Gold 50yrd line?

[Stranger]

NFL using gold 50s at midfield, drops Super Bowl Roman numerals
2h - NFL

No need to adjust your television sets. Those are gold numbers at midfield in NFL exhibition games.

Throughout the preseason and regular season, NFL fields will have gold 50s at midfield. It's to commemorate the 50th Super Bowl, which will be played in February in Santa Clara, California.

The rest of the numbers on the field will remain white.

The league is also dropping Roman numerals for this Super Bowl, which simply will be Super Bowl 50. Midway through the season, the celebration of a half-century of Super Bowls will also include sideline apparel with gold trimming.

Pro Bowl uniforms will be tinged in gold, and every Super Bowl rematch on the 2015 schedule has been highlighted on the NFL's website in -- you guessed it -- gold.

 

[T-REX]

drops Super Bowl Roman numerals

Didn't know that. I guess "L" isn't sexy enough?

 

[Big Willie]

Since the NFL teams print money, it's probably real gold on the 50 yard line.

 

[Alan]

T-REX with a one track mind:
Didn't know that. I guess "L" isn't sexy enough?

I don't think it's a question of it not being sexy enough , I think it has to do with how much space it takes up (engraving and other issues). For example, 58 versus LVIII & 59 versus LXXXIX. Plus, how many fans know that XCIX is 99?

 

[Legatron4]

I don't think it's a question of it not being sexy enough , I think it has to do with how much space it takes up (engraving and other issues). For example, 58 versus LVIII & 59 versus LXXXIX. Plus, how many fans know that XCIX is 99?

Only ones like you that are close to that age.

 

[Rmfnlt]

Didn't know that. I guess "L" isn't sexy enough?

And now... for the rest of the story:

In an effort to get fans to forget about any controversy, the NFL has decided to eliminate any letters that might be included in such controversies.

Such as: DefLate

 

[T-REX]

I don't think it's a question of it not being sexy enough

Well I'd like to bringing back

View: https://youtu.be/3gOHvDP_vCs

 

[DaveFan'51]

every Super Bowl rematch on the 2015 schedule has been highlighted on the NFL's website in -- you guessed it -- gold.

Does that go for the Rams vs Steelers game!? Link, please!

 

[Leuzer]

I was having a little trouble seeing it. Maybe if the put a black outline or something around it to highlight the 50 it wouldn't be so bad.
Speaking of awful, those Cleveland Browns jerseys are hideous. I didn't think they looked too bad when they were unveiled but wow! Looks like the Jags have competition for worst uni in the league...

 

[Rynie]

Really? People are crying about the color of the yard line?

 

[kurtfaulk]

I don't think it's a question of it not being sexy enough , I think it has to do with how much space it takes up (engraving and other issues). For example, 58 versus LVIII & 59 versus LXXXIX. Plus, how many fans know that XCIX is 99?

i read it as they were only dropping it for this season. are they actually dropping it for good? how else are people supposed to know how to read roman numerals?

.

 

[Alan]

kurtfaulk bemoaning the rise and fall of the Roman numeral:
how else are people supposed to know how to read roman numerals?

Questions on Jeopardy?

 

[Mikey Ram]

Only ones like you that are close to that age.

Band-aid for that, Alan??? It left a mark...

 

[nighttrain]

Questions on Jeopardy?

Rome went south when the Vandals and Goths came to visit
no more Roman legionnaires
train

 

[Alan]

nighttrain remembering his senior year:
Rome went south when the Vandals and Goths came to visit
no more Roman legionnaires

They were really hard on girlfriends too.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjFPxrDWpUM


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUouq-mmVyw

 

[nighttrain]

Attila the Hun died of heart attack while forcing himself on 13 year old on his way home from sacking Rome,
from the book, " The Way they Went".
LOL
train

 

[Mikey Ram]

That looks almot as weird as the neon, glow-in-the dark Oregon Ducks uniforms...Yeow ...

 

[RhodyRams]

Funny..was thinking about getting the Roman Numeral for 50 as a tattoo for my 50th b day..until I figured out it was a big old "L"..was thinking it was M

 

[CGI_Ram]

Funny..was thinking about getting the Roman Numeral for 50 as a tattoo for my 50th b day..until I figured out it was a big old "L"..was thinking it was M

I might do XXXIV.