The Dallas Mavericks logo is pretty standard until you look closely at the horse’s forehead and notice an ‘M.’
The alternate logo for the Arizona Diamondbacks features a ‘d’ and ‘b’ side-to-side. The letters also form the head of a snake with the negative space in the ‘d’ and ‘b’ being the eyes and the base of the letters having a snake tongue sticking out.
The Atlanta Falcons logo has an ‘F’ that outlines the wing and the outstretched claw.
The New York Islanders logo has the outline of Long Island in between the NY and Islanders, and the ‘I’ in “Islanders” helpfully indicates the geographical location of Nassau Coliseum on Long Island.
For the longest time many people thought the Montreal Expos logo was ‘elb’ but it acutally is an upper case ‘M’ in the team’s colors. The ‘e’ and ‘b’ on the sides of the ‘M’ are significant in that they represent Expos Baseball.
A popular theory says that the letters are actually “EJB,” the initials of Elizabeth Bronfman, the daughter of a former Expos owner.
The ‘J’ in the original Winnipeg Jets logo is also a hockey stick.
The new Winnipeg Jets logo features a not-so-subtle maple leaf below the jet, and also the notch at the top of the logo signifies north and a nod to the team’s owners, True North Sports & Entertainment.
The new Big Ten Conference logo is on top, and it features “BIG” large type with the ‘I’ and the ‘G’ in the shape of the number 10 (even though the conference has more than 10 teams).
On the bottom is the conference’s old logo, when they had eleven teams but still kept the same name. In the negative space around the ‘T’ you can see the numeral 11, representing the number of teams in the conference at the time.
The Blues logo doesn’t have any hidden letters or shapes, but many people believe it has a hidden meaning. The winged note bears a striking resemblance to a 64th note. St. Louis was founded in 1764.
The secondary logo for the Washington Capitals has an eagle in the shape of a ‘W’ and at the base of an eagle the negative space forms the Capitol building.
The beard of the wizard above helps create a ‘W’ for the Washington Wizards secondary logo.
The iconic old school Milwaukee Brewers logo was a blue and yellow glove catching a ball. But if you look closely the glove is formed with a lower case ‘m’ at the top and a lower case ‘b’ on the side to represent the initials of the team.
If you look at the underline in the Twins logo you can see it goes under “win,” suggesting what every fan in Minnesota wants the team to do on a daily basis.
If you look at the lion’s mane you can see ‘UAPB’ which represents the initials of University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, which is their logo.
The now defunct Quebec Nordiques’ logo was a ‘n’ next to a hickey stick, but it also formed an igloo.
This one isn’t too crazy. The axe in the logo is in the shape of a ‘T’ for the Portland Timbers.
The Washington State logo is of their mascot, a cougar, but the cougar is made using the initials of the school, “WSU.”
