When the Rams moved back to Los Angeles, everyone just assumed the team would be going back to its traditional blue and yellow color scheme. But we’ll probably have to wait until they move into their new stadium, which isn’t scheduled to open until 2020, before seeing a full-time return to these beauties…

In the the meantime, the Rams have made some small alterations to their uniforms in order to get a more throwback look, changing the horns on the helmets from gold to white and getting rid of the gold on the pants. The result is an ugly mismatch…

Say what you want about the Rams’ uniforms before this change, but this looks A LOT better than what they’ll be wearing in 2017:

The NFL does not allow a team to completely change its uniforms more than once every five years. So with the Rams planning a re-design to coincide with the new stadium opening, they can only take half-measures right now. Hence the jersey that does not match the helmet and pants.

Instead of messing with what it had, Los Angeles should have just been patient and waited things out until 2020 in the navy and gold uniforms the franchise has been wearing since the turn of the century.