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The LA Rams have some of the sickest throwback uniforms in the NFL and they’ve been on full display this season. The team’s worn the 1973-to-1999 throwbacks five times already this season and it’s the same uniform the Rams wore when they won Super Bowl XXXIV.
Almost immediately after the Los Angeles Rams won their controversial overtime NFC Championship game against the New Orleans Saints the team announced on Twitter that they were going to wear their throwback uniforms in the Super Bowl.
Oh by the way…
🗣 WE WEARING THROWBACKS AT THE SUPER BOWL! pic.twitter.com/MfHN6W0k4T
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) January 21, 2019
The LA Rams will be moving into a new stadium in 2020 at which point they’ll be debuting all new uniforms. They’ve ditched the gold unis after leaving St. Louis and have pinpointed the move into the new stadium as the point where they’ll go full-rebrand.
With the Los Angeles Rams wearing their blue jerseys for the Super Bowl this means the New England Patriots will be wearing their white uniforms. The Pats have worn white in 5 of their last 10 Super Bowl appearances and they’ve got a 3-2 record in those games.
The AFC winner got to choose their uniforms last year so the Patriots chose white because they were 3-0 in the Belichick Era, they’re now 3-1 in white uniforms at the Super Bowl after that loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Why am I talking about all of this? Well, the team in white pretty much ALWAYS wins and last year was actually a fluke. Jonathan Jones of Sports Illustrated dove deep into the superstition and stats of uniform color at the Super Bowl, what he found is white uniforms have been dominant in recent years:
In their previous 10 Super Bowl trips, New England has worn their white tops five times and have a 3–2 record while wearing them. With the AFC winner getting the choice last year, the Patriots jumped at the opportunity to wear white in last year’s Super Bowl since the Patriots were 3–0 in the Belichick-Brady era in white (they lost Super Bowl XXXI to the Packers in white), but we know how that turned out. As for the other uniforms, the Patriots are 2–2 while wearing blue and 0–1 in red.
There’s a ton of superstition when it comes to jersey color in this game. In the past 14 Super Bowls, the team in white has won 12 times. Only the Steelers in Super Bowl XLV and Patriots last year have not won the big game in white jerseys. The Broncos wore their white jerseys in Super Bowl 50 after posting a 0–4 record in the Super Bowl in orange jerseys.
Teams wearing white jerseys are 12-2 in the last 14 Super Bowls! Why would any team ever want to wear anything other than white?!?
These throwbacks uniforms of the Rams are sick, don’t get me wrong. I love them almost as much as I love my Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ creamsicle throwbacks. But if the Rams lose this game then this loss is on Sean McVay for choosing to not wear white.
For recommendations on which teams should wear non-white uniforms based on past history, you should click here to check out the full article on Sports Illustrated.