The Rams yesterday unveiled new jerseys for the '20 season, but in L.A., Arash Markazi writes the team "didn't need to reimagine something." The classic Rams uniforms were "one of the best in NFL history and as distinctly Los Angeles as the Lakers' purple and gold or the Dodgers' blue and white." However, the Rams have "never understood or appreciated their history in Los Angeles and what their classic uniforms and horns mean to their fans." This is not "simply about a bad redesign; it's about ignoring the significance of what the old design represented" (L.A. TIMES, 5/14).
PLAYING BOTH SIDES: The CFL Winnipeg Blue Bombers showed an operating profit of nearly C$3.5M in '19, which culminated in the team winning the Grey Cup. The Packers-Raiders preseason game at the team's IG Field "plopped nearly $900,000 into the Bombers' coffers." However, Blue Bombers President & CEO Wade Miller "painted a bleak picture of this year's balance sheet" amid the possibility that the '20 season could be canceled (WINNIPEG SUN, 5/14).
MUSIC CITY PITCH: The group behind trying to bring MLB to Nashville late last month "filed a federal trademark application to register a trademark of three red stars -- a large one with two smaller ones on each side -- as a logo." The logo is "similar to the one used by the Nashville Stars of the Negro Leagues in the 1940s and 50s." The prospective MLB team also would carry the Nashville Stars name (Nashville TENNESSEAN, 5/13).
