By John Turney
The Rams call the "bolder," but they just removed the nonsense. The wordmarks everywhere, the gradient numerals, the split horn shoulder stripe. All those things are better. The egregious horn on the helment, though, remains.
Good.
The short horn was not going to change; they are just too committed to it, so that is life -- you can't have everything, but overall, these look like modern updates of the old Rams uniforms and that is a good thing.
The bottom line is that these are an upgrade. Slowly but surely, the Nike design of the last decade and a half is being reverted to more classic looks or what amounts to modern versions of classic looks.
The Browns, Jaguars, Lions, Falcons, Commanders and now Rams, some of the worst things Nike did, are now all gone.
Good.
However, there is more. The Rams also posted that there are two more uniforms coming this summer. Speculation is that one will be a yellow jersey to celebrade the days of Crazylegs Hirsch, Tom Fears, Bob Waterfield, Norm Van Brocklin, Deacon Dan Towler, Tank Younger.
We'll see.
Grade: B (pending the two new kits yet to be released)
John, presumably you agree that the mid-1950s yellow jersey teams were the BEST Rams unis......what I don't understand about the "modern" interpretation of the helmet, is w-t-f is the rationale behind the split Rams horn?.....would seriously appreciate a clarification....the "bone" was beyond stupid and great to be rid of it......(rhetorical): why does Phil Knight hate history?
ReplyDeletemy understanding is the spit horn was to have a 3-D effect. Not that they achieved one, but that was supposedly the idea. The 1950s yellows were excellent, not my favorite, though. But they were iconic and recognizable and set off the horn well. Cannot take that away from them.
ReplyDeleteAt least they look like the Rams. Hated the Y2K gold. Yellow and blue @ home, white and blue on the road. Set it and forget it.
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