Often times, when I’m doing my morning interwebbrowsinggooglebingtumbletweet routine and sucking down 6 gallons of coffee, I’ll stumble across a picture or video that’s really cool, and I’ll be like, “Hey, the With Leather readers might like this” and then I realize that it’s three years old and it’s already been watermarked by 60 sites that had nothing to do with making it. But sometimes I’m willing to make an exception under the Burnsy Rule of “I ain’t never seen this” and today is one of those days.
Yesterday, CBS Sports re-blogged or re-Tumbled, whatever it’s called, a bigger version of the above image that features a collection of “What If?” city sports team logos. Basically, someone got all hopped up on Photoshop juice and asked the question that nobody else was asking – “What would it look like if sports teams in major cities combined their logos?” And I thought that was really cool. But the problem was, damn dude, why are those logos so tiny?
So I went back to the source of the image, thanks to Tumblr’s handy “Okay, who really posted this?” feature, and that was a dead end, because the person who blogged it 500 notes ago had nothing to do with making it. Thankfully, I know how to type and I have a functional IQ, and I was able to search a little and determine that not only did that awesome image come from a message board thread at Chris Creamer’s Sports Logos from earlier this year, but the creative kids commenting on that site went off with this fun idea.
Specifically, a commenter named “Firefly” had a field day with a variety of sports city logos from Washington DC to San Diego and back, and other commenters joined in to rep their favorite cities. Some of them are awesome and some need a little work, but after the jump you can pick your favorites and then go get them tattooed on your faces like good sports fans.

















































































Raiders/Giants/Sharks/Warriors. I may have a new avatar.
This post makes me happy for no other reason than it reminded me about that ridiculous Gorton’s Fisherman logo.
I don’t have any love for the city or teams in Detroit, but man, that basketball-playing winged lion is sweet.
Agreed.
oh shit, the chicago one with the white sock on the bull’s horn!
oh man, bengal-headed cincinnati reds guy!
oh man, philly phanatic riding a eagle!
oh man, toronto blue-raptor!
You’re turning into Jax.
/flares nostrils
Jesus Christ! I’m taking this to The Table.
I would like to protest, in a small town southern way, that the panthers & hurricanes are from different cities 150 miles apart… not that it matters.
#54 – I love that it’s basically a coyote coughing up a cardinal head.
That Yankees/Jets one is just kind of sad. But the rest…I like.
At this point, shouldn’t the New Jersey one just be a Devils logo?
First logo on homepage. *Sigh*. The Thrashers aren’t part of Atlanta anymore. Those games were always fun.
Damn. I like the Seattle one.
I live with the Bobcats and the Panthers.
Our logo should be a noose holding itself up.
Nice touch on the Allouette holding the Expos logo for Montreal.
I dig the the 2nd Minnesota one. That’s cool, but, then again, I’m a homer.
Whatever, I’ve kindasorta been doing this forever.
As if people in Wisconsin actually would allow the Bucks to have representation on there
Very disappointed in my hometown’s (San Diego) effort. Now I feel inclined to fix it.
And yes, I’m generally disappointed in San Diego’s effort.
I like that the Winnipeg logo has the Jets and an independent minor league baseball team (Goldeyes).
The lesson is, as always…Canada sucks
Wow, some of these are actually kind of good. Others look like something I could do in 3 minutes, which is really, really, bad.
The Packers/Bucks/Brewers mashup captured the state of Wisconsin perfectly.
I don’t understand how this guy can have the Winnepeg Jets and the Atlanta Thrashers logos at the same time?
The Buffalo ones are amazing, which is more than can be said for either team over the years. And this is coming from a fan of both, born & bred in the B-lo.
Mr. Bengal is already an vast improvement over Mr. Redlegs. Now I want to see the Reds and Bengals switch colors for one game. Have the Reds play with Baseball-versions of the Bengals stripes and the Bengals play with Football-versions of the Reds colors.
Also I want to see Who Dey the Bengal Tiger eat Gapper. If you’ve even seen Gapper, you undersand.
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Here is another one of 5 Phoenix teams, including the ASU Sun Devils! ( [sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net] ) Go PHX!!!!!!