DustDevil61 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 "The Rams considered 15-20 color combinations when changing uniforms in 2000. Frontiere went with "new century gold" and "millennium blue" because the combination "made cosmic sense" entering the 21st century, even though she thought other colors looked better" But yeah I'm pretty sure it was all set for 2000 because they did the change after the Rams won the Super Bowl. I am curious what the other combinations would have been? .I think that just about says everything about the Rams' current look. Of course, this is an owner who's blamed her team's misfortunes on "Mercury being in retrograde" or something to that effect. Powder blue/gold would've be interesting. http://i.imgur.com/Pyc5qRH.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/RDXvxFE.gif LED Sig Credits to packerfan21396 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschoolvikings Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 But there are good times with those unis (and more like 4-5 good years with a couple years of mediocrity where they still had a chance to win a lot of games before their decade of bad decisions caught up with them.) Excepting the 1999 squad which became more iconic in the current colors, those good times aren't there with the Banks unis.Besides, if the Rams hadn't blown the paperwork deadline for the uniform change (as typical) they would have worn the current colors in 1999. What they are wearing now is what they should have won the Super Bowl in. To say "they won the Super Bowl in the Banks uniforms" just serves to remind me how mind-numblingly incompetent Frontiere and her cronies could be at times.OK, seriously... you HAVE to stop calling the royal and gold uniform the "Banks uniform". It's ridiculas. It's making your whole arguement seem silly. http://dstewartpaint.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSU151 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 But there are good times with those unis (and more like 4-5 good years with a couple years of mediocrity where they still had a chance to win a lot of games before their decade of bad decisions caught up with them.) Excepting the 1999 squad which became more iconic in the current colors, those good times aren't there with the Banks unis.Besides, if the Rams hadn't blown the paperwork deadline for the uniform change (as typical) they would have worn the current colors in 1999. What they are wearing now is what they should have won the Super Bowl in. To say "they won the Super Bowl in the Banks uniforms" just serves to remind me how mind-numblingly incompetent Frontiere and her cronies could be at times.OK, seriously... you HAVE to stop calling the royal and gold uniform the "Banks uniform". It's ridiculas. It's making your whole arguement seem silly.I've always called them the "Trent Green uniform". Seems much more apropo than the "Tony Banks uniform." Smart is believing half of what you hear. Genius is knowing which half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guest23 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 But there are good times with those unis (and more like 4-5 good years with a couple years of mediocrity where they still had a chance to win a lot of games before their decade of bad decisions caught up with them.) Excepting the 1999 squad which became more iconic in the current colors, those good times aren't there with the Banks unis.Besides, if the Rams hadn't blown the paperwork deadline for the uniform change (as typical) they would have worn the current colors in 1999. What they are wearing now is what they should have won the Super Bowl in. To say "they won the Super Bowl in the Banks uniforms" just serves to remind me how mind-numblingly incompetent Frontiere and her cronies could be at times.OK, seriously... you HAVE to stop calling the royal and gold uniform the "Banks uniform". It's ridiculas. It's making your whole arguement seem silly.I've always called them the "Trent Green uniform". Seems much more apropo than the "Tony Banks uniform." always reminded me of the lawrence phillips era...man were those the years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 But there are good times with those unis (and more like 4-5 good years with a couple years of mediocrity where they still had a chance to win a lot of games before their decade of bad decisions caught up with them.) Excepting the 1999 squad which became more iconic in the current colors, those good times aren't there with the Banks unis.Besides, if the Rams hadn't blown the paperwork deadline for the uniform change (as typical) they would have worn the current colors in 1999. What they are wearing now is what they should have won the Super Bowl in. To say "they won the Super Bowl in the Banks uniforms" just serves to remind me how mind-numblingly incompetent Frontiere and her cronies could be at times.OK, seriously... you HAVE to stop calling the royal and gold uniform the "Banks uniform". It's ridiculas. It's making your whole arguement seem silly.Maybe if I was in my 50s like you I would think of them differently. But I'm not, so their "Los Angeles Legacy" is irrelevant to how I think of them. Yes, I understand there may have been some good times for the franchise back in the 80s.Good times.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOYY6futWBc/Thank God they lost to the '85 Bears On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 "The Rams considered 15-20 color combinations when changing uniforms in 2000. Frontiere went with "new century gold" and "millennium blue" because the combination "made cosmic sense" entering the 21st century, even though she thought other colors looked better" But yeah I'm pretty sure it was all set for 2000 because they did the change after the Rams won the Super Bowl. I am curious what the other combinations would have been? .Provide the link to the story. Because the plan was to make the change in 1999. The entire franchise was focusing on the 1999 season as the moment when they would become, well, decent anyway. It was going to be this grand point of turnaround and change; Vermeil's overhaul of the defense was always projected to have the team ready to compete for a Wild Card in 1999, the same applies for the moves made in the offseason to upgrade the offense before 1999. (Hint, there's a reason why the Trent Green injury was so crushing at the time.) A new, St. Louis look was seen as fitting in nicely into that plan. Unfortunately Vermeil wasn't responsible for making sure the NFL has the new uni designs BEFORE the deadline. Ironically said screw up worked out nicely for the team because they had the new jerseys ready to rollout on sale as soon as the confetti stopped falling in Atlanta. But no, that was not by design. The intent was for them to have been wearing them in the 1999 season. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschoolvikings Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 But there are good times with those unis (and more like 4-5 good years with a couple years of mediocrity where they still had a chance to win a lot of games before their decade of bad decisions caught up with them.) Excepting the 1999 squad which became more iconic in the current colors, those good times aren't there with the Banks unis.Besides, if the Rams hadn't blown the paperwork deadline for the uniform change (as typical) they would have worn the current colors in 1999. What they are wearing now is what they should have won the Super Bowl in. To say "they won the Super Bowl in the Banks uniforms" just serves to remind me how mind-numblingly incompetent Frontiere and her cronies could be at times.OK, seriously... you HAVE to stop calling the royal and gold uniform the "Banks uniform". It's ridiculas. It's making your whole arguement seem silly.Maybe if I was in my 50s like you I would think of them differently. But I'm not, so their "Los Angeles Legacy" is irrelevant to how I think of them. Yes, I understand there may have been some good times for the franchise back in the 80s.You don't have to be in your 50's (which, for the record, I'm not) to appreciate;A. The Rams have a long a rich history, and...B. Tony Banks, even if all your doing is discussing the St. Louis Rams, is a silly name to drop. He is less than a footnote. I just think it makes you seem like your straining to add some phony level of insignificance to the previous uniforms. http://dstewartpaint.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claystation360 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 I can't argue it for sure because Im a Jacksonville fan so I don't know the inter-workings of the Rams franschise in St Louis, just it seems odd the reason the colors have the names that they do and they seem to lead to the fact it was around 00 but anyways the whole article is pretty good. http://www.helmethut.com/Talkhelmet/TalkHewitt.htmlhttp://mobile.turfshowtimes.com/2011/11/2/2532741/st-louis-rams-throwback-uniforms #DTWD #GoJaguars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infrared41 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 But there are good times with those unis (and more like 4-5 good years with a couple years of mediocrity where they still had a chance to win a lot of games before their decade of bad decisions caught up with them.) Excepting the 1999 squad which became more iconic in the current colors, those good times aren't there with the Banks unis.Besides, if the Rams hadn't blown the paperwork deadline for the uniform change (as typical) they would have worn the current colors in 1999. What they are wearing now is what they should have won the Super Bowl in. To say "they won the Super Bowl in the Banks uniforms" just serves to remind me how mind-numblingly incompetent Frontiere and her cronies could be at times.OK, seriously... you HAVE to stop calling the royal and gold uniform the "Banks uniform". It's ridiculas. It's making your whole arguement seem silly.I've always called them the "Trent Green uniform". Seems much more apropo than the "Tony Banks uniform." always reminded me of the lawrence phillips era...man were those the yearsI think of them as the -y uniforms that replaced these beauties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 You don't have to be in your 50's (which, for the record, I'm not) to appreciate;Sorry. 60s.A. The Rams have a long a rich history, and...Intellectually this is understood. However, emotionally and viscerally, this doesn't change the fact that all the players I associate with those uniforms (HINT-THEY DIDN'T WIN THE SUPER BOWL) typically played like sick nuns and lost a lot. Which leads to a general association of the uniforms with failure and despair. And a desire to never see them again. I'm pretty sure that if instead of the Purple People Eaters you got a bunch of jokers who played like flaming sacks of during your formative period of fandom, you wouldn't wax nostalgic for the unis they wore either.B. Tony Banks, even if all your doing is discussing the St. Louis Rams, is a silly name to drop. He is less than a footnote. I just think it makes you seem like your straining to add some phony level of insignificance to the previous uniforms.Tony Banks was the starter for two of the four years they wore those uniforms. And he's still heavily reviled among the Rams fanbase-to the point that he remains the baseline for ty quarterbacking in franchise history. His name is still the first that comes to mind when discussing that Rams era, so, writing him off as a footnote greatly underemphasizes his place in Ram Nation's collective psyche. Most Rams fans will recognize Banks' name (and swear). On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29texan Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 But there are good times with those unis (and more like 4-5 good years with a couple years of mediocrity where they still had a chance to win a lot of games before their decade of bad decisions caught up with them.) Excepting the 1999 squad which became more iconic in the current colors, those good times aren't there with the Banks unis.Besides, if the Rams hadn't blown the paperwork deadline for the uniform change (as typical) they would have worn the current colors in 1999. What they are wearing now is what they should have won the Super Bowl in. To say "they won the Super Bowl in the Banks uniforms" just serves to remind me how mind-numblingly incompetent Frontiere and her cronies could be at times.OK, seriously... you HAVE to stop calling the royal and gold uniform the "Banks uniform". It's ridiculas. It's making your whole arguement seem silly.I've always called them the "Trent Green uniform". Seems much more apropo than the "Tony Banks uniform." always reminded me of the lawrence phillips era...man were those the yearsI think of them as the -y uniforms that replaced these beauties.You mean those L.A. Colts unis?Yeah, I think they made the right choice of going with blue and gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiddySicks Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 If its any consolation to Ram's thought process, I'm about the same age as him and my very first thought when I think about those Rams uniforms, even more than Mike Jones stopping Kevin Dyson one yard short, is Tony Banks getting absolutely victimized by some pretty average 49ers teams. It's not that I don't see the past and can't recognize their history before St. Louis, but their time in the Lou in the old colors were pretty awful sans that one year. On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said: She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shstpt1 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 when does the nike deal start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gothamite Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 April 1st. The Green Bay Packers Uniform Database! Now in a handy blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSU151 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 You don't have to be in your 50's (which, for the record, I'm not) to appreciate;Sorry. 60s.A. The Rams have a long a rich history, and...Intellectually this is understood. However, emotionally and viscerally, this doesn't change the fact that all the players I associate with those uniforms (HINT-THEY DIDN'T WIN THE SUPER BOWL) typically played like sick nuns and lost a lot. Which leads to a general association of the uniforms with failure and despair. And a desire to never see them again. I'm pretty sure that if instead of the Purple People Eaters you got a bunch of jokers who played like flaming sacks of during your formative period of fandom, you wouldn't wax nostalgic for the unis they wore either.B. Tony Banks, even if all your doing is discussing the St. Louis Rams, is a silly name to drop. He is less than a footnote. I just think it makes you seem like your straining to add some phony level of insignificance to the previous uniforms.Tony Banks was the starter for two of the four years they wore those uniforms.The St. Louis Rams wore those uniforms for five seasons, not four. 1995-1999 is five seasons. Smart is believing half of what you hear. Genius is knowing which half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruColor Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 The New England Patriots are modifying their shade of Silver a bit - for what that's worth.Probably won't be noticed on the field, I'm guessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claystation360 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 You don't have to be in your 50's (which, for the record, I'm not) to appreciate;Sorry. 60s.A. The Rams have a long a rich history, and...Intellectually this is understood. However, emotionally and viscerally, this doesn't change the fact that all the players I associate with those uniforms (HINT-THEY DIDN'T WIN THE SUPER BOWL) typically played like sick nuns and lost a lot. Which leads to a general association of the uniforms with failure and despair. And a desire to never see them again. I'm pretty sure that if instead of the Purple People Eaters you got a bunch of jokers who played like flaming sacks of during your formative period of fandom, you wouldn't wax nostalgic for the unis they wore either.B. Tony Banks, even if all your doing is discussing the St. Louis Rams, is a silly name to drop. He is less than a footnote. I just think it makes you seem like your straining to add some phony level of insignificance to the previous uniforms.Tony Banks was the starter for two of the four years they wore those uniforms.The St. Louis Rams wore those uniforms for five seasons, not four. 1995-1999 is five seasons.Thank you that is some of the point I'm making on my end. Is that 5 season of the blue & yellow in stl they had one Super Bowl winning season !! Still winning the Super Bowl, but with a 35-45 record not during 95-99Plus since going to the fancy Navy & Gold yes they started off well but still LOST a Super Bowl in them. and just in the last 5 years they have an overall record of 15-65 in the navy & gold honestly to me that's worse then what went on during the mid/late 90's . #DTWD #GoJaguars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSU151 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 The New England Patriots are modifying their shade of Silver a bit - for what that's worth.Probably won't be noticed on the field, I'm guessing.I'm guessing they are going a little darker...? Smart is believing half of what you hear. Genius is knowing which half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claystation360 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 The New England Patriots are modifying their shade of Silver a bit - for what that's worth.Probably won't be noticed on the field, I'm guessing.I'm guessing they are going a little darker...?I'm guessing they are tired of the dirty whitish sliver ? Because those "sliver" jerseys were blah. #DTWD #GoJaguars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSox44 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 The New England Patriots are modifying their shade of Silver a bit - for what that's worth.Probably won't be noticed on the field, I'm guessing.Not quite the overhaul I was hoping for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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