Selassie I said:
I remember that like it was just yesterday... it still pisses me off because it should have said ........
BLAME john freaking shaw
Make that correction and I'd proudly display the sign even today.
I don;t know about other teams but it seems that many Rams fans had conceptual trouble blaming the suits for anything. Or since "blame" is really the wrong word, it's "holding them accountable."
I think it was around 2006 where Zygmunt became massively unpopular, and people began to turn on him.
BUT if you ever criticized him BEFORE then, it brought down wrath and fury like nothing else in Rams posting. Frankly, there was nothing wrong with JZ in 2007 that wasn't already evident in 99. But the way it seemed to work is this--you can criticize a player, and people will take sides and debate it; you can criticize a coach, and people will take sides and debate it; but criticize a suit before he tips critical mass and becomes unpopular, and it leads to mass resistance. And I mean over the top. Not just "I disagree" but "what's wrong with you for thinking that way get therapy" kinds of responses.
Then finally people turned on Shaw too. Now even the Rams themselves feel compelled to hide the amount of his involvement, even if his involvement is tiny.