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[David Ray]

Pro Football HOF induction in 1999 after a 13 year NFL career spent exclusively with the LA RAMS.

 

[RamFan503]

Pro Football HOF induction in 1999 after a 13 year NFL career spent exclusively with the LA RAMS.

That last uniform was the style and color my dad bought for me for my fifth birthday.

 

[David Ray]

This guy would have worn the green dot if that was a thing back then

 

[Ground Chuck]

Kent Hill was amazing, but was needed in the deal to ensure the acquisition of QB Jim Everett, which was huge. Rookie Tom Newberry replaced Hill and Newberry was very good, but not as good as Hill.

I love the little details you add to the Rams history Denny. I appreciate you, brother.

Wish I could remember those details. Especially the guys in the trenches. We were so spoiled for decades. So many studs on the Oline. Something happened in the '90's and mid 2000's.

 

[Ground Chuck]

Drafted as Robert Cox, changed his surname to Jenkins and IMO was not as good after the name change.

So Den, you're saying once he lopped off his "Cox" he wasn't half the man he used to be? I concur

Pro Football HOF induction in 1999 after a 13 year NFL career spent exclusively with the LA RAMS.

Hacksaw should have taken a clue from the classy Tom Mack in this regard.

 

[den-the-coach]

So Den, you're saying once he lopped off his "Cox" he wasn't half the man he used to be? I concur

It was just really odd to me as I had a good friend in high school named Billy Cox, there was the actor Ronny Cox, plus Hollywood Square Actor Wally Cox also the baseball manager Bobby Cox, just did not understand why you went to Jenkins and back then, it just was not done that often.

However, seemed to have some upside as Robert Cox and then when he changed his name just did not seem that good.


Drafted in the sixth round from UCLA, Robert Cox spent 8 seasons with the Rams and two more with the Raiders. However, sometime after his rookie year, Robert Cox changed his name to Robert Jenkins

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[den-the-coach]

I love the little details you add to the Rams history Denny.

Wow Chuck, usually I get offered wine first before people start calling me Denny.

 

[Merlin]

Ah, no one posted yesterday's?? It would be a travesty to bypass none other than 1/2 of the SB34-winning donut brothers:

The last face witnessed by so many krispy cremes. The horror.

 

[Ground Chuck]

Wow Chuck, usually I get offered wine first before people start calling me Denny.

That's two-buck Chuck to you my friend. Nothing but top shelf for you!

 

[David Ray]

LT Joe Carollo. He, along with RG Joe Scibelli, LG Tom Mack and RT Charlie Cowan were all given Pro Bowl honors for the 1968 NFL Season.

 

[den-the-coach]

Horton hears a who....Rams Greg Horton

Mike Lansford Dad, Alex "Buck" Lansford. Not really, but fun.

Wish Rams had kept this guy...Austin Corbett

Darrell Williams

Scott Wells

And who can forget our Long Snapper in the 80's, Mike McDonald, who John Robinson reached out to because he remembered him at USC and when the Rams called, McDonald was painting houses.

 

[David Ray]

Don Chuy was the starter at LG in 1966. Then he was injured and a rookie from Michigan took over and Don didn't get his job back.

 

[Allen2McVay]

Don Chuy was the starter at LG in 1966. Then he was injured and a rookie from Michigan took over and Don didn't get his job back.

And the rookie (Tom Mack) went on to play 13 seasons, with 11 Pro Bowls ... 4X 1st Team All Pro ... 4X 2nd Team ... missed 0 games in his career ... ZERO ... and has a bust in the Hall of Fame.

I always felt bad that Mack retired after 1978 ... one year before the Rams finally made a Super Bowl.

 

[David Ray]

And the rookie (Tom Mack) went on to play 13 seasons, with 11 Pro Bowls ... 4X 1st Team All Pro ... 4X 2nd Team ... missed 0 games in his career ... ZERO ... and has a bust in the Hall of Fame.

I always felt bad that Mack retired after 1978 ... one year before the Rams finally made a Super Bowl.

Mack had an engineering degree and that was related to a job offer he got that would not have been there if he waited too long. I do see info on the web that he became a lobbyist for Bechtel Group, Inc. in his retirement so that may have been the firm he went to work for in 1979.
And, HE DID NOT MOVE!!!!

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[fanotodd]

And the rookie (Tom Mack) went on to play 13 seasons, with 11 Pro Bowls ... 4X 1st Team All Pro ... 4X 2nd Team ... missed 0 games in his career ... ZERO ... and has a bust in the Hall of Fame.

I always felt bad that Mack retired after 1978 ... one year before the Rams finally made a Super Bowl.

Wally Pipp/Lou Gehrig move over!

 

[Allen2McVay]

Mack had an engineering degree and that was related to a job offer he got that would not have been there if he waited too long.

Did not know about the non-football job opportunity ... even though the NFL didn't pay well back then,
Tom Mack was the 2nd overall pick (I live three blocks away from the hotel where the 1966 Draft was held), so I would be surprised if he had not given the NFL a good chance.

Glad he stuck with football.

Have a good story about that hotel I referenced above (Summit Hotel back in the day). I had a first cousin that was 20 years older than me, and was an NYC cop in the late-60s and 1970s. One of his partners (Mike) was a family friend for many years. There's a precinct around the corner from that Hotel.

Very early on a Sunday morning in late-December 1968, Mike was getting-off a night shift and walks by the hotel on his way to the precinct. Sees a beautiful young blonde ('Dressed to the Nines' Mike would say) in a tiny mini-dress (very popular in the day) coming-out of the Hotel (a top-end hotel back then).

Who is with this gorgeous blonde?
None other than Jets' star-QB ... Broadway Joe Namath ... although this hotel was on Lexington Avenue.

Namath was quite the ladies' man, so this would have been a cute little story but for one fact. In a couple hours, the New York Jets were going to play the Oakland Raiders, with the winner going to the Super Bowl.

Mike was a Jets' fan but this was all he needed to know. If Namath was with this woman and stumbling-out of a hotel a few hours before the biggest game of his life, the Jets could NOT possibly win. Mike went to a bookie he knew and bet one week's paycheck on the Raiders.

My cousins, father and uncles knew this story well before I heard it as a teenager 8-10 years later.

Mike would always smile and say he was 'Never so happy to lose bet.'

 

[David Ray]

Wally Pipp/Lou Gehrig move over!

Yeah, it has that feel.

 

[den-the-coach]

One of my all time favorites...Bill Bain

He turned around the Rams and one of the all time best free agent signings, Adam Timmerman

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