The rollout for the Washington Commanders could have gone better.
The name was leaked early both when the team transferred the domain URL for its website to the NFL's primary domain host, and a helicopter reporter spotted the new name within the walls of FedEx Field. Now people are wondering why the logo appears to feature the incorrect years for Washington's title-winning teams.
The Super Bowl years are wrong. You refer to the year in which the season started. https://t.co/ZJbLQz1Ad4
— Matt Warner (@warnerm1416) February 2, 2022
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As many have pointed out, the years aren't correct. Teams that win the Super Bowl don't generally claim the exact year that the Super Bowl takes place. It goes to the team in which the majority of the season is played.
Washington won the Super Bowl in its 1981, 1987 and 1991 seasons. Yet the logo has 1982, 1988 and 1992, which were the years in which the title game took place.
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Washington won NFL Championships back in 1937 and 1942, but unlike the Super Bowl, the game back then took place in December, so both the year of the season and the final game are the same.
The first NFL Championship Game played in the year following the majority of the season came in 1965. The last NFL Championship was also played in the new year, and every Super Bowl has been played in either January or February.
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