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I'm sure many of you have some great stories to tell about either how you became a Rams fan, things about the Rams that you remember, other football players or teams you have met or had dealings with, etc.
I get a kick out of reading about them and I'm sure many others do as well.
I'll start it off with one some of you may have already read about and I know a few of you were even at the game I'm going to mention. Sorry if it's a bit long winded.
My dad and I have had some of our most memorable times center around the Rams. I would almost always buy him Rams related gifts for Christmas and birthdays and he would take me to games and buy me Rams stuff as well. Inevitably, whenever he or I would call the other, we would get on some Rams related subject and end the call with "Go Rams" even if the Rams were never brought up.
Well I had been living in the NW for several years and going up to Seattle for the Ram games any time they played up there. We were getting ready to go to the game up in Seattle in 2004 and I had a chance to get an extra ticket where we were sitting. So I called my dad to see if he might want to go.
I didn't really think he'd do it because it would mean flying up from LA on very short notice to do it. But, he jumped at the chance. I picked him up at the airport in Portland on Sunday morning and drove up to Seattle that day along with KMRamsfan and one other guy.
We spent an hour or so having a couple beers at Safeco Field and then headed over to Qwest Field in our Rams gear. Of course we were being accosted by the shecock faithful but most of it was in good fun.
We got in and found our seats. 7 of us Rams fans together completely surrounded by blue home jerseys.
Well the first three quarters were really hard to watch. The Rams were getting completely outplayed and every time the shitchickens would do anything remotely decent on the field, these two guys took it upon themselves to make sure we knew it.
One of the idiots was sitting about 8 rows in front of us and took the opportunity to get out of his seat, squeeze by everyone to get out to the steps and run up the steps ands shout at us from about 10 seats away. Another tool two rows in front of us decides that is how you show you're a great fan and starts standing up and pointing his finger at us and as he's frothing and spitting, starts calling us bandwagoners and fair weather fans, blah blah blah. I took that as my cue to lift up my Grant Wistrom jersey (playing for Seattle that season) and show him my LA Rams tee shirt and then point to my Superbowl Champion hat.
Well some time during the second quarter a big linebacker sized dude wearing a Bosworth jersey sitting in front of me stands up, puts his finger right in the idiot's chest and says, "you spit on me again, you're going down". Ha! I guess there are some decent Seattle fans after all.
Well that didn't stop the other yahoo. But the other fans on his aisle asked him to just stay out at the steps instead of squeezing by them every couple minutes.
But then it started to turn. With a little less than 6 minutes left in the game and the Rams down by 17, Bulger hit Manumaleuna in the end zone from 8 yards out to cut it to 10. The pinhead had his back to the play as he was yelling some crap to us about the last play. I just motioned with my finger to turn around and watch.
He did his best to act like it didn't matter but our little section was high fiving and a couple of the Seattle fans around us who we had been exchanging good natured ribbings with us jokingly high fived us as well. They still thought the game was in hand.
Well a three and out followed by a one play TD drive on a crossing route to Kevin Curtis ended that fantasy and the natives were getting restless. The guy standing on the steps had his back turned to us and had his head in his hands (oh no). This time - no high fives by the fans around us - though we tried.
Then on the next series, Little has a sack and strip but Seattle recovers and has to punt. The Rams get it to the 18 with 13 seconds left and Wilkins ties the game. You could hear a pin drop in that stadium. The guy on the steps? Sitting down on the steps - almost fetal.
It goes to OT, the Rams win the toss and a 52 yard toss to Shawn McDonald and the game is over. A couple of the Seattle fans nodded to us as they left. Stooge on the steps scurried away.
We kicked back and finished our beers.
Afterward, we kicked around Seattle for a while, ate a crapload of King Crab and just smiled at each other because none of us could talk.
I get a kick out of reading about them and I'm sure many others do as well.
I'll start it off with one some of you may have already read about and I know a few of you were even at the game I'm going to mention. Sorry if it's a bit long winded.
My dad and I have had some of our most memorable times center around the Rams. I would almost always buy him Rams related gifts for Christmas and birthdays and he would take me to games and buy me Rams stuff as well. Inevitably, whenever he or I would call the other, we would get on some Rams related subject and end the call with "Go Rams" even if the Rams were never brought up.
Well I had been living in the NW for several years and going up to Seattle for the Ram games any time they played up there. We were getting ready to go to the game up in Seattle in 2004 and I had a chance to get an extra ticket where we were sitting. So I called my dad to see if he might want to go.
I didn't really think he'd do it because it would mean flying up from LA on very short notice to do it. But, he jumped at the chance. I picked him up at the airport in Portland on Sunday morning and drove up to Seattle that day along with KMRamsfan and one other guy.
We spent an hour or so having a couple beers at Safeco Field and then headed over to Qwest Field in our Rams gear. Of course we were being accosted by the shecock faithful but most of it was in good fun.
We got in and found our seats. 7 of us Rams fans together completely surrounded by blue home jerseys.
Well the first three quarters were really hard to watch. The Rams were getting completely outplayed and every time the shitchickens would do anything remotely decent on the field, these two guys took it upon themselves to make sure we knew it.
One of the idiots was sitting about 8 rows in front of us and took the opportunity to get out of his seat, squeeze by everyone to get out to the steps and run up the steps ands shout at us from about 10 seats away. Another tool two rows in front of us decides that is how you show you're a great fan and starts standing up and pointing his finger at us and as he's frothing and spitting, starts calling us bandwagoners and fair weather fans, blah blah blah. I took that as my cue to lift up my Grant Wistrom jersey (playing for Seattle that season) and show him my LA Rams tee shirt and then point to my Superbowl Champion hat.
Well some time during the second quarter a big linebacker sized dude wearing a Bosworth jersey sitting in front of me stands up, puts his finger right in the idiot's chest and says, "you spit on me again, you're going down". Ha! I guess there are some decent Seattle fans after all.
Well that didn't stop the other yahoo. But the other fans on his aisle asked him to just stay out at the steps instead of squeezing by them every couple minutes.
But then it started to turn. With a little less than 6 minutes left in the game and the Rams down by 17, Bulger hit Manumaleuna in the end zone from 8 yards out to cut it to 10. The pinhead had his back to the play as he was yelling some crap to us about the last play. I just motioned with my finger to turn around and watch.
He did his best to act like it didn't matter but our little section was high fiving and a couple of the Seattle fans around us who we had been exchanging good natured ribbings with us jokingly high fived us as well. They still thought the game was in hand.
Well a three and out followed by a one play TD drive on a crossing route to Kevin Curtis ended that fantasy and the natives were getting restless. The guy standing on the steps had his back turned to us and had his head in his hands (oh no). This time - no high fives by the fans around us - though we tried.
Then on the next series, Little has a sack and strip but Seattle recovers and has to punt. The Rams get it to the 18 with 13 seconds left and Wilkins ties the game. You could hear a pin drop in that stadium. The guy on the steps? Sitting down on the steps - almost fetal.
It goes to OT, the Rams win the toss and a 52 yard toss to Shawn McDonald and the game is over. A couple of the Seattle fans nodded to us as they left. Stooge on the steps scurried away.
We kicked back and finished our beers.
Afterward, we kicked around Seattle for a while, ate a crapload of King Crab and just smiled at each other because none of us could talk.