WHY/HOW did YOU become a Rams fan?

[Commish]

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Pretty simple for me. It was around 66-67, growing up in NY. The adult men had football on, and as a 7 year old kid, I saw the uniforms, and loved them. Earliest players I remember were Gabe, Sniw, and Josephson. Like every other diehard, went through some bad, make that , horrible years. Stuck with them. Every year "this year" was going to be the year they turned it around for me.

Yeah, that's about the timeframe I saw "the helmet".
Your (and my) early teens were some great years to be a Rams fan - they were playoff-bound pretty much every year. Some great teams in the 70's.
Unfortunately, the Steelers and Cowboys also had great teams then. :?

Actually, the Rams defeated two championship-bound Steelers teams (1975 & '78) during that decade. They were 3-0 vs. the Steelers in the regular season during the '70s, however the Good Guys fell short against them in Super Bowl XIV, following the '79 season.

Within the NFC, our team's problem was that the other two dominant teams of that decade, the Cowboys and Vikings, had superior QBs in Roger Staubach and Fran Tarkenton respectively, and that edge tended to show up during playoff games. The Rams were 2-3 vs. the Cowboys and 1-3 vs. the Vikings in postseason matchups during the 70s, although ironically both Staubach and Tarkenton ended their NFL careers with playoff losses to the Good Guys.

Each year of that decade I went into the season hoping for a postseason winning streak, then our team finally managed a short one in '79, which was unexpected at that time.

Still, back then very few pro football fans would snicker when I informed them (verbally or visually, via my clothing) that I was a Rams fan, our team was seriously respected... 8-) :geek:

ram pathos...

--The Commish

[Ramsfan08ny]

Pretty simple for me. It was around 66-67, growing up in NY. The adult men had football on, and as a 7 year old kid, I saw the uniforms, and loved them. Earliest players I remember were Gabe, Sniw, and Josephson. Like every other diehard, went through some bad, make that , horrible years. Stuck with them. Every year "this year" was going to be the year they turned it around for me.

Yeah, that's about the timeframe I saw "the helmet".
Your (and my) early teens were some great years to be a Rams fan - they were playoff-bound pretty much every year. Some great teams in the 70's.
Unfortunately, the Steelers and Cowboys also had great teams then. :?

They gave it all they had vs the Steelers in the SB. Game was actually closer than the score would suggest. The teams who often broke my heart? Dallas and Minny.

[Ants]

Yeah, that's about the timeframe I saw "the helmet".
Your (and my) early teens were some great years to be a Rams fan - they were playoff-bound pretty much every year. Some great teams in the 70's.
Unfortunately, the Steelers and Cowboys also had great teams then. :?

They gave it all they had vs the Steelers in the SB. Game was actually closer than the score would suggest. The teams who often broke my heart? Dallas and Minny.

Yeah, I recall even the announcers after that game said it might have been the best Super Bowl ever. 8-)

[Hacksaw]

Sould have beaten the Steelers. What was Eddie Brown thinking? His coverage of air and the sideline on that death blow play reminded me of Taylor Rapp's coverage in that game against SF a couple years back. Blasphemous! ! !

[Jack85Youngblood]

So many people cite "the Uniforms" and they give us this monstrosity. F U Stan + Kevin!

Add me to the list. Always loved football. Played up through college (Division 3). As a kid in the late sixties, I liked the Packers and then changed to the 49ers. The local teams: Eagles, Giants and Jets were pretty bad in the early 70s. When the Rams changed their uniforms in 73; they became my favorite team. Those cool blue/yellows were just too awesome for me to like any other team. I was a running back; and the Rams always had great running backs. I will always be a Rams fan even though their uniforms and logo are now horrible. I have plenty of throwback gear.