Defunct Sports Tank Tops

Defunct Virginia Sailors Football Team

Defunct Alberta Dusters Basketball Team

The Boston Sweepers were a semi-pro football outfit that drew crowds of a few thousand per game on the northern outskirts of Boston during the mid-1960’s. The team formed in 1962 as a semi-pro entry in the New England Football League. Press accounts alternately referred to the team as the Boston Sweepers, Chelsea-Everett Sweepers and Nu-Way Sweepers that fall. The latter name derived from team owner Ted Barron’s Nu-Way Disposal Service business.

Defunct Chicago Stags in Chicago Stadium 1946-1950

The Louisville Coal Miners were a minor league baseball team based in Louisville, Colorado. In 1898, the Coal Miners briefly played as members of the Colorado State League, hosting home games at the Athletic Grounds. Louisville folded during the 1898 season.

The Wisconsin State League was a relatively stable post-war Class D minor league baseball circuit. The league formed with six clubs in the summer of 1940 and added two more expansion clubs, Janesville and Oskhosh, in 1941. Like most of the minors, the Wisconsin State League shut down from 1943 through 1945 during the height of the war effort. The league’s attendance and the financial viability of its clubs were already in decline when the National when the when the National League’s Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1953.

The Bangor Lumberjacks were the second of two failed attempts to establish low-level professional baseball in (or at least “near”) Bangor, Maine during the independent baseball boom of the 1990’s and early 21st century. Both the Lumberjacks and their predecessor, the Bangor Blue Ox (1996-1997), had a brand identity closely connected to Paul Bunyan folklore. Bangor claims to be the birthplace of the mythic logger and has a gargantuan statue of the woodsman in a downtown park

Chicago Packers ))(( Retro Defunct Basketball Team Design

Inspired by the logo for the defunct WHA hockey team, Los Angeles Sharks,

Defunct Baltimore Blades Hockey Team

Defunct Detroit Heralds Football Team

Defunct Los Angeles Dons Football Team

Defunct Chicago Express Basketball 1988-1992

Defunct Boston Yanks Football Team

Defunct Los Angeles Bulldogs Football Team

Defunct Tonawanda Kardex Lumbermen Football Team

Defunct Boston Bulldogs Football Team

Defunct Columbus Bullies Football Team

Defunct New Glasgow Black Foxes Hockey Team

Defunct Denver Dynamite Football Team Helmet

Defunct Winston Salem Polar Twins Hockey Team

Defunct Troy Slapshots New York Hockey Team

Defunct Columbus Panhandles Football Team

Defunct The Bradley Center Basketball Stadium

The Charlotte Hornets were an American football team in the short-lived professional World Football League. Despite their brief existence, the Hornets were North Carolina's first attempt at a major league football team, predating the Carolina Panthers by two decades.

Defunct Dallas Chaparrals Basketball

Defunct Dallas Chaparrals Basketball

Defunct Retro Tidewater Sharks Hockey Team

The Los Angles Dons were founded in 1946 as a member of the AAFC along with the Cleveland Browns and the San Fransisco 49ers. They had a number of celebrity shareholders and actually out drew the Los Angles Rams during their time. The logo is taken from the wordmark used by the team.

Defunct Memphis Tams Basketball

Flint Michigan Tropics Defunct Funny Sports Logo

Defunct Memphis Pros Basketball

Defunct Memphis Southmen Football Team Helmet

Defunct Memphis Pros Arena Basketball

The Hawaii Islanders were a minor league baseball team based in Honolulu, Hawaii, that played in the Triple-A Pacific Coast League for 27 seasons from 1961 through 1987.

The Cleveland Spiders were an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The team competed at the major league level from 1887 to 1899, first for two seasons as a member of the now-defunct American Association (AA)