Chargers Crush Rams In Battle Of Los Angeles NFL Jerseys

Ice Cube thought he was being real clever.

Though he’s really good at many things, rapping, acting, Big 3 executive, jersey critic apparently is not one of them.

It seems like Ice Cube is insinuating that not only do the two Los Angeles football teams and soon-to-be co-tenants of SoFi Stadium have such similar jerseys that the Rams and Chargers don’t even need to bother changing over signage like they have to do for New York Giants and New York Jets’ home games at Metlife Stadium but the Chargers are somehow stealing history like the Clippers?

Whew. A lot to unpack there.

Firstly, though the Chargers probably should’ve stayed in San Diego, the Clippers’ original home, whose history are they trying to steal? Though the Bolts probably won’t have many fans compared to the Rams or even the Las Vegas Raiders, pretty sure they deserve and will get their own stadium signage.

But Cube’s assertion that the Rams and Chargers are similar just because they have blue and yellow jerseys ignores the fact that the Rams’ uniforms are trash while the Bolts unveiled the greatest jersey set in the 101-year history of the National Football League.

I mean, come on.

A tremendous refresh of their AFL uniforms, the Chargers’ set looks insane. The bold numbers on the jerseys and helmets, the more vibrant yellow, the elimination of the navy shading on the bolt which enables it to pop more. The powder blue and yellow just go perfectly together, and the royal blue and navy alternates with the matching pants will easily be the NFL’s best color rush jerseys.

The Rams response this week was like when Drake tried clapping back at Pusha T’s diss tracks a couple of years ago. Feeble, weak, laughable.

Though Ice Cube is correct that the Rams and Chargers have similar colorways, the Rams’ look is worse in every way. My late grandfather used to instill a simple mantra to me: K.I.S.S, keep it simple, stupid. The Rams and Nike
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failed to abide by this time-tested policy.

As I wrote yesterday, the Rams just tried to do too much with their uniforms. They tried to align the font of the number with the curvature of the rams horn on the helmet, but it just looks awkward. And the gradient number color between yellow and white just looks amateurish. And what’s the deal with the off white, grayish jersey instead of just plain white? The team is calling it bone, but the great Paul Lukas of UniWatch more accurately referred to the color as “dishwater.”

And if the Rams are just going to do a poorer version of the Chargers’ jerseys, at least try to resonate and truly own the color scheme with a yellow uniform! It’s something the Bolts omitted from its 2020 arsenal and something the L.A. Rams have done really well in the past. When the Rams played the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday Night Football in week 11 of the 2018 season, they rocked some spectacular gold jerseys when they played what could’ve possibly been the best MNF game ever. Though the team hinted that more jerseys would be added to the set in the future, why would they leave this off?

It’s just ceding more ground to the Chargers, whose uniforms best the other all-time NFL jersey contenders like the New England Patriots’ all-red Minuteman set, or the Philadelphia Eagles in iconic Kelly green, which could return in 2021. While Ice Cube is correct that the Chargers won’t have as many fans come to SoFi Stadium as the Rams, he’s incorrect that the two teams’ jerseys are indistinguishable. One uni reigns supreme, and we all know it.