Hi folks,
I'm from Australia originally but my Dad was in the Royal Australian Air Force and we got a posting to Norton Air Force Base, California in 1974 when I was 6 years old. That's where I picked up my love of US sports and my teams so I'm a Rams, Dodgers and Lakers fan.
I've been following the Rams ever since, catching whatever games I could get on late night TV here in Australia but mostly reading about them in Football Digest and later, with the advent of the Internet, online. My friends and I also learned quite a lot by playing Statis Pro Football, if you can believe it. My love of the game of American Football (which we refer to as ‘Gridiron’) led me to play at my university, which had a team in a (very) amateur state competition. I played 100 games for the Waverley Sharks and loved every single minute of it.
I was travelling the world in 1999 and missed the entire season of the Greatest Show on Turf except the Super Bowl, which I was lucky enough to catch in a backpacker's hostel in London. I was the happiest person in the room that night by a long way.
Favourite players over the years have included the Fearsome Foursome, the Youngbloods, Johnny Capeletti, Eric Dickerson and his awesome O-line of Pankey, Hill, Smith, Harrah and Slater, the mid 80s secondary of Irvin, Cromwell, Green and Johnson and later on Lyght and McNeil, Ellard and Flipper , Bruce and Holt, Warner, Faulk and Pace. So many more but I’ve rambled on too much already J.
I lost contact a bit during the 2000s but I’m really keen on following them closely again. One of my dreams is to get over to the States and watch the Rams back home in LA. I hope to realise that dream one day soon.
I’m glad that I’ve found a community of like-minded folk and I look forward to reading some of your game experiences throughout the next season.
Thanks for having me.
