In November, 1970, a man named Tom Dempsey kicked the longest field goal of the NFL history with half a foot and secured an unlikely victory for his team; the New Orleans Saints. It was one of the best and most surprising moments of a football match. The history, however, is full of such interesting facts and shocking statistics that keep generations glued to the fun of American Football.
As we all know that the National Football League is one of the best and most professional sports leagues in North America, we all expect a super exciting tournament during the regular 17-week season that runs between Labor Day and the New Year. Each team gets to play sixteen games along with a bye week. After the regular season, six teams are left from each conference (i.e., the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference) for the single-elimination tournament, leading up to the Super Bowl. Super Bowl, itself, is the championship game of the National Football League. It was played on January 15, 1967, for the first time.
The NFL season 2015, started on September 4, 2014. Defending champions Seattle Seahawks hosted the Green Bay Packers and defeated them by 36 – 16. The season ended on December 28, 2014, and the playoff games commenced from January 3, 2015. The final showdown of Super Bowl XLIX is scheduled for the February 1, 2015.
Art Resources for NFL Themed T-shirts
As the season is inching towards the Super bowl, the jersey mania has reached its pinnacle among the fans, and people are obsessing over their favorite team uniforms, especially, cool t-shirt designs. NFL art work is in full-swing and artists are gaining a strong fandom for their designs. Merging the two forms of art, i.e. fashion design and logo/insignia design, the industry is witnessing a boom in its profits that wasn’t known before. Keeping the NFL fandom demands of my readers, I am now going to present some valuable resources for tastefully designed t-shirts. These are artworks from various artists and you can get them imprinted on your shirts and enjoy the envious looks from the world. Here, have a look:
1. Fraser Davidson
Fraser Davidson is a founding partner at Cub Studio and doing excellent work as a designer, director and animator. He also specializes in sports identity and you will surely be impressed by the finesse of his technique and a generous doze of bright colors.
2. Markus Magnusson
Markus is a freelance illustrator and motion designer. He loves to design GIFs and creating videos for vimeo. His simple designs are funny, cute and everything that a fan would want on his t-shirt.
3. Steve Wolf
Wolf is a passionate illustrator who works freelance from Austin, Texas. He is also a senior designer who loves to combine vintage elements and modern techniques and create something spontaneous and unique out of it.
4. Mark Crosby
Crosby is a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He studied something that has nothing to do with design, yet his interesting choice of colors and funky logo making skills would capture your attention within seconds.
5. Brandon Moore
Brandon Moore is a graphic artist to creating NFL illustrations. He specializes in logo and brand identity. His artistic genius is evident from the work he has rendered just for sports.
6. Nathan Yoder
Yoder is an awesome illustrator and designer working from Portland, Oregon. Pen and ink illustrations are his forte and he also specializes in hand lettering and branding. He worked with Grantland on the 2014 NFL Preview and some of the slides from his project are too interesting to be left without being used on other NFL related fan-made articles, especially, clothes.
7. Matthew Sharpe
This digital illustration project by Mathew Sharpe was too yummy to be skipped without experimenting on an outfit. Grace your NFL jerseys with this awesome illustration because he has definitely drawn your favorite player exploding with passion.
8. Dave Marrell
Marrell is a freelance illustrator and artist based in Manchester, UK, who specializes in sports illustrations. His clients include Nike, ESPN, Fox Sports, and the like. The illustration used on this t-shirt was originally created for some articles on the ESPN Website. Don’t you think it’d look amazing on a Miami Dolphins’ jersey as well?
9. Brandon Hubschman
This NFL X MLB logo mashup is gonna rock your jerseys this NFL season. It’s unique and it’s awesome by the artist, athlete, chef and student Brandon Hubschman, who is the co-creator at the NFL Memes.
Which of these illustrations and insignias would you like to use on your T-Shirts? Don’t forget to share your opinion in the comments below.
Okay, now here’s the good news! We are uploading all these t-shirt designs on our Instagram profile. Every like and comment counts because we are going to feature one most liked designer on our blog. All you have to do is to ‘Like’ the design that you think does most justice to the spirit of football and your fandom. Cheers!
This jersey mania or craze or madness or whatever are so cool.