I love the Rams

[madrid311]

I was hooked at 8yrs old. I loved the horns on the helmets and I lived in Los Angeles. I think I was the only fan as I moved to Morgan Hill. No. Cal.
All my friends were vikings and cowboys and of course 49er fans. I hated all three. Was working in England when they won their first superbowl. 3 am in the morning it was on in the uk. I never gave up on them After that win. Even during the Fischer years. Lol. Hated that they were in st Louis but still was a rams fan. So happy they moved here to la. but not happy they lost to the 49ers twice and the 0-13 jets. That's what they always do. Even mcvay can't fix the rams curse. Lol.

 

[Classic Rams]

I know I’ve bored you all with this before so sorry, but in the early eighties my old man, an electrical engineer, got a job in LA. We moved over for two years and lived in Monrovia and Pasadena. He’s very much a when in Rome type of person so we embraced all the sports. We regularly went to Dodger stadium. I was only five at the time but picked the Rams as my team as you can see from the photo attached. I had a helmet as well and when we returned to Blighty I took it to school for a show and tell. Shame I don’t still have it really. Oh and my Dad decided to be a Raiders fan. My Dad would have happily stayed out there and got a green card, but my mum wanted to come home as she missed her family. I often remind her of this when it’s freezing cold over here and the Dodgers or Rams are on the tele and the sun is shining. Cheers Mum!!View attachment 42156

Very cool retro pic. I had that exact banner, it's from 1976 when they went 3d with the helmet. Other years' banners had the Rams' helmet flat.

My favorite movie as a kid was Heaven Can Wait. I watched it over and over. The Rams were my favorite team because of that movie.

I was in my 3rd full year in Rams Fantasyland. My dad and I went to see it in a Waikiki theater and I had loved it since. I used to watch my HCW dvd several nights in the last couple years to put myself to sleep. I just get in a major comfort zone re-watching it. I probably broke my Star Wars 1977 movie record with it... or it's neck & neck.

 

[snackdaddy]

The reason I became a Rams fan had as much to do with the Dodgers as anything else. One year as kid I stayed home for a week with the mumps. It was during the world series when they played day games. This was somewhere around 1967 give or take. The other two channels had soap operas so that was all I could watch. I decided to root for the California team and thus became a Dodger fan.

Sometime later at school we were all discussing our favorite teams. I knew the Rams were in the same city so I told them I was a Rams fan. My best buddy said he was a Rams fan too so it worked out great. We were in Fresno and most the other kids were 49er or Raider fans because their parents were.

 

[NJRamsFan]

The reason I became a Rams fan had as much to do with the Dodgers as anything else. One year as kid I stayed home for a week with the mumps. It was during the world series when they played day games. This was somewhere around 1967 give or take. The other two channels had soap operas so that was all I could watch. I decided to root for the California team and thus became a Dodger fan.

Sometime later at school we were all discussing our favorite teams. I knew the Rams were in the same city so I told them I was a Rams fan. My best buddy said he was a Rams fan too so it worked out great. We were in Fresno and most the other kids were 49er or Raider fans because their parents were.

They had TVs back then ? LMAO JUST MESSING WITH YA

 

[snackdaddy]

They had TVs back then ? LMAO JUST MESSING WITH YA

Nah, I just had a very long string with someone who was there.

 

[nighttrain]

Good idea NJ. Getting some positive mojo before our playoff season.

I was 8 years old in 1979 when my uncles who were passionate Rams fans took me to my grandmas to watch the Rams playoff run. I dont Remember the first playoff game vs the Cowboys but I remember beating Tampa Bay and the days leading up to the 79 Super Bowl vs the Steelers. I remember hearing Bradshaw predict a Super Bowl win and how infuriated i was. I remember my dreams getting crushed as Stallworth and Swann flew in the air above our DBs to snatch the game out of mid air.

Each year after that my uncle would buy me Rams gear and Street and Smith season preview magazines from 7-11 so i could read about our draft picks and predictions about the coming season. As a young guy I bought the hype every year that we were going to win it all.

I lived In Northern CA so grew up with Niners domination for two decades surrounded by Niner fans. My high school best friend was the only other Ram fan, mainly because of my passion and his cousin was Rams kicker Mike Lansford.

For the first time in my life in 99 I considered trying to stop watching football because it made me negative and we sucked for so long. Of course, that’s when the miracle season happened and the Rams came out like a gang of bats out of hell scoring TD’s every time they got the ball in what became the Greatest Show on Turf.

It’s been Quite a ride. To this day it amazes me how deep the passion is. Why does it matter so much? Why do I care so much if we win or lose? I am mentally and emotionally unable to unhitch this stupid passion. It’s almost like having a child and seeing them get older and the depth of eternal passion you have for their well being their entire life. It’s absurd when you view it from the outside. But it is an unremoveable part of your life that consumes you forever.

Hell, when you get married you promise “until death do us part” but I’ve found this Rams passion thing is the true “till death do us part”. You couldn’t divorce yourself from this partner if you tried. At least I can’t.

in 1958 i was throwing papers for the old Herald-Examiner, Rams had a new running back, THE JAGUAR JON ARNETT; Arnett not so good, but tricky Dick Bass was, and the HORNS!!!!!, I was hooked
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[cvramsfan]

I was 8 in 1974 when we moved from Modesto to Fresno. The block we lived on all the kids were RAMS fans, so I took the blood oath to love the RAMS and hate the whiners. I did not grow up in an house that watch much sports and as a kid I would rather play the games then watch or follow them. But I have always loved the RAMS. I remember the loss and the catch to the Steelers and actually got to meet Rod Perry after that game as he and our PE teacher went to HS together. He came to our little K-8th school and I told him I wished he was a little taller to knock that ball away.

10 years later when I am 18 I look up my dad in Modesto and he was at a whiners game as a season ticket holder. I think how lucky I was to dodge that bullet. Plus turns out he is a POS anyways and I was lucky to not grow up around him.

RAMS for life, my kids and grandkids are RAMS fans as well. Even converted the wife from the Raiders to the RAMS.

 

[Angry Ram]

Everyone becoming a fan in the 70s, I'm just imagining everyone living in an orange tint world.

As for me - 1999 bandwagoner FTW.

 

[hotanez]

I know I’ve bored you all with this before so sorry, but in the early eighties my old man, an electrical engineer, got a job in LA. We moved over for two years and lived in Monrovia and Pasadena. He’s very much a when in Rome type of person so we embraced all the sports. We regularly went to Dodger stadium. I was only five at the time but picked the Rams as my team as you can see from the photo attached. I had a helmet as well and when we returned to Blighty I took it to school for a show and tell. Shame I don’t still have it really. Oh and my Dad decided to be a Raiders fan. My Dad would have happily stayed out there and got a green card, but my mum wanted to come home as she missed her family. I often remind her of this when it’s freezing cold over here and the Dodgers or Rams are on the tele and the sun is shining. Cheers Mum!!View attachment 42156

I can never get tired of this story.

 

[Ramlock]

My brother was born in ‘61 in Whittier. We had moved to California in 1960; Dad was looking for work.

I was a year old.

My Dad knew Eddie Meador from college. My folks socialized with the Meadors and went to some games.

Fast forward to 1967...football and the Rams emerged on my 8 year old radar and I was fully engaged.

1970...another Arkansas family, the Thorntons moved to Frisco, TX and started a car dealership with Eddie Meador as a partner. At some point, Eddie had a ball signed by the ‘70 Rams and passed it on to my Dad...I was 11.

Fifty years later, that ball is in my office and I still love the Rams.

 

[BuffaloRam]

1999 for me - the GSOT was the greatest thing I had seen - just blew me away. Been a bandwagon fan ever since... but seriously - I have been through the dark times of 2005-2016

 

[Rams4life]

You figure I've been a fan since 1979. So that's 41 years. 16 of those seasons have been a winning record or the playoffs. But 25 have been losing seasons and soul crushing. But I'll always be a fan. Rams4life

 

[RamDino]

Been a fan since 1970. Roman Gabriel was my idol. Had a lot of tough years since then, but I have never liked any other team and never will. Nice to see a lot of old guys on here, like myself. But we all have a lot in common, young and old. I don't go to a lot of games, but next time the Rams win a Super Bowl... we should all get together and party. Go Rams!

 

[Karate61]

I remember becoming a Rams fan when I was just a little "rambunctious" sperm in my Dad's nut sack!

 

[NoCoNite]

I started playing football when I was 8 for the Florissant raiders. Obviously I liked the raiders right away. But I would always go to my friends grandmas house and watch the 99 Rams. It was like every game should of been PPV. I was hooked ever since.

2001 Marshall Faulk was the best football player I’ve ever seen. Even if he is a bit of dick in real life.

 

[NJRamsFan]

Nah, I just had a very long string with someone who was there.

LMAO!

 

[CGI_Ram]

I loved the Packers and Favre in the mid 90s, and then my dad and I went to a restaurant that showed all the games in 1998 and we watched Tony Banks and the Rams take on the juggernaut Vikings. Bruce had long TD, Kennison returned a punt, and Banks was stopped at the goal line in a 38-31 loss.

I was at this game. I remember it vividly like you. One of the loudest games I have attended, then again... I was at the roof of the (then) TWA Dome.

Banks could have slammed that one in, grrrr.

Everyone becoming a fan in the 70s, I'm just imagining everyone living in an orange tint world.

As for me - 1999 bandwagoner FTW.

1999 for me - the GSOT was the greatest thing I had seen - just blew me away. Been a bandwagon fan ever since... but seriously - I have been through the dark times of 2005-2016

Yeah, no bandwagons there. @BuffaloRam is right, anyone who really stuck it thru 2005-2016 is about as hardcore as they come.

 

[NJRamsFan]

I was at this game. I remember it vividly like you. One of the loudest games I have attended, then again... I was at the roof of the (then) TWA Dome.

Banks could have slammed that one in, grrrr.





Yeah, no bandwagons there. @BuffaloRam is right, anyone who really stuck it thru 2005-2016 is about as hardcore as they come.

I don’t think it counts as bandwagon unless you leave your team for the champs or a really good team. I feel like in sports you’re in 1 of two categories...regionally based fans ...or childhood exposure to a great team. It’s no coincidence there’s a ton of warriors fans running around. But I don’t think that’s bandwagoning when you do it at a young age.

 

[Lunchbox]

Don't really remember exactly when I became a fan. Grew up in LA so my dad was a fan. He took me to a game at the Coliseum when I was just a little sprout. I remember Roman, Dick Bass and Les Josephson from that game and of course the Fearsome Foursome. First coach I can remember is George Allen.

Lost touch after I moved to Chicago at 18 and had no good way to keep informed, but then the Rams made the Super Bowl against Pittsburgh in '79 and I became reacquainted. Have followed them ever since through whatever means was available as I continued my trek across the country. Anyone remember the Ram Pages magazine?

Thanks to the internet and satellite TV it became so much easier to be a long distance die-hard fan. First found the Post Dispatch forum after moving to VT in '95 and followed to ROD when I found out about it. Feel like I struck gold as a fan with this forum and all the knowledgeable members.

Rams and ROD forever!

 

[NJRamsFan]

I started playing football when I was 8 for the Florissant raiders. Obviously I liked the raiders right away. But I would always go to my friends grandmas house and watch the 99 Rams. It was like every game should of been PPV. I was hooked ever since.

2001 Marshall Faulk was the best football player I’ve ever seen. Even if he is a bit of dick in real life.

Same here man...it all started with Marshall for me. It looked like those high school games where 1 guy was going pro and the rest were just high schoolers ...except he was doing it in the NFL...

I saw a clip of either holt or Bruce I think...(don’t quote me) but they were saying how Marshall would tell them in the huddle what he was about to do and actually do it. Like I’m gonna run left mlb is gonna do this I’m gonna juke inside and spin around him etc..