[St. Loser Fan]

Why is that a lie? Because St Louis fucked it all up? Not Kevin's fault

Yes, we know we deserved we got an more. Demoff and Stan had every right to lie. They can do whatever they want because they are angels and were poorly treated in St. Louis.

Anyway, I want the crap St. Louis navy blue and millennium gold gone because it reminds me of 3-13, 2-14, 1-15. It reminds me of Crazy Mike Martz. It reminds me of Jeff Fisher's 7-9 bullshit. It reminds me of Scott Linehan and Steve Spagnuolo. It reminds me of the horrible Edward Jones Done. Bring back the royal blue and yellow they won their only Super Bowl in.

[Elvis]

But as you say, even St. Louis fans were unhappy with the uniforms and the Rams have supposedly been ready to make a uniform change since back then but keep claiming that the NFL won't allow them to make a change. That they have to submit a request however many years in advance. Well, they keep saying the same thing each year but apparently never put in the actual request.

Now, they're trying to make it sound like the NFL is to blame when it's the Rams who are choosing/failing to actually get the change done.

You're mixing apples and oranges.

The plan, since relocation was to debut new uniforms at the new stadium. They informed the league in plenty of time and are now working with Nike. And it will happen. The only hiccup here is the stadium was originally gonna open in 2019 but now 2020.

The question has always been what will the league let them do in the meantime to tweak the current uniforms while they wait to switch to the new ones.

Can they wear their throwbacks more often? Can they modify the current jersey? That's the stuff the league apparently is giving them a hard time with.

The actual uniform change is on schedule and by the book. Now how much people are gonna like whatever the new unis are remains to be seen..

[moklerman]

You're mixing apples and oranges.

The plan, since relocation was to debut new uniforms at the new stadium. They informed the league in plenty of time and are now working with Nike. And it will happen. The only hiccup here is the stadium was originally gonna open in 2019 but now 2020.

The question has always been what will the league let them do in the meantime to tweak the current uniforms while they wait to switch to the new ones.

Can they wear their throwbacks more often? Can they modify the current jersey? That's the stuff the league apparently is giving them a hard time with.

The actual uniform change is on schedule and by the book. Now how much people are gonna like whatever the new unis are remains to be seen..

That's just the most recent excuse, though. They've been hinting at/promising a new uniform change since well before the move so I can't just assume that NOW they're on schedule. Even if they were on schedule with their so-called plan, it doesn't erase all of what was said before.

It's surprising to me that as much time and effort that went into the move that they were unprepared for playing in the Coliseum and still won't have new uniforms for another year or two.

[Zen_Ronin]

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2 ... l-says-no/

Rams want to wear blue and yellow uniforms more often, but NFL says no
Posted by Michael David Smith on May 11, 2018, 9:51 AM EDT


Since the Rams moved back to Los Angeles, questions have raged about which uniforms they should wear: The blue and white of Merlin Olsen in the 1960s? The blue and yellow of Eric Dickerson in the 1980s? The blue and gold of the St. Louis years? Some combination?

The Rams are working on a permanent answer, but in the meantime they’d like to wear the Dickerson-style throwbacks more. The NFL, however, has other ideas.

Rams COO Kevin Demoff says the team has asked the NFL for permission to wear the blue and yellow throwbacks more often, but the NFL limited the Rams to wearing them twice last season. Demoff said he’s working on explaining to the league office that the fans would prefer those uniforms.

“We have spent the year educating them on our fan base,” Demoff told the Los Angeles Times. “We forwarded them all of the fan complaints, the emails we get, so I think they’re well aware of our fans’ preferences.”

Demoff said the Navy blue jerseys the Rams have worn aren’t anyone’s favorite.

“It was always with the idea that we’d be able to revisit it during the offseason when there’s more time to plan,” he said. “Hopefully, they recognize the challenge we have and appreciate the connection the fan base has to the blue and yellow. If we can avoid wearing our Navy jerseys next year, we will.”

It’s a bit odd that the NFL won’t let teams wear whatever uniforms they want, but it appears that the Rams still have some work to do to convince the league to let them wear those Dickerson-style uniforms on a full-time basis.

[Elvis]

That's just the most recent excuse, though. They've been hinting at/promising a new uniform change since well before the move so I can't just assume that NOW they're on schedule. Even if they were on schedule with their so-called plan, it doesn't erase all of what was said before.

It's surprising to me that as much time and effort that went into the move that they were unprepared for playing in the Coliseum and still won't have new uniforms for another year or two.

Either you're not paying attention or your'e being disingenuous.

The plan has always been new uniforms in the new stadium. You may think it's a bad plan but they've stuck to it the whole time. They've been remarkably consistent, much to many fans dismay.

Kroenke officially became the owner in August 2010. He bid on the Dodgers in January of 2012. So the possibility of a move has been around for pretty much Kroenke's entire time as owner.

The idea that they would break out new uniforms in a city they were trying to leave is ridiculous don't you think? I mean, they didn't even know who their market was going to be.

4 years at the Coliseum instead of 3 has made a bad situation worse but the Rams have been on plan the whole time. They're just trying to avoid taking too much flack over current uniforms, and not doing a very good job of it...

[Elvis]

It's true that long-time Ram fans (like me) care a lot about the uniforms. And Kevin Demoff claims to be a long-time Ram fan -- growing up in Southern California and cheering for the Rams from a young age. And he seems to have a clear preference for the white and blue uniforms of the '60s. I think it's disingenuous of him to claim that he's surprised that fans care so much about the uniforms. But since he has a great deal of influence over the uniforms the team wears, he has a different perspective on the whole thing.

And I think the Rams organization (Stan) cares about the uniforms, but for completely different reasons than the fans. And he doesn't care a bit what others think of him for his decision-making.

BTW, i've heard it before but why do we think Demoff favors the blue and whites? Has he said so before? I guess he must have. He had a Jim Everett poster on his wall as a kid and showed up to the draft in an Everett jersey:



But more than any of that, there are so many passionate fans who demand the blue and yellow i just can't see any sense in the Rams going against that with the new color scheme.

I suppose if there's market research telling them to do something else to win over younger unaffiliated Angelenos that represent the future of Rams football they might have a tough choice on their hands but that seems like a pretty unlikely scenario to me...

[St. Loser Fan]

Just took my navy and gold St. Louis Rams folding canopy over to a friend's house so he could use it for a back yard graduation party. First time its been used since the move.

He offered to bring it back Sunday. I told him I'm in no rush.

[BuiltRamTough]

Just took my navy and gold St. Louis Rams folding canopy over to a friend's house so he could use it for a back yard graduation party. First time its been used since the move.

He offered to bring it back Sunday. I told him I'm in no rush.

Set it on fire man and put it on Twitter!

[BuiltRamTough]

Either you're not paying attention or your'e being disingenuous.

The plan has always been new uniforms in the new stadium. You may think it's a bad plan but they've stuck to it the whole time. They've been remarkably consistent, much to many fans dismay.

Kroenke officially became the owner in August 2010. He bid on the Dodgers in January of 2012. So the possibility of a move has been around for pretty much Kroenke's entire time as owner.

The idea that they would break out new uniforms in a city they were trying to leave is ridiculous don't you think? I mean, they didn't even know who their market was going to be.

4 years at the Coliseum instead of 3 has made a bad situation worse but the Rams have been on plan the whole time. They're just trying to avoid taking too much flack over current uniforms, and not doing a very good job of it...

Imo Stan wanted to move once he got full control in 2010. He probably made the decision to change the uniforms wherever/whenever he gets a new stadium.

I would’ve done the same. If you know you’re going to get a stadium in near future, why rebrand then or now?

[moklerman]

Either you're not paying attention or your'e being disingenuous.

The plan has always been new uniforms in the new stadium. You may think it's a bad plan but they've stuck to it the whole time. They've been remarkably consistent, much to many fans dismay.

Kroenke officially became the owner in August 2010. He bid on the Dodgers in January of 2012. So the possibility of a move has been around for pretty much Kroenke's entire time as owner.

The idea that they would break out new uniforms in a city they were trying to leave is ridiculous don't you think? I mean, they didn't even know who their market was going to be.

4 years at the Coliseum instead of 3 has made a bad situation worse but the Rams have been on plan the whole time. They're just trying to avoid taking too much flack over current uniforms, and not doing a very good job of it...

That doesn't match what actually happened though. They WANTED to change the uniforms once they got to the Coliseum and DID change them as much as they could. Since they weren't prepared, they weren't allowed to change them all the way to the blue & white's though.

That isn't the sign of a team that's on schedule, that the sign of a team that is either unprepared or trying to play catch-up. And that didn't happen in a vacuum. That has to be added to all of the "we can't change because the league requires 2 years of lead time" before they moved out to LA.

I really don't see how you can give them credit for having this all planned out and it's going exactly according to a schedule. They're a year behind on the stadium, they didn't get the throwbacks approved, they can't get the league to allow changes that have apparently been made since moving into the Coliseum...they're wearing a mismatched, joke of a uniform that is hideous on it's own and an insult to the uniforms they are supposedly honoring.

The uniform situation has been one big clusterfuck for YEARS now. And it STILL is. The Rams don't want to wear what they are wearing but they still can't get it taken care of.