The Rams didn’t debut their yellow pants until Week 4 against the Giants.
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Pandemic prevented Rams from wearing yellow pants earlier in season
When the Rams revealed their uniform schedule for the 2020 season, fans everywhere asked when they would wear their yellow pants. We got to see their all-royal look in training camp during their two scrimmages, but it took a while for the team to debut the more traditional blue-and-yellow combo.
There’s a reason for that, and it wasn’t necessarily the team’s fault.
The COVID-19 pandemic created production constraints, causing the yellow pants to be delayed from Nike. Rams COO Kevin Demoff told J.B. Long this week that those were the last pieces of the uniform that the team got.
“One of the issues we had – and I know people kept saying ‘more Sol pants’ – is those were the last things Nike delivered to us this year because of the pandemic,” he said on the Rams Revealed podcast. “So we actually didn’t get them until the end of August. So when people asked us, ‘Why didn’t you wear them for the scrimmages?’ It’s because we didn’t have them. And even at the beginning of the year, Brendan was very careful because we only had so many, not to necessarily overuse them in games because the quick turnaround meant that we might not have enough pairs for the next game. Now that we’ve gotten more in – you know, but certainly after the second loss in the monochrome look, said ‘All right, definitely yellow pants.’ We were always planning to go yellow pants against the Bears and after we beat the Bears, said ‘You’re definitely packing the yellow pants for Miami.’”
Fans have grown to like the blue-and-yellow combination, as well as the new Bone look. Demoff was asked which uniform set the players like best, and as was the case in the summer, he said they gravitate toward the Bone uniforms.
“Bone, or blue and Sol,” he said. “Obviously now that we’ve lost our first game in blue and Sol, Bone may be (the favorite). But the players do think the Bone is something special, something unique, and they’ve gravitated toward that look, so that’s fun to see.”
The Rams already have their uniforms laid out for the rest of the season, but Demoff wouldn’t be opposed to them wearing their Bone set for the rest of the year, having gone 3-0 in them so far.
Unfortunately, they can’t change their plans now, but Demoff hopes the Rams can win in every uniform set down the stretch.
“But now looking at it, I’d probably say go all Bone all the time,” he said. “But you have to submit your combinations – at least the tops – to the NFL by July 1st, so that means we don’t necessarily get to change it up on the fly.”