Secret meaning to ‘eight stars’ in NFL logo revealed as fans stunned before Super Bowl 59
Have you ever studied the NFL logo up close?
If you have, you would have noticed the league's iconic shield has eight stars on it.
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And what do those eight stars represent?
While very simple, few actually know.
The eight stars represent the league's eight divisions.
The four in the AFC and the four in the NFC.
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Simple enough.
However, that wasn't always the case.
The NFL changed its logo back in 2008 to what it is today.
Not many noticed the change, and fewer even talked about it.
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The NFL logo and shield used to actually have a whopping 25 stars on it, rather than the current eight.
Each star represented what was then, the 25 teams in the league.
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Looking at the old logo can be jarring as fans have been so accustomed to the sleek design of the current shield.
Some were shocked when they found out what the old logo used to look like and what the eight stars now represent.
"I never noticed this or heard about it," one fan posted on YouTube referencing the change in 2008.
"8 stars is easier to draw than 25," one fan wrote as to why the change was made.
"Eight stars makes more sense as it represents eight divisions for 32 teams," another fan chimed in.
The NFL itself never explicitly came out and said why exactly they made the change from the 25-star-studded shield, to what it is now.
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All we know is what the stars represent.
As fans, not many people care.
They care if their own team is winning, not how many stars are on the NFL's shield.
They want to know whether or not their team is going to be lifting the Lombardi Trophy at the end of the season.
And for Eagles fans and Chiefs fans, they'll soon get that answer.
Amount of stars be damned.
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