Colorado State has worn iconic rams horns on its football helmets since … well, what feels like forever.
The school first introduced the . Since 1974, green horns on a yellow helmet or gold horns on a green helmet has been a CSU staple. The only notable exception being the 2007 Ag Day game against Cal in which the Rams donned white numbers on solid green helmets as a throwback to their 1958 look.
There appears to be at least one more exception on the horizon.
CSU football teased new uniforms from its Twitter account Tuesday with a GIF of a shadowy player walking away from the camera and a date of Sept. 21, 2017. The player is wearing an all-white jersey with dark numbers (presumably green), but here’s the kicker — a white helmet.
From what we can see, the helmet has a white base (it looks glossy rather than matte) with a triple stripe (dark, white, dark) up the middle and no noticeable horns on either side.
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— Colorado State Football (@CSUFootball)
While the shot is from the back, you can see enough of either side to notice horns seem to be missing. For comparison’s sake, here’s a shot of the back of Kevin Nutt’s helmet and where the horns are located.
CSU teased a side look Wednesday.
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— Colorado State Football (@CSUFootball)
We’ll have to wait until Thursday to see exactly what these look like and what game the Rams plan to wear them for (CSU has a bye this week then heads to Hawaii on Sept. 30), but they appear to be a drastic shift from what’s been considered the norm around Fort Collins. According to , which has archives of CSU uniforms dating back to 1922, the school has never donned a white helmet.