In Pennsylvania there are a couple of Nation Football Conference franchises and one of those is Pittsburgh Steelers. Originally they were known as Pittsburgh Pirates. This football team was founded by Arther Joseph Rooney in the year 1933. The team’s name was adapted from the well-known industry of steel making that is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
By far, this franchise has been owned by the Ronneys’ since it was granted by the National Football League management. This team has had a few years on the rack for getting titles including three Super Bowl appearances in the 1960s. This team was the first of the National Football League to have had the chance to win four consecutive Super Bowl Titles from ’74 to ’79.After that it didn’t get any more glorious. It was unfortunate that it only makes one appearance every decade to the Super Bowl. Currently the franchise is in control of Dan Ronney that is Arther’s son.
Origin of the Steelers Logo
Due of the very popular steel-making industry in PA they adapted the logo belonging to the American Iron and Steel Institute also known as AISI. The creator of the logo was US Steel Corporation and ideally the logo is the word steel, three diamond shapes with different color-fill (yellow, orange and blue), all encased in a sphere with a white color-fill.
The team petitioned that the word “steel” be modified to “steelers” to AISI as required. It was granted and so the Steelers Logo was brought to existence. Also the logo is bordered by a thick circle line around the basic Steelers logo providing an outline that gives more emphasis to the entire logo. And before it was used as the official logo they had to test the appeal of the logo itself. How they tested it? They tried just incorporating the Steelers logo onto the helmets of the players only to the side, not the center. After the test-run the crowd loved it and so it was kept the same since.
The diamonds in the Steelers logo means yellow for coal, orange for ore and blue for scrap metal. The meaning of these three diamonds were worded “Steel lightens work, brightens your leisure and widens your world.” Yellow is also associated to optimism. Red is the color that compels attention. And then Blue may also have meant dependability. All these traits can contribute to success and this further conditions the players a psychologically.
Elements of the Steelers Logo
The Steelers logo has quite the number of elements in it so the word “STEELERS” was kept simple to neutralize the variation in color and to contrast with the sphere’s white color-fill. The details being more colorful allows emphasis to the basic-less-detailed word. Too much detail may result to this logo being just another art work that is displayed but not enough emphasis is given because of the conflicting attention grabbing elements in it. Other versions of this logo is simple enough using only one hue contrasting with a black background. Also, this version of the logo exudes simplicity expressing the logos capacity to become versatile.
