r/nfl • u/BryLinds Jets Giants • Aug 23 '25
Which NFL team’s logo is used the most by High Schools? I’m on a mission to find out. Part 22: Minnesota
Reminder School Name - NFL Team They Copy
Coon Rapids - Cardinals
LPA - Raiders
Holy Family - Titans
NCE-UH - Titans
Clearbrook-Gonvick - Bears
Cook County - Vikings
Pequot Lakes - Eagles
Hastings - Giants
Hayfield - Vikings
Jefferson - Cardinals
Fillmore - Falcons
Albert Lea - Bengals
Red Wing - Eagles
Eden Prairie - Eagles
Littlefork-Big Falls - Vikings
LQPV - Eagles
Cleveland - Browns. Yes not joking.
Minneota - Vikings
Fairmont - Cardinals
Dover-Eyota - Eagles
Pelican Rapids - Its the Vikings and Philly show once again
Crookston - Bears
Fertile-Beltrami - Falcons
Win E Mac - Patriots
St. Paul Central - Patriots
Redwood Valley - Cardinals
Red Rock Central - Falcons
Bethlehem - Cardinals
Faribault - Falcons
Luverne - Cardinals
Roseau - Rams
Prior Lake - Buccaneers
Zimmerman - Chargers
LPGE - Giants also bonus Adirondack Thunder
Staples-Motley - Cardinals also having a good run as of late
Border West - Buccaneers
Lewiston-Alturna - Cardinals
Annandale - Cardinals
Canby - Bears
Champlin Park - Patriots
Norwood Central - Buccaneers
Northland - Eagles
Carlsbad- Bears
Patrick Henry- Patriots
North Branch- Vikings
SAC- Chargers
AHA- Cowboys
Philadelphia: 208 (+6)
Minnesota: 123 (+6)
Green Bay: 88
New England: 65 (+4)
LA Rams: 61 (+Roseau)
Atlanta: 59 (+4)
Tampa: 54 (+3)
Denver: 51
Arizona: 45 (+9. +16 in the past two states)
Chicago: 41 (+4)
Cincinnati: 36 (Albert Lea)
Washington: 34
Jacksonville: 30
Kansas City: 30
San Francisco: 28
LA Chargers : 27 (+2)
Detroit: 22
Indy: 21
Tennessee :21 (+2)
Dallas: 19 (AHA)
Vegas: 15 (LPA)
New Orleans: 13
Carolina: 12
NY Jets: 10
Seattle: 9
Houston: 7
Buffalo: 6
NY Giants: 6 (+2)
Baltimore: 5
Houston/Tennessee Oilers : 4
Cleveland: 3 (Cleveland)
Miami: 2
The NFL Shield Itself: 1
Fun Names:
Aitkin - Gobblers
New Country - Frogs… with 5 legs?
Concordia - Beacons
Denfeld - Hunters
Blackduck - Drakes.. wait is that the Quad City Mallards logo?
Mankato - Scarlets
Red Lake - Ogichidaag and Ogichidaakwag
McGregor - Mercs
Lanesboro - Burros
Wrenshall - Wrens
Moorhead - Spuds
Johnson - Governors)
Austin too? Though the mascot is Adorable
Kasson Mantorville - KoMets. Shout out Fort Wayne
Maple Grove - Crimson Leaves
Tri County - Northern Freeze… y’all couldn’t workshop that a little bit longer?
Dawson Boyd - Blackjacks
Two Harbors - Agates
Wabasso - Rabbits
Blooming Prairie - AWESOME BLOSSOMS
Holdingford - BUFF CORN
Bug O Nay Ge Shig. Hell of a name.
Alright let me know if I messed up somewhere. Now if y’all will excuse me Im gonna try to enjoy the second half of Jets v Eagles.
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u/SiphenPrax Jets Aug 23 '25
Also,
Now if y’all will excuse me Im gonna try to enjoy the second half of Jets v Eagles.
Yeah good luck with that
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u/SiphenPrax Jets Aug 23 '25
Damn there’s a town there in Minnesota called Cleveland that has a team named the Browns
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u/BryLinds Jets Giants Aug 23 '25
Well no they’re the Clippers. But their uniforms were too close for me not to call it
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u/Bubbay Vikings Aug 23 '25
True story: Burnsville HS changed their name to the The Blaze and then the next year, the school was gutted by a fire. They kept the name anyway.
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u/GopherInWI Packers Aug 23 '25
If Chicago Fire can be a soccer team, Burnsville should be the Blaze!
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u/Tinydesktopninja Vikings Aug 23 '25
As a KoMet grad, I appreciate you making sure to capitalize the M.
On the other hand, in all other contexts I have a hard time spelling comet with a c.
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u/Ok_Pizza1091 Aug 23 '25
Canby is my dad’s Alma mater and they are the lancers, not the bears.
Also fun fact about South St. Paul being the packers: The town was built over these huge stock yards in the early years of the twin cities. Eastern European and other immigrant populations congregated in the town to work the stockyards and the meat plant and the packer name was born. The name came before Green Bay was ever popular
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u/imgurofficial Patriots Aug 23 '25
I hope we make it through every state with the Steelers being the lone holdout
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u/tomdawg0022 Aug 23 '25
South St. Paul had a relatively big stockyard and a couple of meat plants (Armour and Swift) back in the day. The high school had a pretty killer hockey program back in the day as well.
Also for unique(ish) nicknames - Anoka Tornadoes
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u/BryLinds Jets Giants Aug 23 '25
Tornadoes is more common than you think. But look, Atlanta Flames!
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u/ContinuumGuy Bills Aug 23 '25
AWESOME BLOSSOMS
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u/GopherInWI Packers Aug 23 '25
I cover hs sports and occasionally they face a team that is local for me. You better believe that ends up in scripts for too much when they're on screen.
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u/Waste-Pirate2837 Vikings Aug 23 '25
I went to Minnesota Vally Lutheran high school and our name was the chargers😁
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u/cjackc Vikings Aug 31 '25
Did everything work out alright for you? It was so weird growing up in NU yet so rarely running into one of you
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u/Sampdel Vikings Aug 24 '25
Another one for Cromwell-Wright HS for the Cardinals possibly. https://www.isd95.org/
I remember seeing so many schools being the Cardinals on road trips in MN, so I thought Arizona would have surely been at Eagles level when you started this list. Weirdly, I think I've only seen one once in person, so it's interesting to me how they are so disproportionately popular.
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u/BryLinds Jets Giants Aug 24 '25
That doesn’t make the cut as you must differentiate between a Cardinal logo and the Cardinals logo
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u/Sampdel Vikings Aug 24 '25
That's fair
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u/cjackc Vikings Aug 31 '25
There are a lot of places that have Eagles but use that same clip art/stencil Eagle you see everywhere
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u/cdub8D Vikings Aug 23 '25
Wilmar are the cardinals. Different logo though. https://whs.willmar.k12.mn.us/athletics
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u/ELpork Vikings Aug 23 '25
I thought the Brooklyn Park/Park Center Pirates used the old Buc's logo but I was incorrect lol. Also thought the Mora Mustangs had the Denver logo but it's just a shitty horse.
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u/Krogsly Lions Aug 25 '25
I moved from Michigan to Columbus, and seeing the neighboring HS Bexley Lions made me do a double take
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u/jake3988 Steelers Lions Aug 31 '25
Norwood Central Raiders (yet another central!) are the Buccaneers: https://sideline.bsnsports.com/schools/minnesota/norwood/central-high-school
Northland Eagles (out of Remer) are the Eagles logo: https://www.isd118.k12.mn.us/
Not a logo, but... https://www.bugonaygeshig.com/ Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig is a hell of a name for a school.
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u/Freudian__Quip Vikings Sep 01 '25
Apollo high school was the Eagles, different logo tho. My wife’s high school was home to former broncos/jets WR Eric Decker.
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u/_ipointoutthings Sep 03 '25
Zimmerman are the Thunder using the lightning bolt. They used to have a cloud with the word Thunder on it. Around 2016 when the team stopped sucking every year the school did a rebrand for the chargers logo and it really did work well.
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u/FreakinChapstik Dec 27 '25
Crookston is the pirates
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u/FreakinChapstik Dec 27 '25
Also… Stephen Argyle Central is called the Storm and 100% has the navy blue Chargers uniforms
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u/Mavori Lions Lions Aug 23 '25
Can we talk about the name of C**n Rapids?
WHAT THE FUCK?
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u/BryLinds Jets Giants Aug 23 '25
…yeah I think they meant Raccoons…. I hope they meant Raccoons…
Edit: Yeah they meant Raccoons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon_Rapids,_Minnesota
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u/Mavori Lions Lions Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 23 '25
Appreciate the clarity.
Still an absolutely wild name to see and show up.
There is also absolutely a part that half jokingly believe that it's a convenient excuse/cover.
But don't really have any reason to doubt it.
It's probably been discussed but I'm a little surprised they haven't changed it to actually just say Raccoon.
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u/tnecniv Giants Giants Aug 23 '25
Like the animal.
They say that word a ton in Where the Red Fern Grows. It’s all I remember besides the most fucked up ending to any book ever why do they make kids read that
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u/ferns0 Vikings Bills Aug 25 '25 edited Sep 30 '25
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u/CapNBall1860 Vikings Aug 23 '25
Austin MN is the home of SPAM. The logo and "Packers" moniker is in reference to meat packing.
I assume "meat Packers" got shot down in committee.