Any real oldheads around, or anyone who knows what it was like being a Rams fan back in the 50s–70s?

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Loyal said:
I'm from LA, but lived in Houston during "Earlers" time in the sun with HC Bum Phillips, Dan Pastorini, Earl Campbell, Billy White Shoes Johnson. The only time I ever saw the Rams in those years was by the off chance that the Oilers played the Rams in LA or my Dad took me to a game in the Astrodome. I lived by the Monday sports page blurb about Rams games (very small paragraph).
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When the Oilers drafted Campbell I started liking them. I always cheered for them to beat the Steelers in the playoffs but it wasn't meant to be. I saw the game on TV where Earl ran over Isiah. Rams were undefeated and Houston stood in our way, but then #58 got plowed when he tried to get in Campbell's way! Thankfully the defense stopped everyone else and limited Campbell to just a couple of big runs.

Selassie I said:
Small world Brudda. I started in 74 or 75 (I can't remember lol), and I grew up in Pearl City. The Ram games were televised there more than other teams for sure. The games came on in the morning time on Sundays mostly. Saturday morning cartoons and Sunday morning Ram games. That's how I got hooked.
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We lived in Palisades since the late 60's. Sundays at my house football came first! That was my TV time. My younger sisters could have their cartoons on Saturdays although I was a big watcher too until I got into football. Parents were divorced but we'd catch the bus down to our dad's apartment called The Skyrise, right near Ala Wai Canal by Marco Polo. I'd watch games with him there too.

I'm sure you remember Kam Swap meet. I was a big Marvel comic kid and there were tons of boxes of comics in plastics there back in the early 70's when I was collecting them. I had a favorite old comic shop called Aldamar Books down by hotel street and they used to get lots of old back issues in almost every weekend. Got some good ones before they got expensive. You may not be into comics but football stuff at the Swap meet other than trading cards was abundant. We'd walk up and down the aisles and eye everyone's stuff and when we saw anything NFL we'd scoop them up. I bought 2 of those old plastic Ram kid helmets with the plastic 2-bar facemask. The ones you could wear; one with the gold horn and then scored the white horn one. They were only like a buck maybe. Wish I still had them they'd make good bookends for my shelf! There was also electric football games there and we got the boards and a friend got a bunch of the painted plastic men. Before Ebay that's how we got the cool stuff. When Ebay got popular in the mid-late 90's those stores and swap meets started to have zero football stuff or comics. Everyone was taking stuff online.
 
Ground Chuck

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snackdaddy said:
We got a lot of old farts here. I look at my life as a football game. Right now I think I'm in the 4th quarter. I hope its early in the 4th and not at the two minute warning.
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You know, @snackdaddy I just turned 60 Friday, so I suppose I’m headed to the 4th quarter myself.

I find I used to score at will in the first half, but I sure got called for illegal use of the hands quite a bit.

Heading to the third quarter I think my scoring slowed down, but my coaching got a bit better. A bit harder to find a good tight end as well.

As I head to the 4th quarter, I just hope I just hope I am not going to be guilty of any movement violations. :clinkingbeer: :laugh2::crap:
 
snackdaddy

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Ground Chuck said:
You know, @snackdaddy I just turned 60 Friday, so I suppose I’m headed to the 4th quarter myself.

I find I used to score at will in the first half, but I sure got called for illegal use of the hands quite a bit.

Heading to the third quarter I think my scoring slowed down, but my coaching got a bit better. A bit harder to find a good tight end as well.

As I head to the 4th quarter, I just hope I just hope I am not going to be guilty of any movement violations.
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I seem to have more unsportsmanlike conduct violations as I get older. Mainly taunting.
 
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RamFan503 said:
Hey. Stop talking about @VegasRam !
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Ground Chuck

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snackdaddy said:
I seem to have more unsportsmanlike conduct violations as I get older. Mainly taunting.
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My wife seems to think I’m pretty good at the tush push. So I figure I’ve got that going for me. Which is nice.

(Also, I have zero male cheerleaders roaming my sidelines.)
 
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