Oct. 10,1999 The Reckoning of Bruce.

[DaveFan'51]

That was fun to rewatch.

I was in STL at the time but couldn't get tickets for this game. So... my friends packed a TV and power converter and we watched the game from a parking lot just outside the dome.

The city was in full party mode after this win.

Great memories!

I remember thinking we were legit after this one.

I'll bet you guys had fun in the parking lot! Especially because you didn't have to pay the Stadium prices for Beer!!

 

[Zero]

So... my friends packed a TV and power converter and we watched the game from a parking lot just outside the dome.

I know you would have rather have been inside,but to me
that would be so freakin cool.Kicked back with your bros
eating on some nachos sipping on a cold one.
Your watching it on tv and when there's a big play
you can hear the roar from the stadium.
To me that would have been a strong second,
only to being inside.
Cheers on that one CG.

 

[Leuzer]

??
Guess he didn't make the highlight reel.

I thought the same thing making that video. Rice was targeted 7 times with had 4 receptions for 42 yards that game with a long of 19 yards. He was shut down for most of the game.

 

[Zero]

Thanks, Zero. Those were the days when I had to go to sports bars as well. I live in NC, too. Ram fan all of my life.

Cheers, my Carolina Rams Brother.
Same here on the Ram lifer.
I know a lot of people converted to the Panthers when they came into the league,
but all it meant to me was that I could go watch my Rams when they were
playing in Carolina.

 

[Zero]

I thought the same thing making that video. Rice was targeted 7 times with had 4 receptions for 42 yards that game with a long of 19 yards. He was shut down for most of the game.

Oh crap.I didn't realize that was you who made the vids.
Thanks a ton Bro.I have been enjoying the hell out of
those things.
Had I known,I definitely would have given you props on the OP.
Sorry bout the omission.

 

[Zero]

Tony Who!?! Just Kidding!!! Tony was our great KR man with the GSOT and Az handled the PR's for the most part, Tony did some too!

View attachment 19991 Tony totaled 143 KR's for 3577 Yds. and 4 TD's with a Long of 103 Yds. and an average of 25.0 He also had 2 TD's receiving, and that was just in the Regular Season!
View attachment 19992
In 4 Playoff games Tony had 14 KR's for 336 Yds. and 1 TD. with a long of 95 Yds. and a 24.0 average!

I have no clue why he didn't last more than 3 Seasons with the Rams! Memory fails me!

Watching him today,I was thinking man this guy probably would have been better suited to play
a RB more so than WR .If we hadn't had Faulk I think he would have made a
pretty good 3rd down or receiving back.His acceleration and slashing style in the open field
was awesome.

I have no clue why he didn't last more than 3 Seasons with the Rams!

I do know he was suspended for 4 games in 99 for illegal substance.Maybe that had something to do with it.

I forgot all about Lawrence Phillips playing for the 9ers in that game, until I watched the video.

 

[tempests]

I have no clue why he didn't last more than 3 Seasons with the Rams! Memory fails me!

Pretty much after our Super Bowl year, I got injured on a Monday night when we were playing the Washington Redskins. I had just fumbled the kickoff before and Washington got three points out of it. I was thinking, I have to redeem myself, Monday Night Football game, everyone’s watching it. I got to redeem myself. Washington kicked off and I caught the ball in the end zone, and when I caught it, I planted my foot and I heard a bone pop. I was so struck when I had just fumbled the ball the previous kickoff, I took the ball and ran like fifty-sixty yards, passed mid-field, and as soon as I passed mid-filed, my momentum just left. I just fell to the ground and that’s when I realized I sprained my spectral in half. What had happened in St. Louis, I should have had surgery then, but they just put me in a boot, a cast, and I stayed on that for four weeks. I tried to come back too early, end up making it worse. Dick Vermeil went out to Kansas City. I went out to Kansas City with him in the Trent Green trade, and I ended up hurting it out there again. I was over-compensating had hamstring and knee problems, and actually that was the last time I played in the NFL. I was trying to make a comeback; I was trying to get healthy. I went to the Canadian League, and I just couldn’t get healthy. I ended up having several more bolts inserted into my big foot, which I was in a cast for five months. It took me a year and a half to walk again. I got off that injury, and ended up having two more knee surgeries; I had a scope on my knee, which was a big surgery that had some cartilage floating around, and that was it.

-https://prointerviews.org/2011/07/27/tonyhorne/

 

[Mackeyser]

I ended up down a Youtube rabbit hole of games from 1999.

I got emotional. They were such a damn good team on offense and defense and special teams.

I want that for us so badly. I really do.

 

[Mackeyser]

Pretty much after our Super Bowl year, I got injured on a Monday night when we were playing the Washington Redskins. I had just fumbled the kickoff before and Washington got three points out of it. I was thinking, I have to redeem myself, Monday Night Football game, everyone’s watching it. I got to redeem myself. Washington kicked off and I caught the ball in the end zone, and when I caught it, I planted my foot and I heard a bone pop. I was so struck when I had just fumbled the ball the previous kickoff, I took the ball and ran like fifty-sixty yards, passed mid-field, and as soon as I passed mid-filed, my momentum just left. I just fell to the ground and that’s when I realized I sprained my spectral in half. What had happened in St. Louis, I should have had surgery then, but they just put me in a boot, a cast, and I stayed on that for four weeks. I tried to come back too early, end up making it worse. Dick Vermeil went out to Kansas City. I went out to Kansas City with him in the Trent Green trade, and I ended up hurting it out there again. I was over-compensating had hamstring and knee problems, and actually that was the last time I played in the NFL. I was trying to make a comeback; I was trying to get healthy. I went to the Canadian League, and I just couldn’t get healthy. I ended up having several more bolts inserted into my big foot, which I was in a cast for five months. It took me a year and a half to walk again. I got off that injury, and ended up having two more knee surgeries; I had a scope on my knee, which was a big surgery that had some cartilage floating around, and that was it.

-https://prointerviews.org/2011/07/27/tonyhorne/

Damn shame because he had such incredible balance.

 

[fearsomefour]

Vermeil shoulda curb stomped them on the one yard line up 22. I remember that.

Yeah, I was disappointed he didn't run it up.
How dare he be classy.

 

[fearsomefour]

Great post and videos.
Thanks.
Such a huge win for that team and a huge confidence builder for them.
So many unsung guys on that team. Pro guys who are not household names that just played big roles in the O/D.
Nutten. Such an undervalued piece of that line. Pace and Miller were the drafted Ts and high profile guys. Timmerman was great and a big FA signing of course. The Rams finding Nutten in Canada....huge addition. He really solidified the line. That last piece.
Todd Collins and Mike Jones.
Both mid level FA signings that just fit. Solid pros that massively improved the D.
London Fletcher. One of the better MLBs of his generation. It's criminal he won't be considered for the HOF.
Tony Horne. Dude could fly and such a weapon.
Last comment.....
Warner....dat touch doh.
Just amazing touch and feel.
So many different kind of passes.
Different arm angles, short, intermediate, long, left, right, ins, outs ect. All delivered with great touch, timing and feel. Look at his stat line. Dude was an assassin.

 

[Leuzer]

Oh crap.I didn't realize that was you who made the vids.
Thanks a ton Bro.I have been enjoying the hell out of
those things.
Had I known,I definitely would have given you props on the OP.
Sorry bout the omission.

Don't worry about it. I'm just glad there's people who enjoy watching my videos.

 

[dieterbrock]

Well, technically, the Rams were 3-0 heading in to that game while the 49ers were 3-1 but I digress....
I watched that game in Vegas. Parlayed the Rams and the over. Had the over locked, and was petrified that the 49ers were gonna back door cover, but Tony Horne put an end to that....

 

[DaveFan'51]

Whoever runs that channel must be a really cool dude!

I know who the Guy is!! I guess he has had a few Good moments! Just kidding Bro!! Keep up the Fine work!!

 

[LACHAMP46]

1999...didn't seem real....I just kept doubting the team....the 9er games gave me a lil hope...but I wasn't a true believer until the playoffs...even that Tampa win, vs Sean King, was just....ehhhh. I wasn't totally satisfied/relaxed until Bruce caught that bomb vs Tennessee. I still remember them beating...the Bills?...on the miracle play.

I never remember Bruce doing the throat slash.

I see why Kurt always rubs it in Mooch's face.

1999....I wanna listen to some Prince now....LOL

 

[SanAnRam]

Cheers, my Carolina Rams Brother.
Same here on the Ram lifer.
I know a lot of people converted to the Panthers when they came into the league,
but all it meant to me was that I could go watch my Rams when they were
playing in Carolina.

Hope Mills, NC.. remember crying in 79 when the Steelers crushed us in the 4th qtr. In an area and time when everyone was Cowboy or Steeler, that blue and gold was glorious. Go DUKE!!!

 

[Florida_Ram]

Hope Mills, NC.. remember crying in 79 when the Steelers crushed us in the 4th qtr. In an area and time when everyone was Cowboy or Steeler, that blue and gold was glorious. Go DUKE!!!

@SanAnRam you just sent me through a time warp and a surreal flashback. .

I was watching the 79 Steelers/Rams SB at my grandfather's house and with less than a minute to go, I started crying like a little boy which I obviously was at the time. That game to this day, was the only game I ever cried over.

My grandfather told me it's okay son, they played well today and they will get back to SB again someday.

(I believed my papi, and waited 20 years for that 1999 season)

 

[RhodyRams]

For the record on my fantasy football team I had Isaac Bruce and Kurt Warner...What a great day and I won the title that year and promised I would not draft a Ram again in fantasy football.

Back then I used to play the salary cap fantasy football on Yahoo. You had like 50 mill to build a team and each players $$$ value would go up or down each week depending on production. I think by the end of the season Warner Bruce and Faulk were worth 30 mill each LOL

 

[RhodyRams]

I do remember that this was the game that really made me sit up and start paying attention to the team more. I didnt have internet at my apt. but the girl I was doing did. She was a nurse who worked on Sundays so I would sit at her house and watch the little helmets on the screen for 3 hours while on the O board chatting with folks like Beer Belly, Epi, Sparky, Stoney etc etc

 

[den-the-coach]

Back then I used to play the salary cap fantasy football on Yahoo. I think by the end of the season Warner Bruce and Faulk were worth 30 mill each LOL

We started the league in 1996 with paper 1999 was the first year we kept the stats with software...Bradshaw fantasy football, quite amazing on how it has evolved. We still have he league till this day (in other leagues as well) and at the time we had trouble getting everyone to agree on a date so we had to do the draft the 2nd week of preseason and I drafted Trent Green....Well, it just made sense to pick up Warner not that I was counting on much because I had another QB, but the fantasy Gods were good to me and the Rams and I'm looking forward to partying again like it's 1999.