alone. Riddle had wanted the logo to be representative of Detroit as a whole, integrating the design of the city’s flag into the four quarters of the shield with a D in the center. There were a few alterations from flag to logo, mainly reducing the number of Normal lions and fleurs-de-lis to better fit within the shield. However, they did increase the number of stars by 1 to 14 to represent the total number of championships they had won across all the leagues they played in. Their shades of red and blue were altered slightly, though that could be attributed to the new supplier for their uniforms.    Controversially, the team deviated from their shoulder yoke for the first time in their history. “[Th...

  INTRODUCING THE WASHINGTON FEDERALS In a private press conference inside the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., owner Bernard McCollough finally unveiled the name of the new Washington team: the Washington Federals. McCollough wanted the team to have a patriotic ring to it, shortlisting names such as the Nationals, Americans, and the Stars. The original name of the team was going to be the Eagles, but the fact there were two other bird teams in the league made McCollough change the name to the Federals. The eagle still remains in the logo, with the primary based on the eagle seen in National Recovery Administration posters during the Great Depression. The eagle had symbolized hope for a brighter future during those troubling times, and McCollough chose to use it for a similar reason. Washington had not had a pro team in nearly 3 decades, and the Columbus Buckeyes had struggled for an equal amount of time. McCollough wanted to bring a brighter future to both a tormented f...