Logos and uniforms of the Chicago Bears

Background

As the Decatur Staleys in 1920 the team used the A. E. Staley company logo and wore red jerseys with brown vertical stripes, a 1920s style in which canvas strips helped players grip the rounder ball. The first Bears logo, a black bear running with a football, came in 1940, followed in 1946 by a navy blue bear on top of a football. The wishbone C arrived in 1962, when helmet logos were becoming common; it closely resembles the University of Chicago Maroons' C and changed mainly in 1974, when it became orange with white and navy trim. A bear head was introduced in 1963 and a revised orange bear head in 1999, which the team made its primary logo in 2023. From the 1940s to the late 1960s the Bears wore helmets made by Chicago-based Wilson rather than Riddell; the facemasks turned from gray to dark blue in 1982.