Any real oldheads around, or anyone who knows what it was like being a Rams fan back in the 50s–70s?

[rdlkgliders]

Yeah, I have a few years under my belt
some early memories off the top of my head.

Being a young kid and watching the Rams V Cowboys at Cal Lutheran College. We sat in the bleacher which were very small and watched, afterward we would get our footballs signed and the go home and play with them in the street rubbing off all the autographs lol

I remember the TV commercials displaying our new Yellow and Blue uni's after the update from Blue& Whites

 

[LARAMSinFeb.]

I love this record:

 

[den-the-coach]

Pat Haden is so short he wore high heeled cleats.

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[Selassie I]

When the Oilers drafted Campbell I started liking them. I always cheered for them to beat the Steelers in the playoffs but it wasn't meant to be. I saw the game on TV where Earl ran over Isiah. Rams were undefeated and Houston stood in our way, but then #58 got plowed when he tried to get in Campbell's way! Thankfully the defense stopped everyone else and limited Campbell to just a couple of big runs.



We lived in Palisades since the late 60's. Sundays at my house football came first! That was my TV time. My younger sisters could have their cartoons on Saturdays although I was a big watcher too until I got into football. Parents were divorced but we'd catch the bus down to our dad's apartment called The Skyrise, right near Ala Wai Canal by Marco Polo. I'd watch games with him there too.

I'm sure you remember Kam Swap meet. I was a big Marvel comic kid and there were tons of boxes of comics in plastics there back in the early 70's when I was collecting them. I had a favorite old comic shop called Aldamar Books down by hotel street and they used to get lots of old back issues in almost every weekend. Got some good ones before they got expensive. You may not be into comics but football stuff at the Swap meet other than trading cards was abundant. We'd walk up and down the aisles and eye everyone's stuff and when we saw anything NFL we'd scoop them up. I bought 2 of those old plastic Ram kid helmets with the plastic 2-bar facemask. The ones you could wear; one with the gold horn and then scored the white horn one. They were only like a buck maybe. Wish I still had them they'd make good bookends for my shelf! There was also electric football games there and we got the boards and a friend got a bunch of the painted plastic men. Before Ebay that's how we got the cool stuff. When Ebay got popular in the mid-late 90's those stores and swap meets started to have zero football stuff or comics. Everyone was taking stuff online.

The closest thing I can think of to comics that I was into was the show Kikaida. Super Violent Japanese Superhero show for kids... of course we had to read the subtitles. You gotta remember that show!

This show was made strictly for Hawaii only. For years you could only find it on DVDs that could only be found in Hawaii. They had labels on them saying it was illegal to take them out of the islands. My Dad was able to get me a few that I still have today. Now... you can watch every season on YouTube.

The opening theme song has been permanently stuck in my head since 1st grade. I can still sing every word of it in Japanese... but I don't know all the translations for the words. LOL



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[bubbaramfan]

I'm so old I just fart dust.

 

[PhillyRam]

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I said earlier, if Bennett ever became the starter, he would be much like Haden. Smart guy, gutty, but in the end size would limit him. And in today's NFL, you can't hand the ball off 40 plus times a game every week.

 

[den-the-coach]

I said earlier, if Bennett ever became the starter, he would be much like Haden. Smart guy, gutty, but in the end size would limit him. And in today's NFL, you can't hand the ball off 40 plus times a game every

Bennett’s arm is much stronger then Haden’s was, but I will give Haden the edge from the neck up.

 

[PhillyRam]

Bennett’s arm is much stronger then Haden’s was, but I will give Haden the edge from the neck up.

Yeah, I was young when he played, so his overall skillset is a little blurry to me, but they also didn't ask as much from the QBs then.

 

[Classic Rams]

The closest thing I can think of to comics that I was into was the show Kikaida. Super Violent Japanese Superhero show for kids... of course we had to read the subtitles. You gotta remember that show!

This show was made strictly for Hawaii only. For years you could only find it on DVDs that could only be found in Hawaii. They had labels on them saying it was illegal to take them out of the islands. My Dad was able to get me a few that I still have today. Now... you can watch every season on YouTube.

The opening theme song has been permanently stuck in my head since 1st grade. I can still sing every word of it in Japanese... but I don't know all the translations for the words. LOL



View: https://youtu.be/ZPutTYvIhJk?si=QDywG87g6FtQnn6I

Remember it... I lived it! Every Sunday evening on KHNL 13 back in the day. Went to the 1st 50th state fair when they came down and bought a Kikaida t-shirt. Used to go to Shirokiya to buy those "dolls." They could also be found at the swap meet. It was a mild obsession for me back in the mid 70's.

More recently downloaded all the episodes from another website and they're sitting in my computer. All with the subtitles. Need those to keep up with the story, like how they were shown in Hawaii. Haven't mastered my Japanese yet but I actually took high school classes so I could read all the memorabilia stuff! Talking about obsessed. Haven't watched in a couple years though.

The Rainbow man series is harder to get. I thought that show was pretty cool. I thought that one was more violent but they all could be like that before kid TV shows got milder because parents complained. I couldn't really get into the other shows they brought in later other than 0-1 and soon got over the faze when I started getting into the Rams.

 

[RamFan503]

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Much appreciated Den.

 

[Steve808]

The closest thing I can think of to comics that I was into was the show Kikaida. Super Violent Japanese Superhero show for kids... of course we had to read the subtitles. You gotta remember that show!

This show was made strictly for Hawaii only. For years you could only find it on DVDs that could only be found in Hawaii. They had labels on them saying it was illegal to take them out of the islands. My Dad was able to get me a few that I still have today. Now... you can watch every season on YouTube.

The opening theme song has been permanently stuck in my head since 1st grade. I can still sing every word of it in Japanese... but I don't know all the translations for the words. LOL



View: https://youtu.be/ZPutTYvIhJk?si=QDywG87g6FtQnn6I

I remember Kikaida. But I lived in Kailua. We had no cable service when the show first came out (yeah, I'm old). We had an antenna that someone needed to spin around until the signal was ok. On a clear day, sometimes we got to watch the show. I finally watched the whole series on DVD some years ago. But yeah, good times.

 

[Classic Rams]

I remember Kikaida. But I lived in Kailua. We had no cable service when the show first came out (yeah, I'm old). We had an antenna that someone needed to spin around until the signal was ok. On a clear day, sometimes we got to watch the show. I finally watched the whole series on DVD some years ago. But yeah, good times.

My mistake it was KIKU back then later changed to KHNL in the 80's. We didn't have cable either when I was a kid. Palisades was one of the last to get that in the late 80's. KIKU was a newer channel on reg TV when it first aired in Hawaii. So we had a total of 5 free channels, the 3 main, PBS , and KIKU which played a lot of japanese content - but we were just there for the superhero stuff. Good to see a bunch of us Kikaida crazies are with the Rams!