Great to see all the fans from so many locations.
For those of you who don't know, this forum was started by someone not from LA or St Louis. He - like most of us - is just an avid Rams fan and he started this place as a place where Rams fans could be just that and feel like they were just BSing with friends. I want to thank
@-X- for doing that so many years ago. It is hard to believe it has been this long. While X is still around and active on his baby, it is now run as a much larger yet still tight community. A couple of guys own the site
(real cloak and dagger stuff so I don't know if they want to come out of the shadows) and a few of us continue to help out where we can.
That all said, I am from the San Fernando Valley originally - Canoga Park, right next to Northridge and I've come to bore many of you with a story I have told a couple times before.
When I was five years old my dad bought me a full kids uniform with the lint pads and all. I used to go out to our stucco wall in front of our house and ram the helmet so it would look like the ones worn by Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen - my two favorite Ram players at the time.
Over the years, I went to a few games with my dad or buddies. My family moved to the SLO area of CA and then my wife and I moved to the Portland, OR area in '89. The only game I could go to then was when the Rams played the AFC shecocks. When the Rams moved to St Louis, I tried to give up on the Rams. I was so pissed at Georgia Frontierre and John Shaw. But the first time I saw the horns on the helmets again, that dumb notion was all over. I had too much history with the Rams and my dad, my grandpa, sunny afternoons on the bleachers of the Coliseum watching my Rams shut down OJ Simson, etc...
I'm a third generation Rams fan and raised a fourth in my two boys. I have met a bunch of you over the years and had the great joy of buying tickets for my dad and two sons for the season opener of their last season in St Louis. It was great meeting a bunch of you out there when we came together for a memorial to one of our fallen ROD brothers,
@Thordaddy.
It has to be an incurable illness - being a Rams fan. So cheers to all my fellow sickos out there. :cheers:
Well, I knew there wasn't much fan support for the Rams in St. Louis, especially since all they did was lose, but I didn't think the poll would be this lopsided.
Looks like I'll be the lone Ram fan within a 50 mile radius celebrating when the they become consistent contenders in the next few years, lul.
There are still several out there and cheers to them all.
Oh and I will see my 1st game in person this Sunday. GO RAMS!
Good deal. Please post a report after the game.
Doesn't this forum have a map that shows where everyone is from , thought I saw it at one time.
Found the map
http://www.ramsondemand.com/memberMap/
Anyone who hasn't done so, add yourself to it. It's just a fun thing to see where Rams fans are concentrated. There are far more members here than show up on that map.
Don't think I had seen that before thanks - but surely there are more than that who frequent ROD?
Absolutely. We haven't discussed it in a long time so not many of our newish members even know it's there. Go to the dots beside CHAT at the top of the screen and it will drop down a menu where you can select it. Then just add your location.
My guess , many others have not seen the map either , or took the time to add their location
Yep
I even had the full kids uniform, helmet and all.
Blue and white?
Born in San Fernando County/ Van Nuys/ North Hollywood {LA} area. Developed into a fan while living in the Lompoc Ca area playing football in Jr High School (1967/1968).
Guess I kinda followed you around a bit. San Fernando Valley - lived in Canoga Park, my dad was a fireman at the Van Nuys airport station. Moved to Atascadero - just north of Lompoc - in '75 when I was entering Jr High.
