The St. Louis Rams are an older Nfl team. They began playing in 1936 and were originally in Cleveland, Ohio. They were previously the Cleveland Rams and were a charter member of the second American Football League. At present they play in the Western branch of the Nfc in the National Football League. The team has two Nfl Championships under their belt and one Super Bowl victory.
The team became known as the Rams of Los Angeles after they moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946. Then after the 1979 season, they moved to the south suburbs in Orange County next door and started playing their games in the Anaheim Stadium. They played there for 15 years and kept the Los Angeles name. Then the team was moved to St. Louis just before the 1995 season.
Homer Marshman was the Cleveland Rams founder in 1936. Their name came from the nickname from Fordham University. Rams was a term that was used to honor the football players' hard work ethic that came from the University of the same name. They were originally of the new American football League and they complete their first year with a 5-2-2 record.
It was the next year that the team joined the Nfl and was located in the Western Division. They were like a lot of the teams from that era in that the manpower shortages caused by World War Ii caused them to have to hang play during the 1943 season. They did resume play in 1944 and had a winning season in 1945 in Ohio. They had a 9-1 season description and won their first Nfl Championship. They beat the Washington Redskins in December 16, with a score of 15-14 at home.
It was in 1946 that the Ram's owner became fed up with poor attendance at the games at Cleveland Stadium and decided to move the Rams to Los Angeles. This made them the first Nfl pro football team on the west coast. They leased the Los Angeles Memorial coliseum and the team played there from 1946-1979. When the owner, Dan Reeves passed away in 1971, the Colt's owner took over the team. His name was Carroll Rosenbloom. He was instrumental in having the Rams began the move to play in Anaheim Stadium in 1980.
Georgia Rosenbloom inherited the team after her husband's death in 1979 while her stepson became the team's manager. Two weeks later, she fired him.
In the 1995 and 196 seasons the Rams were coached by head coach Rich Brooks. Then dick Vermeil was hired as head coach in 1997. He stayed with the team until he retired after the 2000 season. This was the season where the Rams won Super Bowl Xxxiv against Tennessee Titans. Mike Martz was the coach for the next year where the Rams were again in the Super Bowl but got beat by the New England Patriots. That year saw the beginning of a type of downward spiral for the Rams. They do have some excellent players that have been very flourishing with the team. One is the talented Steven Jackson from Oregon State.
After a 28 year colorful rights stint of the Rams, Georgia Frontier passed away in January of 2008. The rights of the team has been passed down to the son Dale "Chip" Rosenbloom and her daughter Lucia Rodriquez. Chip Rosenbloom is the new Rams majority owner.
The Rams are known to be first pro football team to have a logo on their helmet. A team halfback by the name of Fred Gehrke painted "ram Horns" on the team's helmets for the 1948 season. This has been the club's logo ever since.
The team has changed colors any times. They were red and black in 1937 and changed to yellow and blue in 1938. Then they went to solid yellow in the mid 1940s with the yellow gold horns on a blue helmet. Then in 1964, the colors were again changed to blue and white. They have changed nearby their colors on a consistent basis and in 2008 the team was wearing a white jersey with blue pants when they beat the Dallas Cowboys in October by a score of 34-14.
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