The Panthers brought teal to the NFL, and oddly the Jags' helmets resembled the Panthers to some degree.
This season the Panthers changed their look, but only slightly. It wasn't really enough for me to mention, had someone else not put together this graphic:
That's from one of my main sources for logos, sportslogos.net. The original is on top, strangely enough labeled "OLD" and the updated one underneath, labeled "NEW". Funny how that works. They took away some of the panther's facial depth, but gave him an angrier look.
They seem to be making these changes all over the various pro leagues, the "make the animal angrier, and italicized it", like you can italicize animals...I think that's the best description--italicizing the animal, just not so much here with the Panthers.
A black and teal roaring Panther sounds pretty original, but it turned out that the spring football pro league, the USFL, had a team called the Michigan Panthers, and here's their logo:
The USFL was a big-time pro football league that existed for only three seasons during the early '80s, and they played in the spring and summer, not the fall and winter. They drafted three consecutive Heisman trophy winners at a time when the NFL was boring it's fans and had a hard time selling the networks its product.
Once Donald Trump got involved, and tried to shift the league to a fall league, competing against the NFL directly, the whole thing unraveled, and it was lost. One of the most exciting pro football playoff games I've ever heard about was a shootout between Steve Young and Jim Kelly, two Hall of Fame QBs, but it was in the USFL. Jim Kelly through for more than 500 yards and 5 touchdowns to complete the comeback.
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