NFL team with Names on jerseys.

[kippy1040]

I have a general question that some of you may be able to answer. I would
like to know what was the First team in Professional Football to have their own personal names on the back of thier jerseys. Was it the Browns? I just can't remember. What team was it.

[MililaniBuckeye]

Didn't the AFL start that when they formed in 1960 or so? I don't recall any of the original NFL teams having names on their jerseys until afterwards.

[sandgk]

I don't know about the first, but an equally interesting question is -- who was the last to add names? Chicago added theirs in the 70's -- any advance on Da Bears?

OK - closing the loop of Mili's comments

Here is the official on ALL teams with names on jerseys per nfl.com

1970
Kansas City defeated Minnesota 23-7 in Super Bowl IV at New Orleans, January 11. The gross receipts of approximately $3.8 million were the largest ever for a one-day sports event.

Four-year television contracts, under which CBS would televise all NFC games and NBC all AFC games (except Monday night games) and the two would divide televising the Super Bowl and AFC-NFC Pro Bowl games, were announced, January 26.

Art Modell resigned as president of the NFL, March 12. Milt Woodard resigned as president of the AFL, March 13. Lamar Hunt was elected president of the AFC and George Halas was elected president of the NFC, March 19.

The merged 26-team league adopted rules changes putting names on the backs of players' jerseys, making a point after touchdown worth only one point, and making the scoreboard clock the official timing device of the game, March 18.

The Players Negotiating Committee and the NFL Players Association announced a four-year agreement guaranteeing approximately $4,535,000 annually to player pension and insurance benefits, August 3. The owners also agreed to contribute $250,000 annually to improve or implement items such as disability payments, widows' benefits, maternity benefits, and dental benefits. The agreement also provided for increased preseason game and per diem payments, averaging approximately $2.6 million annually.

The Pittsburgh Steelers moved into Three Rivers Stadium. The Cincinnati Bengals moved to Riverfront Stadium.

Lombardi died of cancer at 57, September 3.

The Super Bowl trophy was renamed the Vince Lombardi trophy, September 10. Tom Dempsey of New Orleans kicked a game-winning NFL-record 63-yard field goal against Detroit, November 8.

HUMOR -- Saw this - on old SportsPickle -- the last line kills me.

<TABLE class=contentpaneopen cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=contentheading width="100%">Humor: NFL Dreads Drafting of 'Dickface' </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=contentpaneopen cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width="70%">By DJ Gallo </TD><TD vAlign=top align=right></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2>Friday, April 22, 2005
The following is rated 'P' for Parody.

(SPORTSPICKLE)-- Forced to deal with yet another controversy over personalized jerseys sold on its NFLShop.com site last week – this time for Michael Vick’s alias "Ron Mexico" – league officials are crossing their fingers that Ed Dickface, a linebacker for Texas State, will not be selected in this weekend’s NFL draft.

Dickface – projected as a mid to late round pick – could force the league to add yet another entry to its list of words and names banned from NFL-licensed jerseys, an increasingly common practice and something that has brought unwanted attention and embarrassment to the league in past months. In February, a controversy erupted when it was reported that the league did not allow the word "GAY" from its jerseys, even though an actual NFL player – Randall Gay of the Patriots – has the name. Then came removal of "MEXICO" last week when customers tried to order No. 7 Falcons jerseys personalized with the name Vick reportedly used as a pseudonym to get treated for genital herpes.

Now "DICKFACE" could be next.



"That Dickface could really muck things up for us again," said NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy. "As of now, DICKFACE isn’t one of our banned words, but it very well might be if he gets drafted. We can’t have thousands of people across the country walking around in NFL apparel with the word DICKFACE across the back. I don’t care if that’s his real name or not – it’s not a positive image for us to be projecting."

Most scouts think it’s almost a certainty that Dickface will be drafted and that the NFL will be forced to deal with the jersey implications.

"Hey, nobody wants a dickface on their team," said Kevin Colbert, the Steelers director of football operations. "But most everyone would want this Dickface on their team. He can really play. If he’s still available in the later rounds, we’ll gladly call his name and slap DICKFACE across the back of a Steelers jersey."

Dickface has dealt with jersey issues throughout his football career.

"Our team had player names on the back of jerseys for years," said Tom McGee, Dickface’s high school coach at Plains Park High in Omaha, Nebraska. "But when Ed made varsity his sophomore year, we ended the practice until he graduated. We’re in a pretty conservative area and a lot of people were offended by the thought of having DICKFACE on a jersey, even though that is his name. I think it might be Welsh."

Dickface said he just wants to play in the NFL, and won’t let his unusual surname cause a distraction. He even hopes to see his name and number retired by an NFL team some day.

"People have razzed me since I was a little kid because of my name," said Dickface. "It was always ‘Dickface’ this, and ‘Dickface’ that. Although, now that I think about it, maybe they weren’t making fun of me at all and were just calling me by my name. It’s hard to tell."

Dickface says he once considered changing his last name to his mother’s maiden name, but then decided against it.

"My mom’s name was ‘Fartsmith,’ and that’s probably no better than ‘Dickface,’" said Dickface.

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[kippy1040]

Maybe Mililani is right on the AFL jerseys of the 60's. I do know that the Kansas City Chiefs had name on thier jerseys in the 1967 1st super Bowl and Green Bay did not. So maybe there was a policy permitting for AFL players and
none existing for the NFL yet during those years. But it would be interesting to find out officially anyway. Just having fun here.

[Misanthrope]

Originally Posted by kippy1040

Maybe Mililani is right on the AFL jerseys of the 60's. I do know that the Kansas City Chiefs had name on thier jerseys in the 1967 1st super Bowl and Green Bay did not. So maybe there was a policy permitting for AFL players and
none existing for the NFL yet during those years. But it would be interesting to find out officially anyway. Just having fun here.

sandgk already found the official answer:

Art Modell resigned as president of the NFL, March 12. Milt Woodard resigned as president of the AFL, March 13. Lamar Hunt was elected president of the AFC and George Halas was elected president of the NFC, March 19.

The merged 26-team league adopted rules changes putting names on the backs of players' jerseys, making a point after touchdown worth only one point, and making the scoreboard clock the official timing device of the game, March 18.