http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000...conference

(01-15-2016 11:08 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000...conference

Mistake...need to go back to the blue and yellow...

They had a chance to rebrand. They even could have lightened the current ram head logo to blue and yellow and didn't.

Bummer. I've seen some speculation that they'll wait to sell a bunch of the current team gear before changing colors. That'd be a bit irritating but I think looking at this whole thing with a cynical eye is warranted.

They'd sell a ton of gear if they changed colors.

They will wear the Blue and Yellow on Throwback Weekends...myself would go ahead and switch to Blue and Yellow and use the Blue and White-(Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones and Roman Gabriel era) for Throwback Weekends

At least they didn't change to Colorado State colors. That would have been confusing.

(01-16-2016 05:55 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  At least they didn't change to Colorado State colors. That would have been confusing.

Green and Gold.... c'mooooooooooooon maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan


At least the current Rams colors are a shade of blue and yellow/gold.

The Rams were the first team to wear a logo on their helmet, designed and hand-painted on every player's leather helmet by one of their running backs, Fred Gehrke, and first worn by the team in 1948.

Rembrandt of the Rams

Quote:Fred Gehrke liked everything about football except the leather helmets he and his fellow NFL players had to wear. "My gosh, I loved the game," says Gehrke, 76, who was a halfback and defensive back for the Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams during the 1940s and for the Chicago Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers in 1950. "But those gosh-awful helmets we used to wear? At best, you'd have to call them dull."

So one day after the 1947 season, during which the Los Angeles Rams had gone 6-6, Gehrke took matters into his own hands. Deciding that his teammates needed inspiration, he went to coach Bob Snyder with an idea. "I told him we needed to put some kind of design on our helmets," Gehrke says. "No other team had anything like that, and I thought it was time for a change."

Gehrke, who had majored in art at the University of Utah, painted one of the team's brown helmets dark blue and then added the now familiar yellow horns. He and Snyder presented the helmet to the Rams' owner, Dan Reeves, who liked both the idea and the design. Gehrke took 75 helmets home with him that summer and decorated them all. He was paid a dollar for each paint job.

Here's one of those painted leather helmets:

Terrible choice. Should use 1970s blue and yellow. With occasional 1960s white and blue.

(01-17-2016 01:38 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  Terrible choice. Should use 1970s blue and yellow. With occasional 1960s white and blue.

^^^^^^
This...