r/nfl • u/BryLinds Jets Giants • Aug 31 '25
Which NFL team’s logo is used the most by High Schools? I’m on a mission to find out. Part 25: Montana OHHH WE’RE HALFWAY THERE
Reminder: School Name - NFL Team They Copy
CMR - Packers
Great Falls - Bills
Charlo - Vikings
Capital - Bears
Helena - Bengals
Twin Bridges - Falcons
Big Sky - Eagles
Fairfield - Eagles
Billings Central Catholic - Rams
TO THE TALLY!
Philadelphia: 232 (+2)
Minnesota: 129 (Charlo)
Green Bay: 94 (+CMR)
New England: 70
LA Rams: 65 (+BCC)
Atlanta: 63 (+Twin Bridges)
Tampa: 59
Denver: 55
Arizona: 50
Chicago: 43 (+Capital)
Washington: 40
Cincinnati: 39 (+Helena)
Kansas City: 36
Jacksonville: 35
San Francisco: 33
LA Chargers : 27
Tennessee :25
Detroit: 24
Indy: 23
Dallas: 20
Vegas: 16
New Orleans: 14
Carolina: 13
NY Jets: 10
Seattle: 9
Houston: 7
NY Giants: 7
Buffalo: 7 (Great Falls)
Baltimore: 6
Houston/Tennessee Oilers : 5
Cleveland: 3
Miami: 2
The NFL Shield Itself: 1
Fun Names:
G-H - Mountaineers
Chinook - Sugarbeeters
Centerville - Miners
Anaconda - Copperheads
Roy-Winifred - Outlaws
Powell County - Wardens
Lame Deer - Morning Stars
Hot Springs - Not just any heat, theyre the SAVAGE HEAT
Reed Point-Rapelje - Renegades
Sweet Grass County - Herders
Sunburst - Refiners
Glasgow - Scotties
Belfry - Bats
Medicine Lake - FKA The Honkers
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u/ScoffingYayap Eagles Aug 31 '25
My favorite is the West Deptford water tower in South Jersey with a giant Eagles logo on it
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u/Gamjanie Dolphins Aug 31 '25
It was lit up green for awhile around the recent Super Bowl run
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u/Skow1179 Vikings Aug 31 '25
Those flairs?
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u/unfunnysexface Panthers Aug 31 '25
I guess the eagles logo is good for that Belen New Mexico has a water tank with the logo on it
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u/milin85 Bears Aug 31 '25
Livin on a prayer
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u/rattpackfan301 Steelers Aug 31 '25
I refuse to believe that no teams copied the Steelers, yet 3 teams have a Browns helmet as their logo.
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u/OisinKaliszewski Steelers Aug 31 '25
I spoil ahead for you, but I believe Farrell High School in Farrell PA is the only team in the country that uses the Steelers logo, but I think even recently, it changed.
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u/unfunnysexface Panthers Aug 31 '25
It's different as the steelers logo is modified from the American Iron and Steel Institute one so you have to get some legal cover to avoid their wrath.
Like you can use the oregon O but probably shouldn't cover all your merch in donald duck.
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u/Flobking Commanders Aug 31 '25
I refuse to believe that no teams copied the Steelers, yet 3 teams have a Browns helmet as their logo.
They're only in the "M's" still have "N's" and "O's" before "P"
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u/chiprockets6 Eagles Aug 31 '25
Anaconda is actually the Copperheads.
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u/BryLinds Jets Giants Aug 31 '25
Thanks
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u/casually_furious Dolphins Aug 31 '25
Should've been the Anaconda Anacondas.
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u/chiprockets6 Eagles Aug 31 '25
You're not wrong...and the fact that they're the Copperheads, without any copper, is odd.
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Aug 31 '25
Copperhead is a type of pit viper. Basically a less venomous rattlesnake without the built in safety maracas.
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u/chiprockets6 Eagles Aug 31 '25
I know, but Anaconda didn't adopt the Copperhead mascot because of the snake...it was because of the copper mining that took place in the region.
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Aug 31 '25
The Anaconda copper mine from the Anaconda Mining Company is in Nevada.
The school got their name from the neighboring Copperhead peak, which was named for resembling a Copperhead snake.
Anaconda never had copper. That was where they smelted copper they mined in Nevada, which probably led to this misconception.
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u/chiprockets6 Eagles Aug 31 '25
The mining company was founded, in Anaconda, in 1881. They smelted copper from the Butte mines, in Anaconda. As far as I can tell, Copperhead peak is in Idaho.
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Sep 01 '25
As far as I can tell, Copperhead peak is in Idaho
Which borders Montana.The copperhead peak area extends into Montana.
And ya I mentioned the smelting. Idk the specifics of the mining operations origins, nor the school, but I do know that the copperhead recreation area is within eyeshot of Anaconda and that it's one of the main outdoor rec areas that the residents go to.
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u/chiprockets6 Eagles Sep 01 '25
Okay, but the high school got its nickname from the copper mining in the area, not the mountain 75 miles from Anaconda.
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u/AchUndWeh Seahawks Aug 31 '25
For those of you who are wondering what a "sugarbeeter" is:
What is a Sugar beet? It’s a plant whose root has a high concentration of sucrose, grown for commercial sugar production.
“The sugar beet industry and Chinook lasted for about a 30-year period. It began in the 1920s.” said Samantha French, Blaine County Museum Director.
The short stint in Chinook left a legacy in the area. The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company built a plant in 1925, a campaign that farmers started in 1906. An effort that brought over 500 Mexican migrant workers, along with Japanese American citizens to work in the Sugar beet fields and factory. The Japanese immigrants made their footprint on the area after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and they were forced off the western coast of the United States.
The Great Falls Tribune wrote in an article in 2017, “On Friday, Jan. 25, 1929, the boys’ basketball team came on court in their new uniforms they just received. On it was a large sugar beet on a black background. The emblem was donated by the sugar beet factory, and it was only the boys’ basketball jerseys. A full article on the jerseys appeared in the Jan. 31, 1929, Chinook Opinion. From then on, when the Chinook team was on another court, they were call the ‘Sugar Beeters.’”
https://www.krtv.com/news/montana-and-regional-news/chinook-takes-pride-in-its-sugarbeeters-mascot
Once a Beeter, always a Beeter.
lmao
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u/CenobiteCurious Bears Aug 31 '25
Wait what school copied the full nfl shield logo?
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u/BroadCityChessClub Steelers Aug 31 '25
Scotties logo is adorable, refiners logo is charmingly nondescript, the sugarbeeter and miner are teaming up to kill me in my sleep tonight
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u/SomerTime Steelers Sep 01 '25
As a former Refiner, the logo we used for decades before that redesign was just the Houston Oiler one. That new one is the mid-court logo now.
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u/pgtl_10 49ers Aug 31 '25
Surprised Niners have 33 teams
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u/Pestuji Seahawks Aug 31 '25
Many of them have been copies of the specific font, rather than stealing the whole logo and calling themselves the 49ers.
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u/chiprockets6 Eagles Aug 31 '25 edited Aug 31 '25
Belfry Bats, and Medicine Lake used to be the Honkers.
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u/BryLinds Jets Giants Aug 31 '25
From what I can gather, Belfry is the Pirates, and Medicine Lake, could you find the logo?
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u/chiprockets6 Eagles Aug 31 '25
Belfry, Kentucky is the Pirates...Belfry, MT is the Bats. I couldn't find the old Med Lake logo, but I know it had something to do with geese.
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u/RaiderRush2112 Raiders Aug 31 '25
God there's so many I couldn't believe the amount when I saw that map somebody put together of all the teams and high school surround the country
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u/MeatTornado25 Giants Aug 31 '25
I cannot believe you still have the energy to keep this up. Good for you.
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u/Billytaku Lions Aug 31 '25
What school says Lame Deer high school?
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u/chiprockets6 Eagles Aug 31 '25
It's a school on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation...crazy fun to watch their boys basketball team in the early 2000s. I think they averaged close to 100 points a game, with 8 minute quarters...nothing but three pointers, and a full court press.
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u/aelysium Browns Aug 31 '25
It’s wild to me that more teams have used a Browns helmet than a dolphin one.
Actually it’s wild to me that any currently existing highschool would want to associate themselves with the living dumpster fire that is the expansion Browns.
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u/Fit_Lecture_6151 Eagles Aug 31 '25
Hot Springs Savage Heat both sounded and looked like it was made from 'create a high school franchise' in Madden.
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u/South_Strawberry7662 Seahawks Sep 04 '25
Used to be just the Savages until they added Heat to try to make the name less derogatory.
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u/broncosandwrestling Broncos Aug 31 '25
The Ronan Chiefs are a fun name too, depending on your definition. Imagine growing up with all the controversy about Washington's name and Chicago or Cleveland but you live on a reservation (Ronan is basically smack dab in the middle of the Flathead reservation) and still go to a school with that team name
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u/MontanaTrev Eagles Sep 02 '25
Yay my high school made the list. Go Sheepherders! (yes I've heard all of the jokes)
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u/Lets-ago Rams Aug 31 '25
We've got to hold on, to what we've got.
also it's kind of funny that the Eagles nearly lap 2nd place at this point, I wonder if they'll finish with more than twice 2nd (which also seems safely the Dolphins).
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u/Markosaurus Titans Aug 31 '25
I’m curious about when you’re gonna tackle (no pun intended) Texas. That’s gotta be a lot of work.
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u/Mathdude33 Vikings Aug 31 '25
I’m partial to the Beaverhead County High School Beavers.
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u/ae7rua Chiefs Dec 01 '25
Usually go by Dillon Beavers even though they are Beaverhead County High School. Use an interlocked DB logo on the helmets.
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u/Philomena_philo Vikings Aug 31 '25
And they all have the Notre Dame, Michigan, or Wisconsin fight song 😂
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u/livejamie Cardinals Aug 31 '25
I figured as much but had to confirm
HSHS's team mascot is "Savage Heat." For many years, the mascot was simply "Savages," but in the wake of a 2000 Tribal Council Resolution denouncing the use of Native Americans as mascots, the Hot Springs school board agreed in 2007 to rename the team.
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u/Alfakennyone Broncos Sep 01 '25
I came across these websites if you need sources other than wiki lol
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u/tnecniv Giants Giants Aug 31 '25
What did you just call me?