God save us from the retinal abuse of the Rams uniform combination

Don’t adjust your television sets, the Rams are indeed wearing the oddest and ugliest uniform combination possible.

If you were watching the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, you weren’t the only one confused. It wasn’t anything the Rams were doing on the field, it was what they were wearing.

Los Angeles strolled into Dallas with a mismatched uniform combination that would have been par for the course had it happened last season when everything, not just the uniforms, was a jumbled mess.

The combination was blue and white helmet along with matching pants but broken up with a gold and blue jersey.

Yuck.

There’s a reason why the Rams have this retina-burning combination in Dallas on Sunday.

First and foremost, Dallas almost always wears white at home, which has been a thing since basically forever. Unless it’s a special occasion, the Cowboys white uniforms are the team’s go-to, and according to NFL rules, the home team gets first dibs on what uniform combo it wants to wear.

That explains why the Rams couldn’t wear their all-white getup, but it doesn’t excuse why they still have the gold/blue jerseys as part of their rotation. Why change the helmets and the pants but not the uniforms?

Los Angeles should have just overhauled its uniforms this season instead of waiting until 2018. Nike is tailormade to make changes to uniforms at the drop of a hat, just look at college football. There are about a thousand different jersey combinations for a given Saturday, and they come up with them seemingly on the fly. The idea that Nike couldn’t have put together an updated throwback look with the blue and white color palette is just lame.

The new uniforms are likely coming next season, and this Sunday is the last exhibit we need to abolish this horrible uniform combination and damn it to hell forever.