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The regular season is here, which meant I was finally forced to listen to Dennis Miller during the “Monday Night Football” broadcast.

If I wanted to hear unfunny attempts at humor from a jerk who knows nothing about football, I’d watch the game with T.J. Simers.

JESSE SAIVAR, Los Angeles

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I was watching the Raider-Charger telecast Sunday. After viewing the many Raider fans with their capes, light sabers, black and silver gloves, skulls, spikes, etc., I realized how lucky they are. Instead of paying outrageous prices at sport shops for team souvenirs, they can accessorize at any neighborhood Toys R Us.

ART MERCADO, Torrance

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Just when I thought that Georgia Frontiere had pounded the last nail into the L.A. Rams’ coffin, she and her marketing design wizards go and screw up one of the classic uniforms in the NFL.

Gone are the rams’ horns--the key element distinguishing this uniform from all others--curling around the jersey shoulders, and the addition of the little helmet patch on the sleeves look too similar to the ones found on those of the New England Patriots and Jacksonville Jaguars.

But worst of all is the trashing of the color scheme: the distinctive Ram blue and yellow with white trim exchanged for a drab, indigo blue, so dark that it looks almost charcoal-gray at times or, depending upon the light, a weird hint of deep green. Ditto the copper/gold replacing the yellow: so shiny that, at times, it picks up the green of the (fake) turf so that it loses its intended natural color (sort of like Georgia’s hair). The whole package winds up looking like some drab, corporate, robotic-looking image that seems like a cross between the Colorado State Rams and the New Orleans Saints.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” must not have ever been suggested to you, Georgia. Glad you’re gone.

RICK MORGAN, Dana Point