If You Don't Care About SB Maybe You Will After Reading This History Of The LA Rams

[den-the-coach]

If You Don't Care About Super Bowl LIII Maybe You Will After Reading This History Of The LA Rams

Sunday afternoon in Atlanta, the Rams will make their second appearance representing Los Angeles in the Super Bowl.

To be fair, L.A. does have a Super Bowl win on its resume when the Raiders won in 1984.

But if the Rams pull it off this Sunday, for many Angelenos with family ties to when the Rams L.A. history, this moment will have been over 70 years in the making.

It's a big deal, because for many longtime L.A. sports fans, the Rams are the city's O.G. team.

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Their L.A. story started in 1946 when they moved from Cleveland, way before the Brooklyn Dodgers or Minneapolis Lakers came west.

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[Lunchbox]

Almost hard to believe. All that history and no SB wins as the L.A. Rams. Just one more reason for everyone to be pulling for these guys tomorrow.

 

[IE Rams]

For most of the '70s, the Rams would come close oh-so-close to getting there, but kept coming up short. Fair or not, they got a reputation for choking in the big games after being one win away from getting to the Super Bowl in the 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1978 seasons.

alm: I remember those years. Every goddam year it was always the Vikes or Cowpies. A lot of character-building heartbreak for a little SoCal kid