Rams announce they are going with home whites all season

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August 12, 2016 at 7:22 am #50654

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Rams will wear white uniforms for home games this season

http://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/la-sp-rams-uniforms-20160811-snap-story.html

The Rams announced Thursday that they will wear white uniforms at home this season.

The Rams had blue and white uniforms in the mid-1960s and then changed to blue, yellow and white in the ’70s. The St. Louis Rams colors were blue, gold and white.

“In the days of the Fearsome Foursome, the Rams used to wear white on white — so this is a modern nod back to our history in the Coliseum and in Los Angeles,” the Rams said in a statement.

The Rams will wear throwback royal blue uniforms for two games this season, the team said. The games have not been determined.

Kevin Demoff, chief operating officer and executive vice president for football operations, has said that the Rams will roll out new uniforms in the 2019 season, when they are scheduled to move into a new stadium in Inglewood.

August 12, 2016 at 8:01 am #50658

bnw
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St. Louis football Cardinals used to do that and they never won squat too.

The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

Sprinkles are for winners.

August 12, 2016 at 8:10 am #50661

zn
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bnw wrote:

St. Louis football Cardinals used to do that and they never won squat too.

Actually they’re emulating the old whites and blues, back when they won a lot.

August 12, 2016 at 8:27 am #50667

zn
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http://www.ocregister.com/articles/goff-725488-fisher-game.html

ALL WHITE NOW

The Rams will wear all-white uniforms in their two preseason games at the Coliseum and in five of their seven regular-season games at the Coliseum, the team announced Thursday.

In the other two games – dates yet to be announced – the Rams will wear the blue and gold uniforms they sported before their 1995 move to St. Louis.

Many fans have clamored for a return to those familiar jerseys, but NFL rules prohibited the Rams from switching back to them full-time this season. Fans won’t see the darker St. Louis jerseys, as the team will go with the all-white theme, similar to what the team used at the Coliseum in the 1960s and 1970s.

August 12, 2016 at 8:31 am #50668

bnw
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zn wrote:

bnw wrote:

St. Louis football Cardinals used to do that and they never won squat too.

Actually they’re emulating the old whites and blues, back when they won a lot.

Yes but NEVER a Super Bowl!

The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

Sprinkles are for winners.

August 12, 2016 at 9:10 am #50673

zn
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bnw wrote:

Yes but NEVER a Super Bowl!

They won a pre-superbowl championship in 1945.

Then again in 1951. Championship. Before the superbowl.

And then they lost one in 1979 (though it was a great game).

Then they won one in 99.

Then they lost one in 2001.

See, to me? Same team, same history. A championship in 3 different cities (Cleveland, LA, St. Louis).

There’s different perspectives. One way to approach that is to announce your perspective several times a day in case no one gets it yet. Another way to approach that is to assume there’s different groups with different perspectives and we all belong to the same community here.

August 12, 2016 at 10:48 am #50679

PA Ram
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Yes but the gold on the helmets looks goofy.

I get it though.

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

August 12, 2016 at 11:47 am #50683

NERam
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zn wrote:

Another way to approach that is to assume there’s different groups with different perspectives and we all belong to the same community here.

I agree with that.

I’ve been following the Rams from a little podunk town in CT since 1967. They were never local for me, always 3000 miles away. I fell in love with the team, the name, the helmets, the QB and the DL. I’ve never needed them to be in my city or state to follow them.

As a matter of fact, when Kraft was engaged in talks with the Governor of CT about moving the Patriots to Hartford, I never once considered changing my favorite team simply because they might have a stadium close to where I live. I was excited only because it meant that NFL games would be 40 minutes away, and once every so often, the Rams might be coming to Hartford. My grudge against Kraft was how he used the CT stadium talks to leverage a new stadium in MA, and made the Governor look stupid because he thought the talks were in earnest. And, of course, multiple occasions of the Patriots doing questionable things to improve their record just fuels the grudge.

So, I do understand the feelings of disgust and hatred toward the owners who play others as puppets for their own gain, and the feeling of betrayal when crap like this happens. I do.

I also know that its possible to root for a team that is located 3000 miles away. I’ve been doing it for 49 years.

August 12, 2016 at 12:08 pm #50687

bnw
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zn wrote:

bnw wrote:

Yes but NEVER a Super Bowl!

They won a pre-superbowl championship in 1945.

Then again in 1951. Championship. Before the superbowl.

And then they lost one in 1979 (though it was a great game).

Then they won one in 99.

Then they lost one in 2001.

See, to me? Same team, same history. A championship in 3 different cities (Cleveland, LA, St. Louis).

There’s different perspectives. One way to approach that is to announce your perspective several times a day in case no one gets it yet. Another way to approach that is to assume there’s different groups with different perspectives and we all belong to the same community here.

Still not a Super Bowl winner in the all white uni history. Regarding the perspectives I’m firmly in the former until StanK makes amends. JT summed it up well.

The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

Sprinkles are for winners.

August 12, 2016 at 2:34 pm #50694

Ozoneranger
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In my opinion, this serves two purposes. One, to cleanse ST. Louis from the franchise. Two, it’s really hot in LA even in December. White reflects heat, right? And they probably want the opposition to fry.

I just hope that in the few games they don’t wear white jerseys (most teams play in their dark jerseys at home), the raspberries stay locked away.

August 12, 2016 at 3:03 pm #50696

joemad
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Cowboys always wear whites at home too…

Allows the visiting team to wear their home colors on the road when they visit Dallas and now Los Angeles.

I wonder if this is a Jerry Jones influenced thing to Stan or a Tex Schram thing that influenced Dallas when Tex left the Rams for the Cowboys.

BTW, NERams, when the Rams were considering moving from So Cal to STL, the Rams also considered Hartford and Baltimore. The Baltimore Rams or the Hartford ESPN Rams….had that happened….. do you think St Louis might have ended up with Art Model’s Browns (Ravens)?

August 12, 2016 at 3:59 pm #50702

bnw
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joemad wrote:

Cowboys always wear whites at home too…

Allows the visiting team to wear their home colors on the road when they visit Dallas and now Los Angeles.

I wonder if this is a Jerry Jones influenced thing to Stan or a Tex Schram thing that influenced Dallas when Tex left the Rams for the Cowboys.

BTW, NERams, when the Rams were considering moving from So Cal to STL, the Rams also considered Hartford and Baltimore. The Baltimore Rams or the Hartford ESPN Rams….had that happened….. do you think St Louis might have ended up with Art Model’s Browns (Ravens)?

Or the Jaguars franchise.

The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

Sprinkles are for winners.

August 12, 2016 at 4:07 pm #50703

NERam
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joemad wrote:

BTW, NERams, when the Rams were considering moving from So Cal to STL, the Rams also considered Hartford and Baltimore. The Baltimore Rams or the Hartford ESPN Rams….had that happened….. do you think St Louis might have ended up with Art Model’s Browns (Ravens)?

Interesting point. There was a lot going on around that time… Had that happened, would they then have become The St. Louis Browns? Did that name have to stay in Cleveland? Annnnd, where would the GST have been formed? In the Dome or the open air “colosseum” stadium proposed for Hartford?

August 12, 2016 at 6:55 pm #50719

InvaderRam
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as long as they keep the horns i’m ok.

mess with the horns, and i might get seriously upset.
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