National Football League


National Football Conference - West Division

ARIZONA CARDINALS ST. LOUIS RAMS SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS

Historical Helmets

ARIZONA CARDINALS

1960; 1994 special 1960 - 2004 2005 -

The new 2005 logo updated the one which had been used by the team continuously since the second game of the 1960 season (though some very minor changes were made to the logo during this 45-year period).

The team was based in Chicago prior to 1960 and moved from Saint Louis to Phoenix following the 1987 season. For several seasons thereafter, the team went by the name Phoenix Cardinals.


ST. LOUIS RAMS

1964 - 1972 1950 - 1963;
1973 - 1980
1981 - 1999
2000 -

The Rams were based in Cleveland from 1937 through 1945 and in Los Angeles from 1946 through 1994. Some rather subtle changes were made to the shapes of the horn decals over the years, but I have not attempted to depict those changes here.


SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS

1960 - 1961 1962 - 1963 1964 - 1995;
several games in the 2000s
*see note 1 below
1996 -

*1 This design was brought back for the following 49ers home games: November 25, 2002 vs Philadelphia; October 30, 2005 vs Tampa Bay; November 5, 2006 vs Minnesota; September 10, 2007 vs Arizona; and November 17, 2007 vs Saint Louis (and possibly one or more other games which I missed).


SEATTLE SEAHAWKS

1976 - 1982 1983 - 2001 2002 -

The blue helmet introduced in 2002 supposedly received 76.6% of the vote in a fan preference poll conducted by the team in which the other choice was a silver-shelled helmet design with the same logo.