As with just about every uniform redesign, there are people who certainly don’t like the new look that the Los Angeles Rams unveiled on Wednesday. The new “bone” color is polarizing among fans, while the gradient numbers on the royal jerseys have been criticized countless times.
Rams players predictably love the new uniforms – at least publicly – but Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson is strongly opposed to them. As he did with the new logo, he ripped the new uniforms, particularly the stripes and the horn – which he compared to two bananas.
“I’m going to say this much. I looked at them real hard last night and this morning. I got up just staring at the uniforms. It was kind of hard to see on the Zoom call yesterday,” he said on AM 570 in L.A. on Wednesday. “I’ll say this: The colors are not bad. If you want to change the colors, make them a little brighter. On the uniforms, it’s not bad.
“I just don’t like the stripe around the sleeve. It’s not big enough. It almost looks like a lightning bolt, like the Chargers’ uniform. I don’t like the stripe down the pants. I wish it was bigger. And the horn, man, it’s horrible. I mean, it’s terrible. I just feel like they really took away from the Rams’ uniform. And it looks almost like the Chargers’ logo. It looks like two bananas is what it looks like.”
Dickerson didn’t have any say in the uniform redesign, and it’s doubtful that the current players did, either. However, he talked Chargers coach Anthony Lynn recently, who told him that their team let some of the players help pick the uniforms.
Dickerson’s problem with the Rams’ uniforms is that they look soft, and they focus too much on Los Angeles things rather than football.
“Like I told them, this is football,” he said. “This ain’t nothing to do with surfing. This ain’t nothing to do with waves. This is football. This is a man’s sport. And to me, it just looks soft. It don’t look like football. It don’t look hard.”
As for the helmet, that’s an aspect many fans actually like. Dickerson is not among that contingent of people, though.
“Am I disappointed? Yes. I’m very, very, very, very disappointed in the helmet,” he said. “Man, that’s not a ram horn. I said to the artist or the designer, I said, ‘You tell me what ram horn looks like that.’ I said, ‘You know what it looks like? It looks like a goat, that’s kind of starting and stopping. But it’s not a ram.'”
We’ll have to wait and see how the uniforms actually look on the field, since it’s hard to tell with these graphically designed images and videos shared online. But Dickerson shares a similar feeling that many other Rams fans do: They missed the mark with this uniform redesign.
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