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Commanders update crest for championship titles

By Zac Wassink | Last updated Feb 22, 2022 4:46 PM ET

For better or for worse, depending on one's point of view, the former Washington Football Team officially rebranded as the Washington Commanders earlier this month. However, the club's fans couldn't help but notice that the team's new crest that included years for the five championships the franchise has won throughout its history were for the dates the titles were won and not the seasons linked with those triumphs.

As Nick Shook pointed out for the NFL's website, the Commanders righted that wrong on Tuesday.

We heard you loud and clear

Going forward, our crest will reflect our Super Bowl victories using the year from that regular season pic.twitter.com/irndw0DyaK
— Washington Commanders (@Commanders) February 22, 2022

"We have begun the process of updating our crest online and with vendors," Washington announced in a statement released Tuesday. "For fans that have pre-ordered a jersey, the jersey will feature the updated crest and will begin shipping by early July. Licensees are in the process of creating new merchandise with the revised crest and the new merchandise will be in market as soon as possible."

While "Crestgate" wasn't all that big of a miscue in the grand scheme of things, one would think somebody associated with the Commanders would've quickly realized NFL championships are always associated with the years of seasons. Shook noted the Los Angeles Rams won the NFL title for 2021 even though Super Bowl LVI was played earlier in February and well past New Year's Day celebrations.

In the end, though, this seems to be a "no harm, no foul" matter.

Zac Wassink

Zac Wassink is a longtime sports news writer and PFWA member who began his career in 2006 and has had his work featured on Yardbarker, MSN, Yahoo Sports and Bleacher Report. He is also a football and futbol aficionado who is probably yelling about Tottenham Hotspur at the moment and who chanted for Matt Harvey to start the ninth inning of Game 5 of the 2015 World Series at Citi Field. You can find him on X at @ZacWassink

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