Editing End zone (section)

== Livery ==
[[File:XflNight.JPG|thumb|right|An [[XFL (2001)|XFL]] field, including end zone featuring the league's logo]]
Most professional and collegiate teams have their [[logo]] ([[livery]]), team name, or both painted on the surface of the end zone, with team colors filling the background. Many championship and bowl games at college and professional level are commemorated by the names of the opposing teams each being painted in one of the opposite end zones. In some leagues, along with bowl games, local, national, or bowl game sponsors may also have their logos placed in the end zone. In the CFL, fully painted end zones are nonexistent, though some feature club logos or sponsors. Additionally, the Canadian end zone, being a live-ball part of the field, often features yardage dashes (usually marked every five yards), not unlike the field of play itself.

In many places, particularly in smaller high schools and colleges, end zones are undecorated, or have plain white diagonal stripes spaced several yards apart, in lieu of colors and decorations. One notable use of this design in major [[college football]] is the [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame Fighting Irish]], who have both end zones at [[Notre Dame Stadium]] painted with nine diagonal 42º white lines at each end signifying Notre Dame's founding in 1842 (eighteen lines at 42º) and directed towards the [[Main Building (University of Notre Dame)|Main Building]] and its golden dome.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fightingirish.com/football-simplicity-order-of-the-day-at-notre-dame-stadium/|title=Simplicity Order of the Day At Notre Dame Stadium|last=Heisler|first=John|date=27 September 2018|work=Notre Dame Athletics|publisher=Notre Dame University|access-date=4 January 2025}}</ref> In professional football, since 2004, the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] of the NFL have the south end zone at [[Acrisure Stadium]] (formerly Heinz Field) painted with diagonal-lines during most of the regular season, with the north end zone featuring only the city name of [[Pittsburgh]] in yellow. This is done because Acrisure Stadium, which has a natural grass playing surface, is also home to the [[Pittsburgh Panthers football|Pittsburgh Panthers]] of college football and the markings simplify field conversion between the two teams' respective field markings and logos, with both teams sharing a secondary yellow color, but each having different primary colors. After the Panthers' season is over, the Steelers logo is painted in the south end zone.<ref>{{cite news |title=What happened to the gold-colored end zones? |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers-questions/2009/10/24/What-happened-to-the-gold-colored-end-zones/stories/200910240155 |author=Bouchette, Ed |date=October 24, 2009 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |access-date=August 22, 2020 |archive-date=October 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231024014548/https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers-questions/2009/10/24/What-happened-to-the-gold-colored-end-zones/stories/200910240155 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Likewise, some end zones are painted in tribute to a recently deceased team figure or fan, as is done with the Steelers' [[AFC North]] rival [[Baltimore Ravens]] at [[M&T Bank Stadium]], where the city name is painted as usual in the end zone, except for the "MO" portion, which is painted in gold, white or black in tribute to the late [[Mo Gaba]], a young fan of both the Ravens and [[Baltimore Orioles|Orioles]].<ref name=pennlive>{{Cite web|last=Kasinitz|first=Aaron|date=September 28, 2020|title=Why Baltimore Ravens' end zone has 'MO' painted in purple|url=https://www.pennlive.com/baltimore-ravens/2020/09/why-baltimore-ravens-end-zone-has-mo-painted-in-purple.html#:~:text=To%20honor%20Gaba%2C%20a%20group,of%20its%20games%20this%20season.|access-date=2020-10-01|language=en-US}}</ref>

One of the major quirks of the [[American Football League]] was its use of unusual patterns such as [[argyle (pattern)|argyle]] in its end zones, a tradition revived in 2009 by the [[Denver Broncos]] to celebrate the team's 50th anniversary, Denver itself a former AFL team. The original [[XFL (2001)|XFL]] standardized its playing fields so that all eight of its teams had uniform fields with the XFL logo in each end zone and no team identification.