Ram Fan Bonafides

[RamsOfCastamere]

Fucking Danario Alexander...

It was supposed to be our first time going to the playoffs in years and we could not connect with this motherfucker at all. Instead, the Seahawks win the division at 7-9....

 

[Loyal]

Fucking Danario Alexander...

It was supposed to be our first time going to the playoffs in years and we could not connect with this motherfucker at all. Instead, the Seahawks win the division at 7-9....

bone on bone bro....I don't think I could play that well myself under that pain.... ~ Isaac Bruce

 

[Loyal]

I think the point of this thread, was suffering players who tested your fanhood and not favorite players....

 

[OC--LeftCoast]

So I've been a fan for 40+ years, even if only tangentially in the mid-90s and '00s. When I get push-back on my fandom (not often but it has happened on other forums in the past) and I have to "prove" my bonafides I respond with one name:

TJ Rubley.

Whats the most excruciating experience/player/coach that you've endured as a fan that proves your attachment to the Rams?

(Just a mental exercise and something I figured would be fun to hear from folks about)

TJ Rubley...

Wow

Just like 1000 plus likes for the mere mention of his name

 

[Wisconsinram]

I'm old, but still surprised no Dieter Brock mention! Thought he was going to be our savior.

 

[Alaskan Ram]

Sam Bradford not getting votes surprises me a bit.

 

[Loyal]

Sam Bradford not getting votes surprises me a bit.

mental block, damn you...Now I have to think of him again!

 

[Dieter the Brock]

I'm old, but still surprised no Dieter Brock mention! Thought he was going to be our savior.

Well......
I came over from Ram Stalk and my username was Dieter the Brock, when I signed up years and years ago I was gonna go by 47Gap, but at the last minute went with ol’ trusty Dieter the Brock only to find that there was already @dieterbrock on the board. I asked the mods to change it to 47Gap and was denied

 

[Dieter the Brock]

Not a player memory, but in 1980 when I was 16 and the Rams moved to Anaheim, I had my first "real" job (i.e. not doing yardwork under the table, but needing a SS card) hawking food in the stands at Anaheim stadium at Rams games. When you are a 110 or so pound 16 year old, toting 50 pounds or so of malted ice cream in a cooler dangling from your neck in the nosebleed seats, that is hard work. But we stopped selling food after the third quarter, so I could check out, find an empty seat, and watch the end of the game.

Great stuff
On that same Anaheim Stadium tip, do any of you guys remember the Fire-Throwing Baton Guy? He freakin’ ruled.

Georgia Frontnreari was so cheap!!! Remember for a few years they had that mascot? It was a male sheep with this big nut sack, and had a satin Rams thing over it’s back. I mean it had horns but looked nothing like a “Ram.” They’d drag it around before the game. Then she always had the Los Alamitos High School marching band at half-time. If it was a good week we’d get the Frisbee Dog.

We used to sit on the visitors side on the 30 next to the band. Me and my dad sat there for years. We were surrounded by the worst fans of all time. They’d get pissed if I’d cheer too loud..... they were Ram fans too.

One season my dad’s buddy who was loaded and had the best seats on the Home side in the shade had invited us to take up his two extra seats. So one game - me and my dad were heckling John Robinson and how he’d bend over and grab his pants all the time and run up the middle for a 3 and out, and every time we did some buffed-out grey haired guy would turn around and give us dirty looks. So me being all obnoxious kept going, well the dude freaked out and ran up and tried to kick my ass - now I had to be 12 or 13 and this was a grown man in great shape — so my dad had to jump in, the guy told me he’d rip my head off if I said anything about John Robinson again. Needless to say I remained silent for the rest of the game. We found out when he apologized the next home game that his daughter married John Robinson. Hahahahha. He was John Robinson’s freaking step dad and he had to be 10 years younger. Anyway, my dad’s friend didn’t invite us back the next season. Back to the visitors side we went.

 

[SteveBrown]

Gaston Green
Aaron Cox
Fred Strickland
Frank Stams
Brian Smith
Bill Hawkins
Cleveland Gary
Anthony Newman


All guys drafted post Dickerson trade. Not all with the Dickerson picks, but the two draft classes that were supposed to rebuild the Rams. Those guys were all picks in the top 3 rounds.

The only real hit was Flipper Anderson.

Strickland was a very good player....very good...broke his leg in Cicago 1990, right? I was there, I think.....

 

[Farr Be It]

Great stuff
On that same Anaheim Stadium tip, do any of you guys remember the Fire-Throwing Baton Guy? He freakin’ ruled.

Georgia Frontnreari was so cheap!!! Remember for a few years they had that mascot? It was a male sheep with this big nut sack, and had a satin Rams thing over it’s back. I mean it had horns but looked nothing like a “Ram.” They’d drag it around before the game. Then she always had the Los Alamitos High School marching band at half-time. If it was a good week we’d get the Frisbee Dog.

We used to sit on the visitors side on the 30 next to the band. Me and my dad sat there for years. We were surrounded by the worst fans of all time. They’d get pissed if I’d cheer too loud..... they were Ram fans too.

One season my dad’s buddy who was loaded and had the best seats on the Home side in the shade had invited us to take up his two extra seats. So one game - me and my dad were heckling John Robinson and how he’d bend over and grab his pants all the time and run up the middle for a 3 and out, and every time we did some buffed-out grey haired guy would turn around and give us dirty looks. So me being all obnoxious kept going, well the dude freaked out and ran up and tried to kick my ass - now I had to be 12 or 13 and this was a grown man in great shape — so my dad had to jump in, the guy told me he’d rip my head off if I said anything about John Robinson again. Needless to say I remained silent for the rest of the game. We found out when he apologized the next home game that his daughter married John Robinson. Hahahahha. He was John Robinson’s freaking step dad and he had to be 10 years younger. Anyway, my dad’s friend didn’t invite us back the next season. Back to the visitors side we went.

That’s a great story. you obnoxious little sh!t!!

My dad had season tickets during the Anaheim years. Funny. A lot of us on the forum are around the same age. I was 14-15 and would fly down from the Bay Area once or twice a year with dad to go see a game. One year we drove down and saw Dickerson play. We stayed at the old Doubletree across the overpass and walk over. Then we had that dreaded 8 hour drive home. I felt bad, the Rams lost, then my dad had to drive back Sunday night for school/ work in the morning.

I was too young to help split the drive. I remembered we stopped at that Denny’s just over the grapevine and dad downed a bunch of coffee for the long drive.

 

[payote75]

Todd lyght
eddie Kennison
Trung candidate

 

[Karate61]

Remember for a few years they had that mascot? It was a male sheep with this big nut sack, and had a satin Rams thing over it’s back. I mean it had horns but looked nothing like a “Ram.”

My dad bought season tickets the minute they went on sale at Anaheim. I even went to the first preseason game at Anaheim.

One game, that girl with the ram (or male sheep...lol) came around near our endzone seats. I was like 14 or 15 years old. I ran up acting like I wanted to pet that Ram, but reached over and planted a kiss on that Ram chick. The crowd cheered and, for a moment, I "thought" I was a stud! lol

 

[Karate61]

I'll reach back to the early eighties and go with Dan Pastorini!

My step mom hated him, and she brought a sign to a game that read "NO PASS PASTORINI!". She thought that was the greatest sign ever...lol.

 

[fearsomefour]

Cleveland Gary -

Everyone talked about his talent and he did well, but I disliked his run style, his look and even his number. Bell was similar too.

He had a fumbling problem.
I remember being in the upper deck at the Big A and yelling for the rookie Bettis

 

[fearsomefour]

Todd lyght
eddie Kennison
Trung candidate

Todd Lyght was a stud.

 

[fearsomefour]

I actually like TJ Rubley.
He wasn’t that great but at least could be entertaining to watch at times from the cheap seats.
I was fooled badly by FA signings.
Ernie Jones and Jessie Hester would catch passes....
Robert Young and Fred Stokes would get the pass rush going....
Shane Conlan wasn’t too old....Leo Goeas was the next Tom Newberry....
The name that brings the Big A misery back the most is Mike Pagel.....
Pagel made a fan enjoy TJ Rubley.

 

[MauiRam]

How about Elvis Peacock the 20th pick in round one by the Rams a few years back (1978) ?

 

[CGI_Ram]

I have been haunted by this, since the day it happened. I’ll never forget that draft day.

This would probably be the only draft choice I thought at the time I was certain we got wrong.

My only hope was Eddie would at least be good enough that it would be a debate. That lasted like 1 season.

 

[Faceplant]

Anyone remember June Henley?

I have to say that watching Dieter fucking Brock tested my Fandom pretty good. We were a QB away from being a really good team in 85. Probably not good enough to win that NFCCG against the Bears, but good enough to have made it interesting.

Honerable mention to Bert Jones and Lawrence fucking Phillips..... Oh and Chris Miller and Crystal Chandelier....... I could go on all day.