We had some pretty great football teams with Coach Welch. I only played my freshman year. Tucker was my coach then. Welch was my track coach and I couldn’t stand him so I stopped playing football. Can’t argue with his success though.
We had rabbit ears only. So did my grandpa. When we would go to his house, his wife (not my grandma) would always be vacuuming for some reason. Every time she’d come into the living room, we’d lose signal and my grandpa would start barking at her. He had aluminum foil wrapped around the antennas to extend them. I really don’t think it helped.
Now Tano lives in the holler on the other side of the crick!
Born and raised in VA but have been living in the heart of Raleigh, NC since 2015.
Great to meet you Rams Brother. I was born in Randolph Hospital in Asheboro.
I used to spend a good part of my summer vacation in Cana , Virginia
Oh My gosh Dude you are bringing back some serious memories.
I moved from PA to South Florida in November (Gulf Coast, been traveling twice a year there for the last 30 years). Took I95 from Northeast of Philly to Florida until I bought an RV. Now gotta avoid the tunnel in Baltimore so I discovered how nice the drive is south through Delaware across the Eastern Shore and over the Cheasapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. What a nice drive. Even modified that route going Southwest through N. Carolina to Wilson, then pick up I95. It eliminates the clusterfook from Philly through Richmond (and the rest of VA). It's so much less stressful. May take a little longer but I'm in no hurry anymore.
I guess we got this backwards, or something.... been married 45 years - but I got my wife a tractor just last year... In your 60/70's, this device is invaluable around the farm!
RAMS played steelers in 1975 on a Saturday night 'special edition of MNF and in 1978 on a Sunday night version of MNF. LA won both matchups allowing a total of only ten points combined across the two games.
I have also said this before but I became a Ram fan around 1970 (loved Roman Gabriel and wanted to be a QB) and have been a diehard fan ever since. Lost all interest in other sports over time. Grew up in upstate NY right in the heart of the finger lakes in Seneca Falls. Went to school in Herkimer and then Geneseo and finally settled in Victor. Where did you grow up Mola?Another NC resident here, I'm just a few minutes north of Charlotte NC. Grew up in upstate NY. It was those Glorious Horns that sucked me in as a very young kid around 1970 or so.
The following is from a post I made in 2019 that kinda explains things. I'm too lazy to re-think and re-type the whole story out again, so I copied and pasted.
Hello everyone!
Long time lurker around here, joined a while back, but generally read more than I write....that, or someone always says what I'm thinking before I get around to it.
Anyways, I've been a Rams fan for over 45 years....it was those horns on the helmet that drew me in as a young boy in '69 or '70. I lived in upstate NY with no NFL cities close by, so no major influences to get in the way.
Moved to NC in the early '80's. The Panthers came to town in '95.
We all know about the Rams in the '90's. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Rams would have been the worst team of the '90's if it weren't for the Bengals or the Browns...?
Anyways, I considered switching teams back then. The Rams were horrible, and the Panthers, led by the legendary Bill Polian as GM, were the hot new thing. In '96, they made the playoffs.
But I couldn't quite do it then. But I was sorta on the fence, so to speak. If I was gonna leave, that was the time. It was the first time in my life I actually lived in an NFL home city.
But then there was a Rams game on TV, played in St. Louis, against the Panthers....I sat down to watch, actually not knowing who I was going to pull for.... Then the Rams Roman Phifer scooped up a fumble and headed for the endzone...50 yards or so, I think he ended up getting tackled at the 1 or so and fumbled himself.............
But the thing is, I was on my feet, screaming for him...GO! GO! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
I will NEVER forget that moment.
I think the Rams lost that game, but it didn't matter.
Because that was the moment that I KNEW, for an undeniable fact, that the Rams would ALWAYS be my team, no matter what. What city, or what circumstance, or whatever. It was set in stone.
And I'm still here.
GO RAMS!
