Loved the cold weather, Bud Grant the consummate professional. NFL Films wanted to mic Grant in the Super Bowl against the Chiefs, he declined whereas the ultimate showman Hank Stram embraced the opportunity and the rest is NFL history.
The irony of not disliking the Head Coaches because most of them were very similar with not showing emotion the likes of Grant, Landry, Noll & Knox for example. Respected all of them and unfortunately as you so elegantly communicated, the Rams always seem to come up short.
It's because Head Coaches conduced themselves back then with class, well, most of them. There still were characters back then in Norm Van Brocklin (always smoking on the sidelines) of the Falcons & of course George Allen of Washington.
And the Great Matriculator, Hank StramIt's because Head Coaches conduced themselves back then with class, well, most of them. There still were characters back then in Norm Van Brocklin (always smoking on the sidelines) of the Falcons & of course George Allen of Washington.
Yeah, by comparison Madden acted like a nut and I couldn't stand him... Whenever they were on TV my mom used to say stuff like, "What's wrong with that guy?" (Madden)The irony of not disliking the Head Coaches because most of them were very similar with not showing emotion the likes of Grant, Landry, Noll & Knox for example. Respected all of them and unfortunately as you so elegantly communicated, the Rams always seem to come up short.
I always felt the Vikings had the greatest team hats over the years before hats were vogue. Grant always donning the Viking and never understood why Knox's hat didn't don the Ram logo instead of the team name.
When Eric Dickerson broke-off the 1st of two long TD-runs in the Divisional Round game against Dallas in 1985, Hank Stram was doing the Color-commentary, with Joe Buck's dad Jack Buck doing the play-by-play.
A great coach and great human being. Led some truly formidable Viking teams.
FWIW I felt the same way about Madden & the Raiders. He appeared unkept & even tried when coaching against Stram to wear a suit & he looked so uncomfortable.
When my dad and I were watching the Rams-Raiders game on TV in 1977, my little sister comes in the room and notices the TV going from the game to a sideline shot and goes "Who's that fat guy?" We have laughed about her saying that for years. Me and my dad never liked the Raiders or Madden and only began liking him more after he got popular in the booth and on Miller lite commercials.
