Rams Trivia String (answer a Q, then post your own)

[OC--LeftCoast]

Tom Mack, but when you actually watch the game on YouTube the penalty was called on backup TE Pat Curran.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_VqyinJ2Q&t=484s

I didn’t know that, coulda swore Enberg IDd Mack (Rams radio)

Thanks, I’ll definitely revisit that most painful snap

 

[den-the-coach]

Here is on of may favorites before Carroll Rosenbloom hired George Allen in 1978, he had focused on a College Head Coach and was very close in hiring this guy, before Allen finally agreed to just be the Head Coach and not have any executive powers.

Who was the college head coach back in 1978 that Rosenbloom liked and was close to hiring over George Allen?

 

[OC--LeftCoast]

Wild uneducated guess here

Pepper Rodgers?

 

[den-the-coach]

Wild uneducated guess here

Pepper Rodgers?

No, not Pepper from UCLA.

 

[David Ray]

Here is on of may favorites before Carroll Rosenbloom hired George Allen in 1978, he had focused on a College Head Coach and was very close in hiring this guy, before Allen finally agreed to just be the Head Coach and not have any executive powers.

Who was the college head coach back in 1978 that Rosenbloom liked and was close to hiring over George Allen?

Bill Walsh

 

[den-the-coach]

Bill Walsh

 

[David Ray]

Sure did and was replaced the following year after a few games by Bill Simpson, who was one heck of a Safety. Hadl had an awful game too and that was the beginning of him be traded the following year to Green Bay in favor of James Harris.

Hadl suffered a back injury in the 1973 game against GB and wasn't the same afterwards.

 

[den-the-coach]

Hadl suffered a back injury in the 1973 game against GB and wasn't the same afterwards.

Yeah I read that during a practice Rosenbloom watch Hadl's balls flutter and asked him what was wrong with his arm, and Hadl responded: "It's not my arm, it's my back." Hadl said a few weeks later, he was traded.

Great trade for the Rams as the Packers were set to actually acquire Archie Manning from the Saints, but Bobby Scott got hurt in the game and the Saints would not move Manning, so Devine went after Hadl.

Sad part, they kept Harris somewhat hamstrung with game plans, but Harris was the ultimate Jekyll & Hyde type of QB, just never very consistent. Jaworski was the best IMO of the three, but was not accurate and I have great disdain for Pat Haden and I will leave it at that. It's too bad Roman Gabriel wasn't younger as he would have been great under Knox, but every year Knox got more & more conservative.

 

[David Ray]

Yeah I read that during a practice Rosenbloom watch Hadl's balls flutter and asked him what was wrong with his arm, and Hadl responded: "It's not my arm, it's my back." Hadl said a few weeks later, he was traded.

Great trade for the Rams as the Packers were set to actually acquire Archie Manning from the Saints, but Bobby Scott got hurt in the game and the Saints would not move Manning, so Devine went after Hadl.

Sad part, they kept Harris somewhat hamstrung with game plans, but Harris was the ultimate Jekyll & Hyde type of QB, just never very consistent. Jaworski was the best IMO of the three, but was not accurate and I have great disdain for Pat Haden and I will leave it at that. It's too bad Roman Gabriel wasn't younger as he would have been great under Knox, but every year Knox got more & more conservative.

From what I remember, almost every time Jaws got a chance to play, he got hurt. Harris had a big arm but was a bit ponderous reading coverages, or so it seemed to me. Haden blew hot and cold. Prime example, in the '79 game at the Kingdome when the LA defense had a record setting day, Haden was playing lights out before he got hurt in that game. Besides the package the RAMS got in the Hadl trade, they cleaned up on the deal for Gabe, too. As for Knox, I've read Clutch quoted as not understanding why a QB sneak was called in the '76 championship game when there had been a couple plays that they'd used all season, to great success, in those situations. Of course, if Ron Jessie had been ruled to have broken the plane on that reverse, it wouldn't have mattered.

 

[dieterbrock]

The question was which other team did he catch 4 TD passes against in 1973.

I’m going to guess the answer is the 49ers....

 

[David Ray]

I’m going to guess the answer is the 49ers....

1 in the LA RAMS 40-20 route at Candlestick and 3 in the re(mis)match at the Coli.

 

[den-the-coach]

I’m going to guess the answer is the 49ers....

No it was the Dallas Cowboys.

 

[David Ray]

No it was the Dallas Cowboys.

Look back through the thread and you'll understand the answer to the question is the whiners.

 

[den-the-coach]

Look back through the thread and you'll understand the answer to the question is the whiners.

Okay, no worries, I thought you were asking about Harold Jackson's 4 TD catches against Dallas Cowboys back in October of 1973 in their 37-31 victory.

 

[David Ray]

Okay, no worries, I thought you were asking about Harold Jackson's 4 TD catches against Dallas Cowboys back in October of 1973 in their 37-31 victory.

Yes, that was what I referenced when I asked which other team did he have 4 TD receptions against in 1973. There was one response that insisted he had not done with it pointed out he had the 3 TD game but it was overlooked that he had 1 in the 1st meeting, hence 4 in 1973.

 

[dieterbrock]

1 in the LA RAMS 40-20 route at Candlestick and 3 in the re(mis)match at the Coli.

Ok since I somewhat got that correct....
What QB did the Rams draft in 1986?

 

[David Ray]

Ok since I somewhat got that correct....
What QB did the Rams draft in 1986?

Hugh Millen. Which brings up a fond memory. I had end zone seats for the RAMS whitewashing of the Falcons in Atlanta in 1988. At one point, ATL had their one legitimate scoring threat on the day with a 1st and goal at the end of the field where I was seated. As the Falcons set up shop, I began exhorting them to "kick the field goal, NOW", at the top of my lungs. Prior to each play in the sequence, I bellowed the same exhortation and when the Falcons brain trust ignored my advice (imagine that), they ended up getting stopped on 4th and goal with the shutout remaining intact. I'd had a few adult beverages, OK. Anyway, another gem I remember yelling, with the aforementioned Mr. Millen at this time in the employ of the Falcons and not faring well at all in his efforts to steward the Atlanta offense on this day was, "he's a PLANT!" Fond memories, indeed.

 

[dieterbrock]

Hugh Millen. Which brings up a fond memory. I had end zone seats for the RAMS whitewashing of the Falcons in Atlanta in 1988. At one point, ATL had their one legitimate scoring threat on the day with a 1st and goal at the end of the field where I was seated. As the Falcons set up shop, I began exhorting them to "kick the field goal, NOW", at the top of my lungs. Prior to each play in the sequence, I bellowed the same exhortation and when the Falcons brain trust ignored my advice (imagine that), they ended up getting stopped on 4th and goal with the shutout remaining intact. I'd had a few adult beverages, OK. Anyway, another gem I remember yelling, with the aforementioned Mr. Millen at this time in the employ of the Falcons and not faring well at all in his efforts to steward the Atlanta offense on this day was, "he's a PLANT!" Fond memories, indeed.

So Part II, (and I know you know this already) who was Hugh Millen's backup in college? Had some High's and lows in the NFL...

 

[Classic Rams]

Yes, that was what I referenced when I asked which other team did he have 4 TD receptions against in 1973. There was one response that insisted he had not done with it pointed out he had the 3 TD game but it was overlooked that he had 1 in the 1st meeting, hence 4 in 1973.

Trick question! I thought you meant in one game but I get it now after you explained it. I'm not so good at riddles. When my dad starts doling them out I let my nephews rack their brains.

 

[David Ray]

So Part II, (and I know you know this already) who was Hugh Millen's backup in college? Had some High's and lows in the NFL...

I loved watching him march ATL to the game-tying TD in the 1998 NFC title game at the Metrodome, with the Dirty Birds going on to deny the minute scrotum bi-queens a Super Bowl berth by converting a FG in OT. And that reminds me of a couple things from the 1998 season as it developed. Even though I live in Georgia, and have since 1964, I became a RAMS fan when I first started watching NFL football in December of 1967. And the Falcons, as a division rival, got no love from me unless they were playing the queens. As that season was playing out, I remember telling a couple coworkers that if it came down to it, I'd be pulling for ATL if they were to meet minnesota in a postseason confrontation. In fact, another fellow whom worked under the same contract was a Minnesota native and I made a general statement to him that I didn't think the queens had a championship caliber defense while also inquiring if Randall Cunningham had as big a windup as Hideo Nomo. Then, after the season had concluded and the playoffs were on the horizon, I was at a friend's residence and he was reading a print newspaper (it was 1998) and he came to a passage in an article about the queens and he exclaimed, regarding placekicker Gary Anderson. that "he hasn't missed a kick all year"! At that very moment, my solar plexus (where our 2nd brain is located) was TRIGGERED and I IMMEDIATELY responded, "he's GOING to miss one and it's going to BITE THEM IN THE ASS"!
Well, when you take into account Chris Chandler, playing on an injured wheel, was able to march ATL to the tying score in the waning moments of regulation against that defense, that Cunningham had the ball stripped from him as he was winding up to throw downfield in the latter stages of the 1st half, leading to an ATL TD and that (I'm going to enjoy watching you DIE) Mr. Anderson missed what could have been a game-clinching field goal, I'd say that my predictions (born of my heartfelt belief that every bad thing that happens to the queens is KARMA for all the BS the RAMS had to endure associated with the years 1969-1977), were accurate or, you could say it was one two three strikes and the queens were OUT!