#ifdafh.

Every Dabang Delhi Logo. Plus transparent versions.

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"Which Fucking One of Them is DD??" [*]

[[ Also, Hey - This post now has a video: here ]]

-The start of a fucking 2-day fall down an online hole.

All I wanted was to double-check my guess, but this is one of my tags under this post [link] breaking down my reactions to my screenshot [shown below] of the end of a S1 ad [link], where one can see the oldest versions of the original eight PKL team logos.

My reaction was mostly 'before this I thought the few images that came up in searches were ripoffs, not official', but the tag was specifically about Dabang Delhi's logo in particular.The rest of the original eight lineup I'd confirmed so it had to be DD, but I'd spent a few minutes squinting trying to read it. Info is fucking scarce with PKL generally, especially initial seasons, and it was the only one I couldn't pinpoint even though I'd recognized everyone else's.

It didn't look like Delhi Dabang/Dabangg [couldn't think of what else it could be when 'Delhi' was clear but not the second word] and I couldn't find anything on it so atp I was like alfuckingright maybe I just go back and change the resolution. I didn't think the video would have a higher res hence not having done that in the first place [I've got used to sifting through low res footage and photos for this blog] but it did and lo and fucking behold when I upped the res and zoomed in again it wasn't Delhi Dabang/g it was fucking Delhi Dynamos.

Which prompted me on a fucking search because when the hell have they ever been called that - this YouTube video was published 17th July 2014, just 9 days before S1 began on 26th July 2014.

But after sifting through the ISL team's logos [Football, hello - I was unaware], sifting through different season ads [it literally only shows in S1 ads] and trying every combo of keywords I could think of [I fucking reinstalled Pinterest just to look for this bullshit - no you shouldn't do the same there's basically nothing], this is apparently the best fucking pic you're gonna get. My own damn screenshot.

How Long Did This Name Even Fucking Exist, Tf

Hell, Delhi Dynamos doesn't even seem to have even lasted as a S1 team name consideration - even in the 'Sujeet Narwal - STAR Raider - Dabang Delhi' YouTube video from Star Sports [link], after upping the resolution you can clearly see Dabang Delhi at the end.

In the video you can even see the text on their jersey and the DD on the flashing sidelines, which are more to do with this pic below that keeps showing as some obscure version of the logo that I can't connect to anything yet but does appear to exist - and the text is seen in an early fan-made promo video for S2 as well [link] - so I have to consider it as another older version of Dabang Delhi's logo.

Now I cant tell if they started playing with different jersey logos initially [I looked for any other S1 footage of DD] but this Star Sports video was published on 14th Aug 2014 - the fucking season wasn't even done. S1 was from 26th July to 31st Aug 2014 and DD's first match of the season was the same day, yet there was already a name change. And in media/reports on S1 they're called Dabang Delhi, not Delhi Dynamos. I haven't found mention anywhere of the small discrepancy where all of the S1 advertisements [the ones I can find all published 17th-18th July 2014] show Delhi Dynamos, but in less than a month they're called Dabang Delhi on everything.

A Review of Kabaddi Websites

I took a final look through different official sites to see if there was anything on 'Delhi Dynamos', turns out there's barely anything in the first place so it ended up being more of a Kabaddi website review. Looked through:

the PKL website [link] - only 10 articles and one's incorrectly listed under the S1 search filter and is about S10 instead - any mentions of the team in these just list Dabang Delhi as the name.

the IKF website [link] - there's no search function and there's barely any info in the first place, the gallery is just a handful of random clipped images.

the WKF website [link] - in the longass plain text records in the News section there's only a mention of an associate membership for National Style Kabaddi being approved for 2015 at the earliest, which is the closest reference I can think of to early PKL?

the AKFI website [link] - cluttered and unsorted af but says it last updated this month still, so? Only found mentions of PKL S2 in articles under the News section - which don't seem to always be posted by the site admins and had one-liners or blocks of repeated text - and I can only ever see 25 articles bc the filter doesn't seem to work.

the AKF website [link] - nothing on PKL farther back or in general than 2017 and the entire site only has the same handful of articles from 2017, the only update being one article from 2024 - heck, Lorem Ipsum shows in several places and Overview is spelled wrong in the section's subheading.

the KhelNow website [link] - fucking terrible search function powered by Google - can't get any relevant results no matter what keywords or search functions I put in and only 3 results for 'delhi dynamos kabaddi' two of which are just the keywords extracted from the sitemap, plus I'm not going to continually click 'load more' on articles just to find something from 11 years ago so if there is a mention then site admins @ me atp.

As a final research measure I toggled open search results for the whole year of 2014 for articles on DD [keywords searched: dabang delhi, delhi dynamos kabaddi] just to be sure there really wasn't anything I could be fucking missing here, and-

There Is One Mention.

In what seems to be a blog post titled 'Pro Kabaddi league 2014 schedules fixtures online ticket booking and live telecast on TV channels' [link] by user 'Ramprasad' [a gold member it appears?], of what seems to be an educational learning site called India Study Channel, there is a brief rundown with a couple mispellings of where to watch/stream/buy tickets. But most importantly: every match listing in the schedule given states Delhi Dynamos playing. This was posted on 24th July 2014, only a week after the logo is first seen in the S1 ads and just two days before the league began airing.

Whether the name was taken from an official streaming site, one of the listed ticket booking websites, or from the advertisements themselves - idfk. But there is at least one article in existence that implies that, however brief, the name was genuinely relevant to the league and its audience for a period of time [there is a comment on the post from 1 Aug the same year].

Brief infuckingdeed, however, because in any articles I found after this date there was no mention, and they are listed as Dabang Delhi. Examples of this shit being:

31st July 2014 at the earliest, with 'Dabang Delhi owner Radha Kapoor on her plans for Pro-Kabaddi League players' The Economic Times [link] - which is just one week after that blog post; unclear what the hell happened in a week but Delhi Dynamos seems to have been discontinued or somehow irrelevant by the time this article was published. Whether this was because Dabang Delhi was possibly the name seen when the season began airing [like in the clips I could catch from the adorementioned Sujeet Narwal video from S1] is difficult to say without more info.

3rd Aug 2014 'Pro Kabaddi League Live Streaming Information: Watch Dabang Delhi vs Telugu Titans Online' IB Times [link]

4th Aug 2014 'Dabang Delhi wins hearts, loses yet another duel' PKL site [link] - I will also point out I found this shit through open search so clearly there are still more articles falling through the filter cracks on this website.

I did find some alternate references however, though it's unclear how fucking relevant they ultimately are/were:

2nd Aug 'Delhi Dabang gears up to take home advantage' - ZEENEWS [link] - it seems like this was mere reverse wordplay on the team name in reference to the city, but it did bring into brief question whether that particular phrasing was actually relevant in the league or team branding at one point.

Says it was modified on 11th Aug 'Pro-Kabaddi League 2014' Essentially Sports [link] - throughout this article it has been spelt as Dabangg Delhi, but it's unclear if this was any kind of official spelling or simply the poster's misspelling of the team name.

In conclusion

'Delhi Dynamos' only seems to appear a literal handful of times on the internet; at the end of S1 advertisements published 17th-18th July 2014 on YouTube, and in a single online blogpost by what seems to be a random fan on 24th July 2014, all of which are before the inaugural season of PKL. A week later it's never seen in articles, ads or league videos since.

Whether this was a marketing mistake, an initial name consideration for Dabang Delhi, some kind of placeholder, or a genuine official name release that was changed before the first season of this league and these are the only remnants, idfk and it looks like I might not ever will [unless I take some fucking drastic route and actually email/call the listed addresses/numbers on these sites or flood their comment sections just for details].

If literally anyone has more info on this, talk to me.

Fuck knows I may have missed something. I'll fix up and edit this shit for clear pics as much as I can but fucking hell lmao. Random detail about DD that looks like a fucking mini-mystery.