Help with an Anniversary Logo for 2026

For the 2026 season, I'm planning for a 20th year of simulation football celebration, marking the roots of the GSL, from when I first started simulating games back in 2006.
I've been trying to come up with a logo to mark this occasion, but this kind of thing just isn't my strong suit I guess.

The basis for the logo would be to have the "20" be the most prominent part of the logo, with other text being, "Years of Simulation Football".
This logo would be placed on EFL throwback uniforms in 2026 for some teams (EFL is Electronic Football League, as I did the sim 20 years ago with some of the random prob/sim functions on a graphing calculator, like rolling dice or random card draws).

I can send or post some of the old EFL logos if that may be helpful for logo creation here.

There really isn't a timeline or formal competition here, just hoping to mutually settle on a logo I like, that fits what I'm trying to do with the throwbacks next season.

Feel free to post all ideas here, and thanks for the help!

This is where I've started out so far.
It's got the main elements I'm trying to put in here, with the 20 being prominent, the years 2006 and 2026, along with "years of simulation football", but I'm really not a fan of what I've got down so far, so I might rework this entirely.

And it's funny going back trying to put all my old uniform designs from paper to digital, as I grew up in one of the ugliest eras of uniform design. Side panels everywhere.

I have this going on. What does it need?

rbronish wrote:I have this going on. What does it need?

Didn't mean to take so long to respond to this, but I'm really liking the banner style here.
Only thing I'm thinking about is how to possibly tie in the old league logos or names, and maybe colors, but I feel like this would be close to the final product.

I ended up taking the idea of two banners, and took some inspiration from the SEC graduate logo, along with the USFL inaugural season logo from 2022 to settle on a completely different design than what I was going for initially.

This will be the final logo for 2026:


The jersey patch will have a plastic effect, like the Gridiron Bowl logo, and current Super Bowl logos on jerseys:


And example on a 2026 throwback (chose Washington here because their throwbacks aren't too dissimilar from their current uniform set)


The field version of the logo will be flat, with no gold gradient:


And example of field placement, for teams that will be using the throwbacks in 2026:

As far as which teams will be given the option to participate in this throwback program, I will ask before next season.
There are some obvious ones that line up pretty well with some current teams, either by city or name. Some teams made a direct move to the GSL as an original 6 team in 2020.
I have 16 teams where part of my original simulation league, that started out based solely on specific colors, before moving to full designed teams.
Anyways, these are the cities and names of the throwback teams, and the teams that will be wearing the throwbacks will be determined by the end of next off season (if not sooner).

Carolina Riptides (inspiration for Breakers original 6 GSL team, team based in Charlotte, NC)
Chesapeake Hawks (team based in Annapolis, MD)
Colorado Golden Eagles (team based in Bolder, CO)
Dallas Stealth
Green Bay Foresters
Kansas City Cool
Las Vegas Lightning
Los Angeles Sharks
Louisiana Royals (inspiration for Royals original 6 GSL team, team based in New Orleans, LA)
Memphis Blues
Miami Rays
Oklahoma Outlaws (inspiration for Outlaws original 6 GSL team, team based in Norman, OK)
Phoenix Flames
San Francisco Gold
St. Louis Arches
Washington Stars (inspiration for Stars original 6 GSL team)

Austin Snelick wrote:As far as which teams will be given the option to participate in this throwback program, I will ask before next season.
There are some obvious ones that line up pretty well with some current teams, either by city or name. Some teams made a direct move to the GSL as an original 6 team in 2020.
I have 16 teams where part of my original simulation league, that started out based solely on specific colors, before moving to full designed teams.
Anyways, these are the cities and names of the throwback teams, and the teams that will be wearing the throwbacks will be determined by the end of next off season (if not sooner).

Carolina Riptides (inspiration for Breakers original 6 GSL team, team based in Charlotte, NC)
Chesapeake Hawks (team based in Annapolis, MD)
Colorado Golden Eagles (team based in Bolder, CO)
Dallas Stealth
Green Bay Foresters
Kansas City Cool
Las Vegas Lightning
Los Angeles Sharks
Louisiana Royals (inspiration for Royals original 6 GSL team, team based in New Orleans, LA)
Memphis Blues
Miami Rays
Oklahoma Outlaws (inspiration for Outlaws original 6 GSL team, team based in Norman, OK)
Phoenix Flames
San Francisco Gold
St. Louis Arches
Washington Stars (inspiration for Stars original 6 GSL team)

The Stags wouldn't mind hosting one of our Green Bay games as a throwback game in Green Bay as the Green Bay Foresters

Patrick Davis wrote:The Stags wouldn't mind hosting  one of our Green Bay games as a throwback game in Green Bay as the Green Bay Foresters

That would be great!

The plan is that each team that ops in to taking on a throwback team would have one home game with throwback uniforms and fields, as well as an away game with throwback uniforms.
The hope would be, depending on scheduling, that the throwback away uniform would be worn against another one of the old EFL teams, who's hosting the throwback game.
So two total for the season, unless the team opted to wear the throwbacks more (owners choice).

The Brewers would be open to a throwback. The St. Louis team makes sense for us.

The Miami SOL would also like to participate with a throwback game, as the Miami Rays!

John

Would the Riptides be represented by the Reapers or Breakers?

The Demons would be up for throwbacks as well.