Chicago Bulls "Benny the Bull" T-shirt

Salem Sportswear anchored the licensed corner of 1990s NBA merchandise with an approach no other maker matched: cartoon versions of team mascots rendered as fully muscled anthropomorphic athletes in team uniform, mid-action against exploding backgrounds, delivered with the same design intensity that arcade cabinet marquees and comic book covers were running at the time. This Bulls example lands squarely at the top of the format. The front features a hulking Benny the Bull mascot with flexed biceps, curled horns, and snarling teeth leaping mid-air with a basketball cocked over his head, ready to dunk against a fiery orange sky and Chicago skyline silhouette, boulders crumbling beneath his feet. "CHICAGO BULLS" runs across the top in yellow-and-red three-dimensional block letters, and a small Chicago Bulls team logo sits in the lower right corner as confirmation of NBA licensing.