Pitt Panthers Tapestries

Description: Pittsburgh's coliseum! Here's hoping they somehow build another someday!

Description: Pitt Panthers logo drawing created by a 10 year old.

Description: What a great year!

Description: Occasionally you would see the Pittsburgh Gladiators Arena Football team logo depicted in just dark green and gold, and with "Pittsburgh" and "Gladiators" right next to each other!

Description: Remembering the greatest play in football history, 3:41 PM on 12/23/1972!

Description: After a few games, the Maulers decided their helmet logo didn't stand out enough on tv, so they outlined the Mauler guy! And, they brightened up the orange. They also simplified the "MAULERS" wordmark in many cases to make it simpler to reproduce. This is what their updated pennant graphics likely would have looked like, had one ever been printed!

Description: Commemorate the Pittsburgh Pipers' 1967-68 Inaugural ABA Title with this team warmup-inspired t-shirt!

Description: A moment frozen in time forever, memorialized with this scoreboard graphic!

Description: After a few games in 1984, the USFL's Pittsburgh Maulers decided that their logo didn't show up well enough on television! So, they outlined the Mauler and it did pop a bit better (better than the team did at least!).

Description: The Pittsburgh Gladiators played four seasons of the "indoor war" at the Igloo! Who could forget those crazy ricochet nets, and the goalposts that were too narrow and too high!

Description: Who doesn't remember this great scene walking into the Igloo at twilight in the Mario Lemieux and early Sidney Crosby eras, or even back into the "Blue Penguins" era!

Description: We loved the "second" Maulers helmet logo, after they changed it to highlight the Mauler guy, making the logo more visible on tv. We highlighted it a bit more here!

Description: Show off your membership in Franco's Italian Army with this "FIA" shield logo commemorative t-shirt that remembers the greatest running back in Pittsburgh Steelers history!

Description: A reimagined version of the Pittsburgh Maulers' once-iconic logo!

Description: Where Maz's famous homer, the greatest Home Run in baseball history, cleared the Forbes Field wall!

Description: Though you can no longer celebrate a win with a late-night visit to Penguini's, you can celebrate one with Penguini's gear!

Description: We're not sure what happened to the Pittsburgh Coal Co. but they had an awesome sign hanging "dahntahn" once upon a time!

Description: Cathedral of Learning

Description: Mose Kelsch's Cafe Pittsburgh retro design with a vintage sports theme.

Description: Remember when they were the "Golden Panthers"? We do of course and here's a great rendition of that identity!

Description: Landmarks

Description: James Conner design for happy

Description: Celebrate the old Steel Bowl, held for more than two decades at Pitt's Fitzgerald Field House and then the Civic Arena! It featured Pitt and Duquesne annually, together with two guest teams, a great basketball celebration!

Description: A 1980s-style workout-style design for the original USFL's Pittsburgh Maulers!

Description: Duquesne Pilsener advertising signs hung on each side of the scoreboard at old Duquesne Gardens back in the 1930s!

Description: This is not a logo celebrating the 1979 Pirates! This is an actual logo from an old professional slow-pitch softball team that once called Pittsburgh home, the Pittsburgh Champions of the North American Softball League!

Description: Gold Cathedral of Learning

Description: Retro looking patch that incorporates a gold bridge, much like the ones in Pittsburgh.

Description: The left-facing Maulers helmet as it appeared in the Three Rivers Stadium souvenir stands! The purple was a bit too purple, the orange was a bit too orange, but that's the way it was printed!

Description: What a team workout shirt might have looked like for the old Pittsburgh Maulers of the USFL!

Description: In 1961-62, the Hornets were back in the AHL after a 5-year hiatus with an amazing logo that would be similar to the Penguins' future logo a few years later. It was initially rendered on a short-lived light-blue wool away jersey, but the light blue didn't show up well on black-and-white television in terms of not having enough contrast with the home team's jerseys!

Description: The echos from Three Rivers Stadium in the 1970s still roar, egged on by this familiar display! Honor the legendary Steel Curtain led by players like Mean Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, LC Greenwood, and Mel Blount. DEFENSE

Description: From the deepest part of Forbes Field, just think how many more home runs Stargell would have hit with more typical dimensions!

Description: From the days when football was played at Forbes Field!

Description: Pittsburgh's Civic Arena hosted some great Eastern 8 Tournament semis and finals in the late '70s and early '80s.

Description: Celebrate one of Pittsburgh's first football icons and a true character, and remember his great cafe!