Raiders Primary Logo
For over 60+ years, the Las Vegas Raiders franchise has made its mark in the National Football League. It’s no doubt that this franchise is nomadic. The franchise had moved from Oakland to Los Angeles and back to Oakland again. Now, they reside in Sin City.
With one AFL Championship and three Super Bowl championships to their credit, there have been many great times for fans of Raider Nation. This is the franchise of legends such as John Madden, Charles Woodson, and Tim Brown.
Undoubtedly, the logo history of the Raiders is vast. However, the foundational aspect of all of these logos is the iconic logo of a pirate with an eye patch over his right eye and a black football helmet. This can be seen on every logo that they have ever had.
It is well known that the predominant color scheme of the Las Vegas Raiders is silver and black. This will be represented in many different forms in the logo history that you will see on this page. However, many of you may not know that the Raiders were first represented by a color combination of black and gold. This lasted only two years. Other than that, the Silver and Black reigned supreme as the main identifier of the Oakland Raiders.
2020 - Present
In 2020, Las Vegas Raiders have added a black outline to their shield that consists of the wordmark “RAIDERS” at the top, two crossed cutlasses with handles up and cutting edge down, and superimposed head of a Raider wearing a football helmet and a black eye patch covering his right eye.
1964 - 1981, 1995 - 2019
The Raiders logo continued as a shield that consists of the wordmark “RAIDERS” at the top, two crossed cutlasses with handles up and cutting edge down, and superimposed head of a Raider wearing a football helmet and a black eye patch covering his right eye.
1982 - 1994
No changes to the logo that accompanied the team to Los Angeles.
1963
Al Davis scrapped the black and gold color scheme for a sleeker, sexier silver and black look, and spiced up the logo adding the wordmark “THE OAKLAND RAIDERS” to the top and crossed swords in behind the likeness of actor Randolph Scott, the man whom the Raider pirate is modeled after and an actor famous for his many star turns in Western films in the 1950’s.
1960 - 1962
Chet Soda, the Raiders’ first general partner hired a well known sportswriter Gene Lawrence Perry as the first Director of Public Relations of the Raiders. Perry (who was hired in 1959 as the first front office hire) commissioned an unknown Berkeley artist and asked that a logo be created to include a helmeted man with an eyepatch and with a firm chin of a Randolph Scott, a well known Westerns actor.
The created logo for their newly minted Raiders, a pirate wearing a football helmet with an eye patch on a gold football background. Two white swords in black trim with gold handles criss cross behind the football.