What was/is your favorite Rams team??

[Faceplant]

Agree; and I would also throw in 1983 for us older guys.

The '73-'80 run was fantastic, and we were kids (I am a couple years older than you).
Then 1981 and 1982 were absolutely brutal. 6-10 followed by the awful 2-7 strike-shortened season and the Bert Jones disappointment. Great veterans getting old, declining and moving-on. Some due to age, some to injuries and a few to contracts ... Reynolds, Brooks, Dryer, Elmendorf, France, Saul, Brudzinski, Thomas, Williams, Perry, Bryant, Tyler, Fanning and a few more.

1983 brought a new coach (Robinson), new star (Dickerson), a new 3-4 Defense under Shurmur (No Way Youngblood could be successful as a 3-4-DE I thought). There were tons of young players starting or playing key reserve roles ... Collins, Meisner, Pankey, Ellard, Owens, Wilcher, Irvin and a few others ... AND, It All Worked! ... Capped with a playoff win in Dallas!

Yeah, 83' is up there too. I was only 11 but I clearly remember drafting ED and John Robinson taking over as coach. He was the perfect coach for that team at that time IMO.

Just sux that there were other great teams in the NFC in the 80s and the Rams couldn't find a QB to pair with Dickerson. Rams seemed to always be the bridesmaids that decade.

 

[AvengerRam]

Too hard to pick one…

1979, 1985, 1999, 2021 and, yes, this year, certainly come to mind.

And I have a good feeling about 2024!

 

[Loyal]

Definitely on board with the Cowturd hate!

Do you ever think any of those 70’s/80’s teams get past the Cowboys or Vikings they win the Championship?

Maybe....But only if the same rules applied in the 70's were allowed in the game. The players back then were slower and smaller, for the most part. BUT, it would shock the present days team to have QB's getting hit like tackling dummies with no fouls. Any receiver going over the middle would get slaughtered like in the old days. And, I think they called holding a lot more back then......

 

[Loyal]

Yeah can you imagine if AD hadn't gotten that ring? I mean we had him, Stafford, Whit, etc that team coming up short would have killed me. That NFC Championship was about the most nervous I've ever been watching a game. I was almost in a panic there in the third quarter when it felt like it was slipping away.

Yeah, the NFCCG was more important to me than the Super Bowl. Getting beat by those Sonsa*&^% and then having their fans soil SoFi forever, would have been intolerable. The coup d' grace would have been their beating the Bengals and celebrating again in our house..

Now, we can enjoy SoFi, knowing that the Rams won the first Super Bowl, hosted there.


Remember, this song serenaded the Niner's faithful as they filed out of SoFi after their crushing defeat.....


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcADqxnQA_4

 

[OldSchool]

There are only 2 answers to this for me. The main answer being the current team. That's who I'm rooting for that's my favorite team.

Secondary answer would be the first Rams team I ever watched. The Los Angeles Rams of Super Bowl XIV.

I don't really think much about the teams in between, keeps me from thoughts about preferring a recently released player or how we should have done some move different. Support the guys in the Horns right now and don't worry about the rest IMO.

 

[badnews]

This year, 21, 99, 17, 03, 01

Sounds like the numbers from "Lost"

 

[den-the-coach]

I don't really think much about the teams in between, keeps me from thoughts about preferring a recently released player or how we should have done some move different. Support the guys in the Horns right now and don't worry about the rest IMO.

Funny, I never struggle with attachment to players and I don't know why. Loved Kurt Warner, but when he was gone, he was gone and I moved onto Bulger. I guess I realized it is just part of the game now. However, even in my younger years like with Jack Reynolds in San Francisco, did it bother that he won as a 49ers? Yes, but it's not like I missed him and maybe that is part of the Military in me never getting too close, that and my wife referring to me as the Tinman when were dating years ago.

 

[OldSchool]

Funny, I never struggle with attachment to players and I don't know why. Loved Kurt Warner, but when he was gone, he was gone and I moved onto Bulger. I guess I realized it is just part of the game now. However, even in my younger years like with Jack Reynolds in San Francisco, did it bother that he won as a 49ers? Yes, but it's not like I missed him and maybe that is part of the Military in me never getting too close, that and my wife referring to me as the Tinman when were dating years ago.

I also put "potential draft picks" in that category personally

 

[Ellard80]

tie for me

1999 and 2021

1999 was out of nowhere dominant team after a decade of pure suck.

2021 was a team that had high expectations and managed to live up to them - which is hard to do.

 

[Loyal]

One of the '73-'79 teams should have won it all. All of these teams lost to either the Cowboys or the Vikings, Aside from the '79 team, we lost 2 NFCCG's to Minnesota and also lost 2 NFCCG's to Dallas.

Even though we lost in the divisional round to Dallas in the 1973 season, it may have been our best team of them all. It was a dirty shame that Dallas got the home game when we had a better record that year. If the game had been held in LA, who knows what would have happened? My Dad and I attended the last game of the regular season in the Coliseum where we beat the Browns. Emotions ran so high in LA and then it ended so suddenly the next week with a dull thud.

 

[Ram65]

All of them!!!!!

Go Rams!!!!!

 

[Loyal]

Funny, I never struggle with attachment to players and I don't know why. Loved Kurt Warner, but when he was gone, he was gone and I moved onto Bulger. I guess I realized it is just part of the game now. However, even in my younger years like with Jack Reynolds in San Francisco, did it bother that he won as a 49ers? Yes, but it's not like I missed him and maybe that is part of the Military in me never getting too close, that and my wife referring to me as the Tinman when were dating years ago.

"He was a heartless bastid...." ~ Dorothy

 

[den-the-coach]

Even though we lost in the divisional round to Dallas in the 1973 season, it may have been our best team of them all. It was a dirty shame that Dallas got the home game when we had a better record that year. If the game had been held in LA, who knows what would have happened? My Dad and I attended the last game of the regular season in the Coliseum where we beat the Browns. Emotions ran so high in LA and then it ended so suddenly the next week with a dull thud.

Not only did the Rams have a better record then the Cowboys that year, they beat Dallas in Los Angeles 37-31 in October too. Back then, home field was rotational, eventually they changed that. Still Rams came up short usually against Dallas & Minnesota because of Quarterback play. I only wish Roman Gabriel was several years younger as both him & Hadl had one good year left in them at 33 in 73.

 

[henry dyer]

losing to bob lee and the vikings when they had home field edge was an epic failure

 

[Angry Ram]

Interesting, nobody pining for the 2009 team eh?

Keith Null. QB. West Texas A&M.

 

[Londoner]

Keith Null.

Pity we couldn’t void his games.

 

[Ramstien]

To me it was 1999 the whole worst to first thing. Rams went from the provable laughingstock to Superbowl champion with a relatively unknown Kurt Warner at QB.

 

[PhillyRam]

For me it will always be those late 70's teams. I became a fan back then and even though they broke my pre-teen heart many times, I will always remember those teams as my team. The early to mid 80's are probably 2nd, for similar reasons.

After FA hit the league, teams became more mercenary like and less homegrown.

And of course 99' was special with Vermeil & Warner. The NFL was just not the same as the way it was when growing up.

 

[tempests]

Keith Null. QB. West Texas A&M.

And plenty of Rams fans wanted to see him play. Bulger being the popular scapegoat among them.

"We have to see what we have!" they protested.

 

[henry dyer]

.I admire what a winning coach spagnuolo was his pillars were incredibly inspirational to this day I think that the rams overwhelming success was because of the esoteric concepts of the pillars, which were

1) be pathetic on offense
2) defense
3) special teams
4) execution