What’s the deal with high school and other youth football teams using NFL and college sports logos? Do they license it? Do they just use it without permission or legal consequence?
How about other displays around campus, like a mural? I recall helping to paint a Trojan mural on my junior high school wall that was essentially ripped off from USC.
I’ve seen high school football teams with Ram horns on the helmets.
In the old days, the NFL didn’t care. Lately, that’s not been the case. I know of two schools forced to stop using the “G” logo of the Green Bay Packers, despite it being in different colors. They received “cease and desist” letters from the NFL.
I expect you can license it, but I can’t imagine any school district in the US these days thinking they can afford to pay such a licensing fee.
I bet the Jr High was thrilled to have a condom on one its walls. 
Health Class must have been interesting that week.
I don’t get how the NFL really had a case there. Here’s the University of Georgia athletics logo. Here’s the Green Bay Packers logo. I think it’s fair to say that UGA was there first as an organization, though I don’t know about the history of the athletics logo.
High schools also steal tunes from college fight songs and write new words. And when I was in the band and the football team got a new coach, he wanted us to play a few bars of (I think, it’s been 10 years) the Michigan fight song every time they got a first down. And considering how bad the football team was, a decent drive was pretty rare.
I’m sure a big college football fan could have gone to every high school game I did for four years and told you exactly which tune each high school was using. I couldn’t, because I just don’t like college football.
Grambling also uses the G logo
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The oval “G” logo was created in 1961 by Packers equipment manager George “Dad” Braisher. The team actually used a number of different logos prior to 1961, but the “G” is the only logo that has ever appeared on the helmet.[28] Although the Packers have granted limited permission to other organizations to utilize a similar logo, notably the University of Georgia and Grambling State University, the Packers hold the trademark for it.[29] Adopted in 1964, the Georgia “G”- though different in design and color- was similar to the Packer’s “G”. Then Georgia head coach Vince Dooley thought it best to clear the use of Georgia’s new emblem with the Packers. However, since its inception in 1961, the Packer’s “G” has been redesigned several times and now looks like Georgia’s original 1964 “G.”[30]
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Brian
G, that’s interesting.
My high school uses the G in black and gold.
I know that Union HS in Tulsa settled with Miami over the U logo.
