Patriots Have NFL's Worst Logo, Second-Most Loyal Fans, Says Website

The New England Patriots are all over the spectrum, according to one website.

USA TODAY Sports’ For the Win blog, like many sports blogs, is gearing up for the 2015 NFL season by looking at the league through several lenses. The popular site ranked all 32 teams this week according to their logos and fan loyalty. The Patriots ranked very high on one list and at the bottom of the other.

According to For the Win, the Patriots have the worst logo in the NFL. They ranked just below the Tennessee Titans (28th), Cincinnati Bengals (29th), Baltimore Ravens (30th) and Philadelphia Eagles (31), who rounded out the rest of FTW’s bottom five. The Dallas Cowboys, conversely, have the league’s best logo. The Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers ranked second and third, respectively.

The article’s author, Chris Chase, wrote of the Patriots’ logo: “All Spy- and Deflategate jokes aside, all disregard for Bill Belichick and disdain of the smugness of Tom Brady and his WEEI interviews: This logo is all horrendous. The Jay Leno chin? The trailing red lines of the helmet? The white star that is supposed to represent the flag but looks like the world’s most unfortunate birthmark? Awful. This has been called the Flying Elvis logo, but a flying Elvis would be infinitely cooler.”

Patriots fans can take solace in that while For the Win isn’t too jacked and pumped about New England’s duds, the same author thinks very highly of the organization’s fan base. According to FTW, the Patriots have the league’s second-most loyal fans, behind only the Seattle Seahawks, who, of course, retired the No. 12 in honor of their boisterous supporters.

Chase writes of the Patriots: “All kidding aside here — which, between Bill Simmons’ rants, the misspelled tomes of Patriots fans and WEEI’s blind, self-congratulatory love of all things Tom Brady — it has to be really hard to be a Pats fan right now. You have four Super Bowl titles, as many as any single team has in a definable era, and all you do is stay on the defensive about PSI, Roger Goodell, spy cameras and dumpster diving. It must be exhausting. I had a serious conversation about this with a colleague yesterday and we both agreed we’d rather be Bills fans. Seriously. Winning without the ability to gloat freely is barely winning at all.”

These two topics obviously don’t matter all that much. Plus, it’s just one website’s opinions. Debating logos and fan bases makes for good barroom banter, though. And it’s the perfect time of year for such.