Re: A Conversation on Uniforms with Jack Youngblood
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Great Article! Thanks for posting that. I guess if my opinion is the same as Mr. Youngblood's. I feel pretty good about where I stand! Great minds think alike!!!
Here is the part about the new uni...
PFJ: As you know the Rams changed a lot in their uniforms this year. Let’s start top to bottom. What do you think of the helmet?
JY: (Laughs) Well, the color is good, I like the metallic blue. (Laughs again). The horn is terrible. It looks like a “C”. When I first saw it on the logo I honestly thought it was a Charger logo.
Now when I see it on the helmet, it just isn’t a ram horn. There is no distinct curl like a mature ram horn. I don’t know how the Rams could get that wrong. That is your symbol and it has been for what? Seventy years or more? Longer than I have been alive? It's just not us, it's not the Rams.
PFJ: What would you say to those who say those who don’t like it are simply old?
JY: I AM old! But I am not blind. I know a ram horn when I see it and I know a crescent moon when I see it and I know a “C” when I see it.
As I said, I like the colors, I like changes. But the change has to be a positive change, not some sort of junk that no one can understand. What was it some “Fibonacci” thing? What is the world is that? I had to look that up. What does that have to do with football or a football helmet?
PFJ: Okay, how about the new Rams uniforms.
BY: From what I can tell the blue and gold ones are okay, except for the horns on the helmet and shoulders. The gray ones are weird. I looked at the website and the close-ups. I don’t know why there is a sun on the shoulders of the gray uniform. The sun on the shoulder and the crescent moon on the helmet? It’s weird. I don't understand it. We're the Rams, not the sun and the moons. We're not the zodiacs, are we?
And those patches with the squiggly lines—What is that? I thought those were those lines from a seismograph, showing the readings of California earthquake.
I also don’t get the grey uniforms. It reminded me of the guard’s uniforms in that movie The Longest Yard—do you remember that movie?
PFJ: Back to the uniforms . . . What do you think of the patches with the wordmarks?
JY: Wordmarks? Are those the things that have the yellow zig-zag lines sewn on?
PFJ: Yes.
JY: Is that some sort of advertisement? Are they going to sell that space someday?
PFJ: They say no.
JY: We’ll see, but it’s weird to have them placed there. It looks out of place, why are they on the side? And why are the words stacked like that?
PFJ: No idea.
JY: It's just another thing that seems off, just not something that belongs on an NFL uniform. You know, I was part of the World League and then was a GM in the Arena League, these things we're discussing seem to fit better in those kinds of leagues, not the NFL.
The NFL is supposed to be a cut above, the best of the best. The best players, the best coaches, the best stadiums, the best uniforms, the whole nine yards. When there are uniforms that are not up to snuff, it hurts the Rams brand, the image.
PFJ: Would you want to wear the new uniforms?
JY: Well, I’d wear what the boss man told me to wear. But would I like it? Not really. The blue and gold ones are okay but the horn is UG-LY.
The grey, I'd put it on and play hard like I always tried to do.
But if Dan Dierdorf or Ron (Yary) or Rayfield (Wright) lined up in those light grey uniforms I'd sure have something to say to them—"Did your Mama run out of bleach?" or something to get under their skin. Something to tease them about it (laughs) to let them know they were wearing bush-league uniforms.
But that is what happens when you get a cap guy, a non-football guy to run your team.
Marvin Demoff was my agent and his son Kevin is a sharp, smart lawyer, I am sure, but he’s not a football guy. He does not know if a football is blown or stuffed. And he shouldn’t be a part of designing uniforms for football players. It’s as simple as that.
Maybe they will change them in a couple of years.
PFJ: League rules say they have to keep them five years before they can change.
JY: There is a rule like that? That they cannot change if fans don't like them?
PFJ: Yes
JY: I wasn't aware of that. How long did you say they are stuck with that horn and those dingy grey uniforms?
PFJ: Five years.
JY: Wow.
#HelmetHornsMatter
“Well, the color is good, I like the metallic blue,” Youngblood recently said while laughing, via NFL Journal. “The horn is terrible. It looks like a ‘C.’ When I first saw it on the logo I honestly thought it was a Charger logo.
“Now when I see it on the helmet, it just isn’t a ram horn. There is no distinct curl like a mature ram horn. I don’t know how the Rams could get that wrong. That is your symbol and it has been for what? Seventy years or more? Longer than I have been alive? It’s just not us, it’s not the Rams.”---Mr. Ram Jack Youngblood
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/06/2020 05:13AM by Ramsdude.
