NFL turns down Rams on uniforms

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NFL Monday: Urlacher Unhappy; Delhomme Rehabs
Published 4/7/2008 by Joel 'DiG' DiGiacomo at Football for Breakfast
NFC News Panthers: Important Day As Delhomme Begins Throwing (Gaston Gazette) Bears : Unhappy Urlacher to Skip Bears’ First Voluntary Workout (Chicago Tribune) Rams: NFL Turns Down Rams on Uniforms (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) AFC News Patriots: Welker Hoping Encore a Grabber (Boston Globe) Browns : Gib Shanley, Voice of Browns, Dies at 76 (Akron Beacon Journal) ...

Washington Monument
Published 4/7/2008 by Paul Lukas at Uni Watch
... (with thanks to Michael Burnett). … Accoding to this story, the Rams wanted to wear 1999 throwbacks this fall but were turned down by the league because they didn’t start the paperwork early enough. They’re also planning to wear a memorial patch for Georgia Frontiere (with thanks to Mike Engle). ...

Rams Want to Wear Throwbacks, Forget to Submit Proper Paperwork in Timely Fashion
Published 4/7/2008 by Ryan Wilson at FanHouse
... can't blame the Rams for wanting to turn back the clock nine years. In 1999, they won the Super Bowl after a 13-3 record, and averaged almost 11 wins a season from 2000-2003. In the four years since, they're eking out just over six wins a season and in 2007, managed only three. So, yeah, bust out the time machine. The plan was to wear the 1999 throwback jerseys for the regular-season opener, but NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, in all his ruthlessness, nixed the plan. "There were a number of things that we couldn't get past," [Rams owner Chip] ...

Throwback this!
Published 4/8/2008 by VanRam <info@turfshowtimes.com> at Turf Show Times
Kind of a bummer about the league rejecting the Rams request to wear the 1999 throwbacks for the season opener this year. Policy is policy, and the one year lead time probably lets the league push out related merchandise. Still, I can't help but wonder how it would have been met if one of the more nationally marketable teams had made a late request to wear throwbacks... I'll take off my tin foil hat now. ...